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.

Insitu Common Open-mission Management Control System Flies Integrator UAS

Insitu Inc. have announced that the Insitu Common Open-mission Management Command and Control (ICOMC2) system flew its Integrator Unmanned Aircraft...

Jul 10, 2012
MBDA To Announce UAV Strike Weapons Concept

MBDA is this week unveiling an innovative concept weapon system for 2030, CVS301 VIGILUS. VIGILUS is a suite of future...

Jul 10, 2012
AAI Awarded $358 Million for Upgraded U.S. Army and Marine Corps RQ-7B Shadow TUAS

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that it has received...

Jul 10, 2012
Taranis Unmanned Combat Air System Completes Tests Ahead of 2013 Flight Trials

Taranis, the UK’s unmanned combat air system technology demonstrator, has successfully completed a series of key tests on the way...

Jul 09, 2012
Mantis UAS Concept Demonstrator Targeted to Fly in the UK

BAE Systems has announced its intention to re-fly the Mantis UAS Concept Demonstrator – this time in UK airspace. This...

Jul 09, 2012
Space Florida Selects ENSCO for UAS Initiative

Space Florida – the State of Florida’s spaceport authority and aerospace economic development agency – has selected ENSCO, Inc. –...

Jul 09, 2012
Boeing Introduces Intelligent Sensor Camera System

The Boeing Company today introduced its Intelligent Sensor, a new camera system that provides defense and security customers with fully...

Jul 09, 2012
Swedish FMV Select Kratos Composite Engineering, Inc. to Provide Unmanned Aerial Target Systems

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, has announced that its newly acquired subsidiary, Composite...

Jul 09, 2012
Insitu Pacific to Supply ScanEagle UAS to Republic of Singapore Navy

Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it was awarded a contract to provide its ScanEagle...

Jul 09, 2012
Small Honing Beacon Increases UAV Cargo Delivery Accuracy

Lockheed Martin has developed a small honing beacon to help increase the accuracy of cargo drops by UAVs. The beacon...

Jul 09, 2012
Volusia County and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Consider Testing UAVs

The skies over rural northwest Volusia County could be getting busier in coming weeks, with a proposed county agreement with...

Jul 09, 2012
Ecrin Systems Release Small Rugged Computer for Manned and Unmanned Aircraft

Ecrin Systems has released a new rugged computer specifically targeted to space-constrained environments such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), ground...

Jul 08, 2012
UAV Factory Achieves Record 54-Hour Flight with Penguin B UAV

UAV Factory has expanded the boundaries of their unmanned aircraft vehicle capability by performing a nonstop 54 hour and 27...

Jul 08, 2012
Meggitt & CCUVS Discuss Unmanned Aircraft System Initiative

Representatives from the Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems and Meggitt Canada were in Foremost, Canada on Thursday to provide...

Jul 07, 2012
U.S Navy Unmanned Surface Vehicle Contracts Awarded to QinetiQ and Gibbs & Cox

Qinetiq North America Inc, and Gibbs & Cox Inc have each been awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for design and...

Jul 07, 2012
Israeli Air Force Tests Skills of UAV Squadrons

This week, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) held a competition testing the skill levels of its various unmanned aerial vehicle...

Jul 06, 2012
Pressure-Tolerant ROV Successfully Tested in the Deep Atlantic

A new pressure-tolerant ROV named Erno2, designed by Enitech GmbH (Rostock, Germany), has been successfully tested within the framework of...

Jul 06, 2012
RE2, Inc. Wins JIEDDO Endurance Challenge with ForeRunner UGV

RE2, Inc. announced today that the Company’s ForeRunner Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) won the Endurance Challenge, Dismounted Support Category at...

Jul 04, 2012
UAS Developer Emmen Aerospace Joins The BOSH Group

Emmen Aerospace, Inc. (Emmen) has announced that it will rebrand to become BOSH Technologies, a member of The BOSH Group...

Jul 04, 2012
Thales and ASV To Develop New Unmanned Surface Vehicle

Thales UK has signed a contract with Autonomous Surface Vehicles Ltd (ASV Ltd) to develop a re-configurable Unmanned Surface Vehicle...

Jul 03, 2012
U.S. Army UAS will fly in National Air Space by March 2014

By March 2014, the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, a U.S. Army unmanned aerial system, will be able to train in the...

Jul 03, 2012
Elbit Systems will Showcase Latest UAS Technology at Farnborough 2012

A broad spectrum of Elbit Systems innovative solutions designed for the changing requirements of the defense industry will be on...

Jul 03, 2012
AUVSI Publishes “Code of Conduct” for UAS Operations

AUVSI has published the “Unmanned Aircraft System Operations Industry Code of Conduct” www.auvsi.org/conduct, a set of guidelines to provide AUVSI...

Jul 03, 2012
Kratos Acquires Aerial Drone and Targets Provider Composite Engineering, Inc.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, has announced that it has completed its acquisition...

Jul 03, 2012
ITT Exelis Expands Portfolio of Sensor-to-decision Solutions with Acquisition

ITT Exelis has completed the acquisition of Space Computer Corporation, a privately-owned firm that produces real time signal processing systems,...

Jul 02, 2012
Northrop Grumman Awarded U.S. Air Force Global Hawk Deployment Contract

The US Air Force (USAF) has contracted Northrop Grumman to maintain deployment of three E-11 Global Express aircraft and three...

Jul 02, 2012
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