Unmanned Technology News

The latest technology news for Autonomous and Unmanned Systems. Articles on integrated and embedded systems, payloads, product launches and technological advances for drones, UAV, UGV, USV and UUV

Thales’s TMA 6000 Wideband Airborne Datalink Terminal Obtains US Certification

Thales announces the STANAG 7085 certification of its TMA 6000 wideband airborne datalink terminal by the Joint Interoperability Test Command...

Jun 13, 2012
Sofradir Boosts Performance of High Operating Temperature MWIR Infrared Detector

Sofradir’s L-HOT MWIR demonstrator offers thermal equipment makers power efficiency with no trade-off in detection range. Sofradir, the number one...

Jun 13, 2012
CarteNav Demonstrates ISR solutions at Eurosatory

The CarteNav team members attending Eurosatory 2012 are enjoying plenty of interest in their ISR solutions AIMS-ISR® and AIMS-HD, whilst...

Jun 13, 2012
Sagetech Announces New Clarity ADS-B Receiver

Unmanned avionics innovator, Sagetech Corporation, brings its expertise in miniaturization to the General Aviation market this summer with its new...

Jun 13, 2012
Faun Trackway USA Brings World’s First UAV Landing Mat To AUVSI

FAUN TRACKWAY USA, the leading manufacturer of portable roadways and runways, will be showcasing its UAV Landing Mat at the Association...

Jun 12, 2012
Controp Presents New EO Payloads for UAVs and Land Systems at Eurosatory 2012

Controp Precision Technologies has launched the M-STAMP gyro stabilized multi sensor payload system for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and small...

Jun 12, 2012
KVH Launches High-Performance, Ultra Compact Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)

KVH Industries, Inc., introduces the new Series 1750 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), an advanced 6-degrees-of-freedom sensor (DOF) designed to integrate...

Jun 10, 2012
Jenoptik Launches Laser Rangefinder with Thermal Imager for Reconnaissance and Target Acquisition

Jenoptik has announced the launch of NYXUS BIRD, the first multifunctional thermal imager combining day/night vision with target localization capability in...

Jun 10, 2012
Kontron Doubles Video Data Processing Performance with Quad-Core AdvancedMC

Kontron has announced the introduction of its most powerful single AdvancedMC™ processor module, designed with the 3rd generation Intel® Core™...

Jun 07, 2012
ImSAR Wins $24M Contract to Develop Lightweight Radar for Small UAVs

ImSar, LLC, suppliers of digital signal processing, radar, manufacturing, and inertial measurement systems for defense and unmanned applications, has been...

Jun 07, 2012
MicroStrain Releases Groundbreaking New Lossless Wireless Sensor Networks

MicroStrain’s new LXRS™ “lossless” wireless communication protocol (patent pending) supports scalable networks of high speed sensor nodes without data loss due...

Jun 07, 2012
SPI Corp to Display UAV Thermal PTZ Cameras at Border Management Southwest

SPI Corp is a leading provider of thermal PTZ (thermal pan tilt zoom) solutions to US Military and Border Patrol...

Jun 07, 2012
Boeing Demonstrates SATCOM on the Move Between Australia and US

Boeing has successfully demonstrated its SATCOM on the Move (SOTM) product on a live Ka-band satellite network. The demonstration in...

Jun 05, 2012
Hood Technology UAV Imaging Systems to be Used by Iraqi Navy

The UAV imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the...

May 31, 2012
New Piezoelectric Accelerometer Technologies for UAV Ground Vibration Testing

Kistler has announced availability of its piezoelectric accelerometer technologies for cost-effective, high-accuracy support of aircraft, helicopter, rotorcraft, missile, satellite and...

May 29, 2012
Engineers Develop Cheap Onboard Tracking System For UAVs

The popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs has exploded in just a few years. That’s the result of smaller,...

May 29, 2012
UAV Imaging System Produces 3D Models of Historical Monuments

University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained...

May 24, 2012
SPI Corp Unveils Next Generation Multisensor Thermal PTZ Gimbal

SPI Corp is a long time distributor and manufacturer of thermal imager systems in the United States. They specialize in...

May 23, 2012
FreeWave Technologies To Showcase UAV Wireless Data Radios

  FreeWave Technologies, manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced...

May 22, 2012
Low Cost UAV AutoPilot Launched

3D Robotics has released its AdruPilot Mega 2.0 AutoPilot. Seen at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, the APM2 is...

May 22, 2012
Australian DSTO is First to Acquire New MicroROV Navigation Technology

VideoRay and its partners announced today that they have shipped the first implementation of VideoRay CoPilot by SeeByte software, on...

May 22, 2012
New SimMetrics Software from AGI and VT MÄK Brings Real-Time Analysis to Battlefield Simulations

Doing more with less is a prevalent theme in today’s military, especially when it comes to reducing the costs of...

May 21, 2012
Volz Servo Orders Increase to Support AAI’s Recent Aerosonde SUAS Contract Awards

Volz Servos has been contracted by AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems to supply servos for their Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System...

May 04, 2012
Hood Tech UAV Imagers Show Up Big at a Simulated Showdown

According to a recent article in Lookout Navy News Online, the use of Hood Tech’s imagers on board an unmanned...

May 03, 2012
Headwall Hyperspectral SWIR Sensors Selected for U.S. Navy UAVs

Headwall Photonics, a leading designer and manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging sensors, announced that its High Efficiency Hyperspec® SWIR (Short-wave, Infrared)...

May 01, 2012
FLIR Systems Launch Tau SWIR 15 Micron Camera

FLIR Systems has announced the availability of the Tau SWIR 15, a rugged compact and low-power shortwave imager incorporating FLIR’s...

Apr 30, 2012
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