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

TechSAT GmbH Announces Partnership with Ideal Aerosmith

TechSAT GmbH, a designer and developer of turnkey solutions for the integration, verification and validation of aircraft systems, has announced...

Mar 24, 2015
ENSCO Avionics Software to be used in US Army GBSAA Program

ENSCO Avionics, Inc., a provider of DO-178 safety-critical avionics software and systems, has announced that the US Army will utilize...

Mar 24, 2015
Boeing to Conduct Milestone UAS Demonstrations in Denmark

Boeing has announced that it will conduct Denmark’s first ever beyond visual line-of-sight unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flights under civilian...

Mar 23, 2015
Clear Flight Solutions Receives Funding for Robotic Birds

Clear Flight Solutions, a manufacturer of lifelike robotic birds, has received an €1.6 million investment from the Cottonwood Euro Technology...

Mar 20, 2015
Top Flight Technologies Announces Hybrid Multirotor Drone

Top Flight Technologies, a manufacturer of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) solutions, has announced that it has developed a hybrid...

Mar 20, 2015
Kansas State University Leads UAV Crop Monitoring Project

Kansas State University has announced that it is leading an international, multimillion-dollar project that is looking at unmanned aerial systems...

Mar 20, 2015
Panoptes Systems Introduces eBumper4 Drone Obstacle Avoidance System

Panoptes Systems, a developer of environmental awareness solutions for drones, has introduced the eBumper4, the first commercially-available, sonar-based, small drone obstacle...

Mar 19, 2015
RT LTA Systems Skystar 180 Selected for Purchase by US Army

RT LTA Systems Ltd., the designer, developer, and manufacturer of the Skystar™ family of aerostats, has announced that its Skystar...

Mar 19, 2015
Predator B Fleet Achieves One Million Flight Hours

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that its Predator® B/MQ-9 Reaper® RPA fleet has achieved a historic milestone...

Mar 18, 2015
Unmanned Vehicle University to Host Fundamentals of UAVs Seminar

Unmanned Vehicle University, based in Phoenix, Arizona, and the only university in the world that is licensed to offer graduate...

Mar 18, 2015
Itchimi-Asia to Distribute SmartC2 VirtualAirBoss Aviation Software

SmartC2 Inc., a developer of aviation software solutions, has announced a new distribution agreement for its VirtualAirBoss™ software with Itchimi-Asia,...

Mar 18, 2015
University of Hertfordshire Completes Climate Research Instrument for NASA Global Hawk

Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire have designed and built a new type of instrument for climate research that is...

Mar 17, 2015
Draganfly Innovations Releases Agricultural UAV Solution with MicaSense Multispectral Camera

Draganfly Innovations Inc., a manufacturer of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), has released an all-inclusive agricultural imaging solution that can...

Mar 16, 2015
Motorola Solutions Invests in UAV Manufacturer CyPhy Works

Motorola Solutions has announced that it has made an investment in CyPhy Works, a developer of advanced unmanned aerial vehicles...

Mar 16, 2015
NASA Langley Research Center Awards Contract to Drone Aviation

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a developer of specialized lighter-than-air aerostats and tethered drones, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary,...

Mar 12, 2015
Three Razors Media to Use Drone Technology for Real Estate Marketing

Three Razors Media, a provider of industry-specific marketing and public relations services with an emphasis on multimedia storytelling, has announced...

Mar 12, 2015
Global Hawk Aircraft Reaches 10,000 Hour Milestone

The U.S. Air Forces Central Command has announced that one of its RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft has reached the...

Mar 12, 2015
Hovercam-Media Gains Exclusive Distribution Rights to Lynx M UAV

Hovercam-Media, a company that provides mapping and multimedia services, has announced that it has closed a new deal for exclusive...

Mar 11, 2015
Dassault Aviation Completes Neuron Test Program in France

Dassault Aviation, a manufacturer of military and business aircraft, has announced that it has completed the test program for its...

Mar 10, 2015
Rapid Composites Develops Amphibious UAS

Rapid Composites, a provider of engineering and manufacturing services, has announced that it has developed a tricopter unmanned aerial system...

Mar 10, 2015
DARPA Awards ALIAS Phase 1 Contract to Sikorsky Aircraft

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the company an $8 million...

Mar 05, 2015
ComEd Receives FAA Approval for UAS Power Line Inspection

ComEd has announced that it has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)...

Mar 05, 2015
UAS Directions Develops Adaptable Frameless Multirotor UAS Body

UAS Directions, a startup company that develops unmanned aerial systems technology, has announced that it has developed a frameless 3D...

Mar 04, 2015
Blue-Chip UAS Granted First Section 333 Exemption Across Multiple Industries

Blue-Chip Unmanned Aerial Solutions, Inc., a company that facilitates cost-effective integration of unmanned aerial systems into its clients’ businesses, has...

Mar 04, 2015
General Atomics and SENER to Supply Predator B to Spain

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and SENER, a leading Spanish engineering company, have announced that they have signed a teaming...

Mar 04, 2015
Video: Boeing Tests New Fuel Cell Technology on UAV

Boeing has announced that it is developing fuel cell technologies as part of an overall goal of making completely sustainable...

Mar 03, 2015
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