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

Section 333 Exemption Requested for Aeryon Labs Skyranger UAS

Aeryon Labs Inc. has announced that VDOS Global LLC has submitted a request to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for...

Nov 18, 2014
Hunton & Williams Launches UAS Integration Legal Unit

Hunton & Williams LLP, a US law firm, has announced the formation of a multidisciplinary Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Unit...

Nov 18, 2014
Velodyne Demonstrates 3D LiDAR Puck at UAS Mapping 2014

Velodyne LiDAR unveiled its new LiDAR Puck to the UAV market at the ASPRS UAS/UAV Mapping Forum 2014 in Reno,...

Nov 18, 2014
CybAero Invests in Advanced Unmanned Helicopter Test Facility

CybAero, a Swedish company that develops and markets unmanned helicopters, has decided to build a test center which will house...

Nov 18, 2014
Sharper Shape Granted Permission for Advanced Long Distance UAV Flights

Sharper Shape, a supplier of UAV-based asset management solutions for utilities, has announced that the company has received approval from...

Nov 17, 2014
NJIT to Conduct UAS Flights Over Atlantic Ocean

The New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced that it will be conducting UAS flights over the Atlantic Ocean to...

Nov 17, 2014
xG Technology Radio Networking to be Used in Commercial UAV Infrastructure

xG Technology, Inc., a developer of patented wireless communications and spectrum sharing technologies, has received an order from Airogistic, LLC,...

Nov 17, 2014
PINC Solutions Announces Unmanned Aerial Real-Time Locating System

PINC Solutions, a provider of advanced yard management and supply chain execution solutions powered by the Internet of Things (IoT),...

Nov 14, 2014
VineView and SkySquirrel to Launch New Specialized Agricultural UAV

VineView-SAI, Inc., a St. Helena-based remote sensing company, has partnered with SkySquirrel Technologies Inc. (SST), a commercial Unmanned Aerial System...

Nov 12, 2014
Northrop Grumman Awarded Sustainment Contract for Global Hawk UAV

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $306 million contract to continue logistics and sustainment services...

Nov 12, 2014
DARPA Issues RFI for Insights into Aircraft Carriers for UAVs

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invited input on how to enable existing large aircraft to carry, launch...

Nov 11, 2014
ING Robotic Aviation Wins Unmanned Systems Canada Award

ING Robotic Aviation, a provider of robotic aircraft airborne sensing solutions headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, has announced that the company...

Nov 11, 2014
Bathawk Recon Trials Anti-Poaching UAV in Tanzania

  Bathawk Recon, a private Tanzanian company set up to deliver UAV-based anti-poaching services, has performed UAV trials at Tarangire...

Nov 07, 2014
Kratos Announces Successful Test of BQM-177A UAS

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its Unmanned Systems Division (USD) has successfully completed its first U.S....

Nov 07, 2014
Advanced UAV Lab to be Built at Imperial College London

A new £1.25 million arena for flying the next generation of aerial robots will be constructed at Imperial College London,...

Nov 06, 2014
Altavian to Provide Sensor Payloads for US Army RQ-20 Puma UAS

Lockheed Martin’s partner Altavian Inc. has been awarded a $4 million contract to provide gimbaled sensor payloads for the Army’s...

Nov 06, 2014
£120m Contracts Agreed for Anglo-French Combat UAVs

A set of contracts worth £120 million has been awarded for the early phase of a development programme for unmanned...

Nov 06, 2014
PrecisionHawk Receives $10m of Funding from Intel Capital

PrecisionHawk, an unmanned aerial systems and remote sensing company, has announced that Intel Capital has joined its previously announced Series B funding round...

Nov 05, 2014
Trimble Announces Enhancements to UAV Aerial Imaging Application

Trimble has announced the latest enhancements to its Trimble® Access™ Aerial Imaging 2.0 application — making it even more robust,...

Nov 03, 2014
Multiverse Media Group Launches UAV Videography Service

Multiverse Media Group, a firm comprised of marketing, web and video experts, has announced the launch of its aerial videography...

Oct 31, 2014
University of Hawaii Maps Lava Flow with Sensefly UAV

Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo have successfully mapped the active flow front of the June 27, 2014...

Oct 31, 2014
Australian Air Force to Retain Heron Unmanned Aircraft

Australian Minister for Defence Senator David Johnston has announced the return of a Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) to Australia...

Oct 31, 2014
Colombian Ministry of Defense Orders UAV Systems

AERTEC Solutions, an aeronautical engineering company, and In-Nova Group, a multinational technological innovation firm, have been awarded a contract to...

Oct 31, 2014
Insitu Announces Next-Generation ScanEagle 2 UAV Platform

Insitu has announced the ScanEagle 2, the next generation of its revolutionary ScanEagle platform. Leveraging lessons learned from more than...

Oct 30, 2014
Airbus Defence & Space and DCNS to Develop Ship-Based UAS

Airbus Defence and Space and DCNS have signed a cooperation agreement to develop a ship-based helicopter UAS capability. This technological...

Oct 30, 2014
UMS Demonstrate Tactical Fixed-Wing UAV in Uruguay

UMS Group AG, a Swiss/Swedish unmanned systems developer and manufacturer, has demonstrated their F-330 tactical fixed-wing UAS to a delegation of over...

Oct 28, 2014
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