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.

NEANY Inc. Ranked Third in the U.S. for 8(A) Prime Contractors
NEANY Inc. Ranked Third in the U.S. for 8(A) Prime Contractors

NEANY, Inc., a minority owned SBA 8(a) certified research, development, test and evaluation engineering firm headquartered in Hollywood, MD, has...

Oct 25, 2012
Motor-Operated Pilot Valve Exceeds Navy’s Strict Performance Specs
Motor-Operated Pilot Valve Exceeds Navy’s Strict Performance Specs

Premature failure of pilot valves in shipboard firefighting systems was a major issue for the U.S. Navy, prompting it to...

Oct 24, 2012
TECOM Wins Contract to Supply Expeditionary Ground Control Stations to AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems
TECOM Wins Contract to Supply Expeditionary Ground Control Stations to AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems

TECOM Industries, Inc. a Smiths Interconnect business, is pleased to announce the award of a firm fixed price contract from...

Oct 24, 2012
MOD Clarifies Use of British Reaper UAVs in Afghanistan
MOD Clarifies Use of British Reaper UAVs in Afghanistan

The Guardian yesterday has claimed that the Royal Air Force (RAF) has to make an urgent purchase of five more...

Oct 24, 2012
Insitu Signs Licensing Agreement with Sentient to Integrate Kestrel Automated Detection Software into UAS’
Insitu Signs Licensing Agreement with Sentient to Integrate Kestrel Automated Detection Software into UAS’

Insitu Inc., has announced that it has signed a long-term licensing agreement with Sentient, located in Melbourne, Australia, to integrate...

Oct 24, 2012
Rolls-Royce to Develop Mini Water Jet for Unmanned Surface Craft
Rolls-Royce to Develop Mini Water Jet for Unmanned Surface Craft

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, is to develop a new, highly efficient water jet to propel unmanned surface craft...

Oct 24, 2012
Northrop Grumman Delivers New BACN-Equipped Global Hawk UAS to U.S. Air Force
Northrop Grumman Delivers New BACN-Equipped Global Hawk UAS to U.S. Air Force

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force carrying the Battlefield Airborne Communications...

Oct 24, 2012
Teledyne Launches New Strained-Layer-Superlattice Infrared Camera for UAV Payloads
Teledyne Launches New Strained-Layer-Superlattice Infrared Camera for UAV Payloads

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated has announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC (TS&I), has introduced its first miniature hot...

Oct 24, 2012
IAI’s Heron UAS Crosses Andes in Operational Flight Demonstration
IAI’s Heron UAS Crosses Andes in Operational Flight Demonstration

Israel Aerospace Industries‘ (IAI) Heron Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has marked a new achievement last month when crossing the Andes...

Oct 24, 2012
French DGA Completes Sea Trials of Automatic UAV Takeoff and Landing System
French DGA Completes Sea Trials of Automatic UAV Takeoff and Landing System

The French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA, Direction générale de l’armement) has recently conducted successful sea trials of D2AD*, an automatic...

Oct 24, 2012
R³ Engineering Completes the First ADS-B Fully Autonomous Collision Avoidance UAS Demonstration
R³ Engineering Completes the First ADS-B Fully Autonomous Collision Avoidance UAS Demonstration

R³ Engineering LLC (R³E) announces the first ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast) based, fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence, executed...

Oct 24, 2012
Lockheed Martin’s JAGM Dual-Mode Seeker Completes High-Speed Captive Flight Tests
Lockheed Martin’s JAGM Dual-Mode Seeker Completes High-Speed Captive Flight Tests

Lockheed Martin successfully tested its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) dual-mode seeker in high-speed captive flight tests, demonstrating its ability to...

Oct 23, 2012
Oshkosh Defense Demonstrates TerraMax UGV Capabilities for Marine Corps Leaders
Oshkosh Defense Demonstrates TerraMax UGV Capabilities for Marine Corps Leaders

Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, recently demonstrated its TerraMax unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) technology for Brig. Gen. Mark...

