Unmanned Systems News & Articles

The latest unmanned systems news for UAV, UAS, UGV, USV, UUV, drones and robotics. Articles on product launches and technological advances in unmanned and autonomous design, research and manufacture.

Foremay Launches Avalanche® Military Secure Erase for SSD Drives

Foremay, Inc., a leader of technology innovation in rugged solid state drives and one of the world’s top SSD OEMs,...

Nov 12, 2013
Rapid Equipping Force Places $4.5M Order for Prioria Robotics’ Maveric UAS

Prioria Robotics, Inc., developers of tactical Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) has been awarded several contracts totaling $4.5 million by...

Nov 11, 2013
Northrop Grumman to Supply U.S. Air Force With Three More RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $114 million advance procurement contract in preparation to build three...

Nov 08, 2013
CoroWare Launch New High-Capacity Robotic Arm

CoroWare Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of CoroWare, Inc., have announced availability and pricing for the CoroBot® RA-144™ Robotic Arm,...

Nov 08, 2013
NovAtel Inc. Launches NovAtel CORRECT OEM Positioning Solution

NovAtel Inc, the world’s leading OEM provider of high precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning products, today announced the...

Nov 08, 2013
Gladiator Technologies Announces Improved Performance Rugged G200 Dual Axis Gyro

Gladiator Technologies announced today release of their improved G200 Dual Axis Gyro. This enhanced model builds upon the successful heritage...

Nov 07, 2013
MTSI Expands UAS Services into the Commercial UAS Marketplace

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI), a leading systems engineering provider in the Government Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) domain, has announced...

Nov 06, 2013
MtronPTI Introduces New Ultra-Compact Filter Diplexer for UAV Comm Links

MtronPTI, leader in precision frequency control and custom RF/microwave filters, has announced the LF9422 Series L/S Band Filter Diplexer reducing...

Nov 06, 2013
Exelis to Produce MQ-9 Reaper UAS Carriage and Release System

Exelis has been awarded a $20.6 million contract by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. of Poway, Calif., to produce the...

Nov 06, 2013
Rockwell Collins Unveils Simulation and Training Center of Excellence in the UK

Rockwell Collins has unveiled a new simulation and training center of excellence in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, U.K. The company...

Nov 06, 2013
CyPhy Works Raises $7 Million to Build Flying Robots

CyPhy Works, a leading developer of advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), today announced the close of a $7 million financing...

Nov 06, 2013
Arcturus Integrates WGS Europa-S SIGINT System on T-20 UAV

The Europa-S Signal Intercept and Geolocation System, built by WGS Systems in Frederick, Maryland, has now been integrated and flown...

Nov 04, 2013
Aitech Launch Rugged GPGPU for C4ISR, Advanced Sensor Processing

Aitech Defense Systems Inc., a pioneer in true rugged embedded and mission critical computing technologies, has released a 3U VPX...

Nov 04, 2013
ING Robotic Aviation, iFMS to Showcase Serenity UAS at International Forestry Convention

ING Robotic Aviation will showcase their fixed wing robotic aircraft system, Serenity, in collaboration with iFMS, at this years 2013...

Nov 04, 2013
Northrop Grumman, Triumph Aerostructures Demonstrate Triton UAS Wing Strength

Northrop Grumman Corp. and Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division, have successfully demonstrated the structural strength of the U.S. Navy’s...

Nov 04, 2013
Video: Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout First Flight

The Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter successfully completed its first flight on Oct. 31 from Naval Base Ventura...

Nov 04, 2013
Next-Generation MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter Completes First Flight

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy successfully completed the first flight of the next-generation MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter...

Nov 01, 2013
Omnetics’ Line of Miniature Connectors Provide Up to 2 Gigabit/Second Speed in Highly Rugged Environments

Omnetics’ Nano miniature connectors are designed and connected to impedance-controlled cable systems to provide high-quality signal integrity for high-speed Gigabit...

Nov 01, 2013
Bluefin Robotics and NRL Complete Long-Endurance UUV Mission

Bluefin Robotics, in support of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has successfully completed a long-endurance UUV mission from Boston to...

Oct 31, 2013
CybAero to Supply Additional Subsystems for Cassidian Tanan 300 VTOL UAV

CybAero has received an order from Cassidian, a subsidary of EADS, to supply subsystems for use on the Tanan 300...

Oct 31, 2013
GA-ASI Demonstrates Predator B’s Electronic Attack capability

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has completed a second demonstration of Predator® B’s Electronic Attack capability, conducted at the...

Oct 31, 2013
KVH Introduces DSP-1760 Multi-axis Fiber Optic Gyro

KVH Industries, Inc. has introduced a new multi-axis fiber optic gyro (FOG), the DSP-1760. The breakthrough design of the DSP-1760,...

Oct 30, 2013
New Profile for LORD MicroStrain: Inertial Sensors, DVRTs & Wireless Sensor Networks

LORD MicroStrain, who design and manufacture a wide range of inertial sensors, DVRTs and wireless sensor network solutions, has a...

Oct 30, 2013
FreeWave Technologies Hosts Local Unmanned Systems Education And Networking Event

FreeWave Technologies, the innovator in industrial-grade secure M2M wireless networking solutions, will host an unmanned systems event at its Boulder,...

Oct 29, 2013
Elbit Skylark I-LE Mini-UAS Tested with Imint Vidview Software

The Swedish software company Imint and the Israeli Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) provider Elbit Systems UAS division field tested new software in...

Oct 29, 2013
Pentek Introduces Wideband Software Radio Module for UAV, Radar and Communications Applications

Pentek, Inc., has announced the newest member of its highly popular Onyx® family of high-speed data converter XMC FPGA modules:...

Oct 29, 2013
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