UAV / Drone News

The latest UAS / UAV news for Autonomous and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Articles on commercial UAV, tactical drones and unmanned aerial systems, product launches and technological advances in UAV design and manufacture

FAA Releases B4UFLY Unmanned Aircraft App Beta Test

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it has released the beta version of a new smartphone application called...

Sep 08, 2015
DARPA Announces “Gremlins” UAS Program

For decades, U.S. military air operations have relied on increasingly capable multi-function manned aircraft to execute critical combat and non-combat...

Sep 08, 2015
Naval Postgraduate School Engineering Laboratory Simultaneously Flies 50 UAVs

The US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Laboratory (ARSENL) has announced that it has flown 50 autonomous...

Sep 08, 2015
DeTect HARRIER Air Surveillance Radar Installed at ATLAS UAS Flight Center

DeTect, Inc., a radar engineering company, has announced that its HARRIER S200d Air Surveillance Radar (ASR) has been installed at...

Sep 05, 2015
Drone Aviation Corp to Collaborate with Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership

Drone Aviation Holding Corp. (DAC), a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that The Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership...

Sep 02, 2015
WB Electronics and Thales Unveil Polish Gryf UAS

WB Electronics and Thales have unveiled their exclusive tactical unmanned aircraft system for the Polish Gryf requirement. The WB Electronics/Thales...

Sep 02, 2015
ScanEagle UAS Demonstrates Wildfire Monitoring Capabilities

While more than 625,000 acres of wildfires burned throughout the Pacific Northwest, crew members of the Insitu Rapid Response team...

Sep 02, 2015
ARCA Space Corporation to Partner with Spaceport America for Space Launch and UAS Testing

Spaceport America, a purpose-built commercial spaceport, has announced that ARCA Space Corporation, a manufacturer of space vehicles and unmanned aircraft, has...

Sep 01, 2015
Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered UAV to Attempt 300km Flight

Horizon Energy Systems (HES), a developer of high-performance fuel cells, has announced that one of the company’s fuel cells will...

Sep 01, 2015
NASA to Install Locata Network at UAS Research Center

Locata Corporation, a developer of terrestrial positioning networks, has announced that NASA plans to install a Locata network (LocataNet) as...

Aug 31, 2015
Orbital Receives Insitu Order for UAV Engines and Propulsion Systems

Orbital Corporation Limited (“Orbital” or “the Company”) has received an order valued at US$9.7 million (A$12 million) from Insitu Inc....

Aug 28, 2015
Pearson Sponsors Ocean Alliance to Study Whales with Drones

Pearson, the publishing and education company, has announced that it is partnering with the Ocean Alliance and the Olin College...

Aug 28, 2015
Boston Engineering Receives USAF Grant to Improve UAV Motor Control

Boston Engineering, an engineering consultancy company, has announced that it has been awarded a $150,000 contract by the U.S. Air...

Aug 28, 2015
Northwest UAV Concludes Flight Testing with NW-44 Engine

Northwest UAV (NWUAV), a developer of propulsion systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, has announced the completion of over 100 hours...

Aug 28, 2015
PRENAV Announces High-Precision Commercial Drone System

PRENAV, a startup technology company, has announced that it is developing a precision drone system with centimetre-level accuracy for infrastructure...

Aug 27, 2015
US Navy and Northrop Grumman Test Endurance of MQ-8C Fire Scout

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that, in conjunction with the U.S. Navy, it has successfully demonstrated endurance capabilities with the...

Aug 26, 2015
NASA Chooses UASUSA Tempest Drone to Monitor Wildfires and Swamp Algae

UASUSA, a manufacturer of small electric unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and developer of complete UAV-based solutions, has announced that its...

Aug 25, 2015
Trimble Announces New ZX5 Multirotor UAS for Mapping and Inspection

Trimble has announced the release of its new ZX5 Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), an aerial imaging and workflow solution...

Aug 25, 2015
U.S. Army Upgrades AeroVironment RQ-11B Raven UAS

The U.S. Army confirmed last week that selected units had received an upgrade to their RQ-11B Raven UAS, to include...

Aug 25, 2015
Mitsui Chemicals POLYMETAC to be Used in New Lightweight UAV Frames

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. has announced that the company’s unique metal resin integral technology, POLYMETAC, has been selected for use in...

Aug 24, 2015
Drone Aviation WASP Aerostat Completes DoD Enterprise Challenge

Drone Aviation Holding Corp. (DAC), a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that its U.S. Army-owned WASP...

Aug 24, 2015
AeroVironment’s RQ-11B Raven UAS to be used by Spanish MOD

AeroVironment, Inc. has received a contract from the United States Army totaling $3.4 million for RQ-11B Raven® unmanned aircraft systems...

Aug 21, 2015
Remote GeoSystems Adds DJI Inspire 1 UAV Support to LineVision Recording Software

Remote GeoSystems, Inc., a developer of Geospatial Full Motion Video (FMV) recording solutions, has announced that it has added direct...

Aug 20, 2015
Aero Kinetics and GridMeNow to Develop On-Demand UAS Technology

Aero Kinetics, an aerospace and defense firm, has announced a partnership with GridMeNow, a developer of a mobile platform that...

Aug 20, 2015
National Science Foundation Awards $6 Million Grant for Meteorological UAVs

The University of Kentucky has announced that, along with Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, and University of Nebraska, it...

Aug 19, 2015
RQ-4 Global Hawk Demonstrates Advanced Mission Management & Control Capabilities

Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully demonstrated mission management control features that create more unmanned aircraft system (UAS) versatility and efficiencies....

Aug 18, 2015
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