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.

DSEI: Parvus to Debut Rugged Ethernet Switch Subsystem

Parvus Corporation, a Cisco Solutions Technology Integrator (STI), will introduce the DuraNET 30-2020 at DSEI. DURAnet 30-2020 is an ultra-rugged 19-port Cisco...

Sep 09, 2013
Raytheon Demonstrates Accuracy of Stinger Trainer in Finland VSHORADS field trials

Raytheon Company’s Stinger demonstrated flawless performance in recent Very Short Range Air Defense System (SHORADS) field trials in Finland. During...

Sep 09, 2013
Northrop Grumman to Develop Cyber Visualisation Tools as Part of UK Research Program

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been retained by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to carry out a further phase...

Sep 09, 2013
Raytheon moves forward on DARPA Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) Program

Raytheon Company is moving forward with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on the agency’s Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS)...

Sep 09, 2013
Wyle Wins Contract to Support U.S. Army Unmanned Aircraft and Fixed Wing Systems

Wyle has been awarded an $18.5 million contract to support U.S. Army unmanned aircraft systems and fixed wing programs including...

Sep 09, 2013
Video: Multicopter Beer Delivery

UK aerial film production company, Out Filming, has produced a promotional video for a beach-front bar using a quadcopter and...

Sep 09, 2013
DSEI 2013: ITT Corp Will Exhibit Innovative Solutions for Unmanned Systems

ITT Corporation will highlight the latest technology solutions aimed at solving complex defense safety challenges at DSEI Defense and Security...

Sep 06, 2013
DSEI 2013: UTC Aerospace Systems To Highlight Latest UAV Technologies for Defense

UTC Aerospace Systems will showcase a range of established, market-leading products alongside key new developments for the defense market at...

Sep 06, 2013
DSEI 2013: Exelis to Showcase Advanced Defense and Security Capabilities for Unmanned Systems

Exelis will showcase industry-leading defense and security technologies at the 2013 DSEI Conference at the ExCel London Exhibition and Convention...

Sep 06, 2013
Schiebel and FLIR Integrate Polytec Ab Corona 350 Sensor onto Camcopter S-100 UAS

Schiebel and FLIR Systems Polytec AB are proud to announce the successful integration of the Schiebel CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air...

Sep 06, 2013
Clearpath Robotics Nominated For People’s Choice Award

Clearpath Robotics is in the running for the 2013 People’s Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite Companies; a feature in the...

Sep 05, 2013
AMREL Announces New Enhanced ROCKY Rugged Tablets

American Reliance, Inc. (AMREL) revealed major upgrades for its line of fully rugged tablets. The new ROCKY DR10 8.4″ and...

Sep 05, 2013
SimActive Launches New UAV Version of Correlator3D™

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce the launch of a new UAV version of...

Sep 05, 2013
Video: Microdrones md4-1000 Alps Crossing – the Making of

As reported earlier this year, this summer the microdrones md4-1000 achieved something no other quadcopter had previously done. The unmanned aerial...

Sep 04, 2013
DSEI 2013: Northrop Grumman To Showcase Unmanned, Defence and Security Capabilities

Northrop Grumman Corporation will highlight its capabilities in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence (C4I), border security, unmanned ground systems, cyber...

Sep 04, 2013
EURO HAWK UAS Completes Record-Breaking 25-Hour Nonstop Flight

The EURO HAWK® unmanned aircraft system (UAS) set an endurance record Aug. 8 when it flew continuously for 25.3 hours...

Sep 04, 2013
Saab Seaeye Looks to Strengthen ROV Portfolio With Acquisition of Hydro-Lek

Saab Seaeye, a wholly owned subsidiary of defence and security company Saab, has acquired Hydro-Lek Limited, a UK manipulator and...

Sep 04, 2013
COTS Ethernet Switching Solutions Now Essential in Space-Constrained UGVs

Robots have long been an essential component of industrial production and domestic law enforcement. Updated and multifunctional Unmanned Ground Vehicles...

Sep 04, 2013
NovAtel® Introduces Commercial Tactical Grade MEMS IMU

Today at Oceanology International (Oi) China, NovAtel announced the addition of Sensonor’s commercially exportable OEM-IMU-STIM300 to its SPAN® GNSS + INS...

Sep 03, 2013
NORBIT Selects NovAtel SPAN for Integration into the NORBIT iWBMS Compact Bathymetry Sonar

NovAtel announced today at Oceanology International (Oi) China, that NORBIT has selected NovAtel’s Synchronized Position Attitude Navigation (SPAN) product for...

Sep 03, 2013
Mainstream Engineering Awarded USAF Contract for Hybrid Electric UAV Propulsion System

Mainstream Engineering Corporation, a 27-year-old Brevard County research and manufacturing company, has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air...

Sep 03, 2013
ASV’s C-Stat 2 completes final acceptance with Tohoku University

In early August 2013 a team from ASV oversaw the successful completion of the C-Stat 2 acceptance trials for Tohoku University around...

Sep 02, 2013
ASV recruits experts from the Navy and Oceanographic world

With more vehicles in build at any one time than ever before, unmanned marine system producer Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV)...

Sep 01, 2013
PX4 and 3D Robotics Launch New Pixhawk Autopilot for UAVs

The PX4 Project and 3D Robotics have announced the arrival of Pixhawk — an advanced open-hardware autopilot design for multirotors,...

Aug 30, 2013
World Surveillance Group Establishes Consortium to Develop and Commercialize Argus One LTA UAV

World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air aerostats and unmanned aerial systems, has signed a teaming agreement with three...

Aug 30, 2013
FLIR Systems Wins $137m Contract to Supply BRITE Star Imaging Systems to U.S. Navy

FLIR Systems, Inc. has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane...

Aug 30, 2013
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.