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

Northrop Grumman Delivers Global Hawk UAS Early and On Cost

Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered a Global Hawk Block 40 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to the U.S. Air Force at Grand...

Mar 19, 2014
Airbus Defense and Space Launches AuroraGlobal, Designed for Secure UAV ISR Operations

Airbus Defense and Space has launched AuroraGlobal, able to provide unmatched high throughput military satcom services to defense and other...

Mar 18, 2014
Unmanned Aircraft Tested as New South Texas FAA Test Site Prepares for Operation

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi continued its preparations to be fully operational as one of only six federal test sites for...

Mar 14, 2014
New UST Profile for Omnetics Connector Corporation

Omnetics Connector Corporation, a leading supplier of micro and nano miniature connectors for unmanned systems, has a new ‘Gold’ profile...

Mar 13, 2014
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Wins Laureate Award

The U.S. Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS), built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), has won a Laureate...

Mar 12, 2014
ViaSat’s Embeddable Security System Awarded NIST Certification

ViaSat Inc. has received Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 2 Certification for the ViaSat Embeddable Security System 1200...

Mar 10, 2014
Thales’s Watchkeeper UAS Given Full Release To Service by UK MoD

Watchkeeper, the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed by Thales for the British Army, has been given a Release To Service...

Mar 10, 2014
Flying Robots to Help Train Athletes, Prevent Sports Injuries

A new flying robot is being developed to help athletes and teams elevate their performance while helping to prevent sports...

Mar 05, 2014
SRCTec to Produce Radars for U.S Army Ground-Based Sense and Avoid Program

SRCTec has been awarded a $7.2 million order from the U.S. Army to provide radars for the Army’s Ground-Based Sense...

Mar 05, 2014
Schiebel CAMCOPTER S-100 Performs Surveillance at Sochi Olympic Games

During the entire 2014 Winter Olympics Games and Paralympics in Sochi, the Schiebel CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS Unmanned Aircraft System (in...

Mar 04, 2014
Aurora Wins DARPA VTOL X-Plane Program Contract

Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded a Phase I contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Vertical Takeoff...

Mar 04, 2014
Green Hills Software INTEGRITY RTOS Selected for AirMule UAS Flight Management System

Green Hills Software‘s INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) and MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE) have been selected by Urban Aeronautics,...

Mar 03, 2014
VIRES Aeronautics Raises $1M to Advance Development of Innovative Aircraft Wing Design

VIRES Aeronautics, developers of a revolutionary airplane wing design, has announced a $1 million Series AA round of financing. The...

Mar 03, 2014
Northrop Grumman Australia Acquires Qantas Defence Services

Northrop Grumman Australia Pty Limited has completed the acquisition of Qantas Defence Services Pty Limited, now called Northrop Grumman Integrated...

Mar 03, 2014
Orbital Designs UAV Propulsion System for Insitu

Orbital has announced that it has successfully completed the design phase of its design, development and validation program for the...

Feb 28, 2014
Sikorsky’s Matrix Technology Program Launches Phase 2 of Flight Test Activities

Sikorsky Aircraft’s Matrix™ Technology autonomy research program has progressed to the second phase of flight test activities with the installation...

Feb 27, 2014
New Profile for San Francisco Circuits: PCB Fabrication & Assembly for Unmanned Vehicles

San Francisco Circuits, an industry leader in PCB fabrication and assembly for unmanned vehicles, has a new profile on Unmanned...

Feb 25, 2014
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates JAGM Dual-mode Guidance Section

Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) dual-mode guidance section engaging a laser-designated moving target during an internally...

Feb 25, 2014
SimActive’s UAV Software Selected by Korean Firm DongWon

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, has announced that Korean firm DongWon Survey Consultants Co., Ltd has purchased...

Feb 24, 2014
Northrop Grumman’s Common Imagery Processor Deploys to Support Global Hawk Block 40

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Common Imagery Processor (CIP) has taken another important step in supporting the Global Hawk Block 40 Unmanned...

Feb 21, 2014
Singapore-Israel Cooperation Leads to World’s First Civilian Fuel Cell UAV

Horizon Energy Systems of Singapore has produced an ultra-light fuel cell power system that has led to a new flight...

Feb 21, 2014
Lockheed Martin to Conduct Autonomous Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Experiment

Lockheed Martin has received a contract from the U.S. Army Robotics Technology Consortium to conduct a fully autonomous reconnaissance, surveillance...

Feb 19, 2014
Hexagon acquires Multicopter System Manufacturer Aibotix

Hexagon, leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation solutions, has acquired Aibotix, a manufacturer of intelligent multicopter systems for...

Feb 18, 2014
Topcon Announce Availability of SIRIUS PRO Unmanned Aerial Positioning System

Topcon Positioning Group has announced the release and availability in Europe of the Topcon SIRIUS PRO powered by MAVinci, an...

Feb 18, 2014
ARCA Develops High Performance UAV for Stratospheric Flights

ARCA, a Romanian developer of space vehicles, has announced that it is developing a high performance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)....

Feb 14, 2014
Insitu Updates ICOMC2 Common Command and Control System for UAS

Insitu has announced the 2.0 release of ICOMC2, the company’s innovative, small-footprint common command and control system. Since its introduction...

Feb 14, 2014
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