Oct 23, 2012
ORBIT Successfully Tests and Deploys New Auto-Tracking Triple Band Antenna Systems
ORBIT Successfully Tests and Deploys New Auto-Tracking Triple Band Antenna Systems

ORBIT Communication Systems, Inc. a subsidiary of ORBIT Technologies Ltd. provider of mission-critical connectivity solutions in a variety of markets,...

Oct 23, 2012
Advantech Wireless Releases New Line of Weather-Proof DVB-RCS Remote Terminals
Advantech Wireless Releases New Line of Weather-Proof DVB-RCS Remote Terminals

Advantech Wireless, a Canadian-based manufacturer of broadcast-quality Satellite, RF Equipment and Microwave Systems has released a new line of weather-proof...

Oct 23, 2012
UK to Deploy More Reaper Drones to Afghanistan
UK to Deploy More Reaper Drones to Afghanistan

The UK is to double the number of armed RAF “drones” flying combat and surveillance operations in Afghanistan and, for...

Oct 23, 2012
Aerosonde® Small UAS Logs 168 Flight Hours in Antarctica
Aerosonde® Small UAS Logs 168 Flight Hours in Antarctica

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, has announced that its Aerosonde® Small...

Oct 23, 2012
SRI International Launch TerraSight® EX Expeditionary System at AUSA 2012
SRI International Launch TerraSight® EX Expeditionary System at AUSA 2012

The TerraSight® EX video exploitation system, a compact, lightweight expeditionary version of the proven TerraSight platform, was introduced today by...

Oct 22, 2012
Aurora Integrates SRI International’s On-Board Video Processor into Skate SUAS
Aurora Integrates SRI International’s On-Board Video Processor into Skate SUAS

Aurora Flight Sciences and SRI International Sarnoff have announced the integration of the SRI Sarnoff DL Micro™ digital data link...

Oct 22, 2012
DARPA Selects Team ViGIR Led by TORC for Robotics Challenge
DARPA Selects Team ViGIR Led by TORC for Robotics Challenge

TORC Robotics announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Team ViGIR – Virginia-Germany Interdisciplinary Robotics Team...

Oct 22, 2012
Sagetech and Arcturus UAV to Demonstrate Joint Manned and Unmanned Aircraft Operations Using NextGen ADS-B System
Sagetech and Arcturus UAV to Demonstrate Joint Manned and Unmanned Aircraft Operations Using NextGen ADS-B System

Sagetech Corporation an avionics company, and Arcturus UAV will demonstrate the use of the “NextGen” Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system...

Oct 22, 2012
Elbit Systems of America to Showcase Skylark UAS at AUSA 2012
Elbit Systems of America to Showcase Skylark UAS at AUSA 2012

Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd. will present an array of cutting edge...

Oct 22, 2012
Analytic Systems Wins Contract to Supply Power Products for AAI Shadow UAS Ground Control Stations
Analytic Systems Wins Contract to Supply Power Products for AAI Shadow UAS Ground Control Stations

On the heels of a record production year, Analytic Systems is pleased to announce its largest order ever for a...

Oct 19, 2012
Pointman Tactical Robot Survives Close Range Shooting During SWAT Operation
Pointman Tactical Robot Survives Close Range Shooting During SWAT Operation

In a SWAT operation that concluded with the suspect in custody, a Pointman Tactical Robot was struck with four rounds...

Oct 19, 2012
Northrop Grumman Remotec to Start Titus UGV Robot Deliveries in December
Northrop Grumman Remotec to Start Titus UGV Robot Deliveries in December

Northrop Grumman Corporation‘s subsidiary, Remotec Inc., will begin deliveries in December of Titus TM, the newest and smallest member of...

Oct 18, 2012
U.S. Army Research Lab Uses Thermoelectric Technology on Shadow Tactical UAS to Convert Heat into Energy
U.S. Army Research Lab Uses Thermoelectric Technology on Shadow Tactical UAS to Convert Heat into Energy

In one of its latest research projects, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is investigating thermoelectric properties of materials on the...

Oct 18, 2012
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