FAA Makes Progress with UAS Integration
For more than five decades, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has compiled a proven track record of introducing new technology...
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Ascent Solar Named Bye Aerospace Development Partner
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of flexible CIGS solar panels, has been named a development partner for Bye Aerospace...
The Brican TD100 UAV Prepares for Take Off
Brican Flight Systems Inc. is set to reveal the TD100 series of advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) at the Ontario...
First manned flight of QF16 Aerial Target Drone
The first test flight of Boeing’s QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target drone has been conducted with the U.S. Air Force...
Newtec Provides Key Satellite Communication Technology for EURO HAWK
Satellite specialist Newtec’s IP traffic enhancement and shaping technology Cross-Layer-Optimization™ has been implemented in the flagship EURO HAWK® Unmanned Aerial...
High Resolution 3D Sensor for UAV Collision Prevention
They can be deployed as additional surveillance resources during major events, or as high-resolution 3D street imaging systems. Intelligent swarms...
Raven Aerostar Integrates Vista Research Radar Onto Revolutionary Tethered Aerostat
Raven Aerostar successfully integrated and deployed a Vista Research Smart Sensing Radar System (SSRS) onto its proprietary TIF-25KH tethered aerostat....
Deployment Extended For K-MAX Unmanned Aerial Cargo Hauler
Two unmanned K-MAX helicopters have delivered more than one million pounds in less than four months in support of the...
GE Solve UAV ‘Flying Thermos’ Problem
Last spring, GE broke ground on a $50 million aviation research center at the University of Dayton in Ohio. When...
Lockheed Martin’s Shadow Hawk Munition Launched from Shadow UAS
Lockheed Martin successfully conducted the first launch of a Shadow Hawk precision-guided weapon recently from a Shadow 200 Unmanned Aircraft...
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...
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)...
Darpa Seeks New Sensor to Enable Missions in GPS-Denied Areas
Many U.S. Military systems, such as missiles, rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide accurate position, orientation and...
QinetiQ North America’s Tactical Robotic Controller Emerged in First Combat Role
QinetiQ North America today announced the first combat use of its Tactical Robotic Controller (TRC) in support of the US...
PHOTONIS Introduces Low-Light Digital CMOS Sensor
PHOTONIS SAS introduces the Lynx CMOS sensor, a new low-light digital image sensor designed for high performance under both daylight...
IAI UAV Systems Demonstrated at AUVSI
The annual convention of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) was held this year, for the first time,...
Skate SUAS Wins Border Security Product Challenge Award
Aurora’s Skate small unmanned air vehicle system (SUAS) was awarded first place in the 2012 Border Security Technology/Product Challenge at...
Boeing Phantom Eye Conducts Medium-Speed Taxi Test
Boeing today announced that the Phantom Eye high altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle has conducted its first medium-speed...
Maiden Flight of the Camcopter S-100 with Schiebel’s New Heavy Fuel Engine
Schiebel has announced the first flight of a heavy-fuel powered CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS (Unmanned Air System). The flexibility this engine...
COBALT 190 multi-spectral imaging sensor demonstrated on ARCTURUS UAV Test Flight
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today the successful integration of the COBALT™190 multi-spectral imaging sensor with ARCTURUS UAV T-20, and L-3...
Insitu Introduces Inceptor Small Unmanned Aircraft System
Insitu Inc. announced today that it has introduced the Inceptor small unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which will provide the public...
FLIR Systems’ Star SAFIRE® 380-HD successfully tested on Northrop Grumman Firebird
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that the Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared sensor completed successful flight operations on the Northrop Grumman...
NASA Global Hawk Takes the Earth’s Temperature Over the Pacific Ocean
A Northrop Grumman produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on...
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Flights Completed
Less than a month after completing the first flight of the U.S. Navy’s X-47B UCAS-Demonstration aircraft, flight test engineers from...
Northrop Grumman Completes Structural Proof Testing of Second X-47B Aircraft
The U.S. Navy’s second X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) will be able to withstand all of the structural stresses...
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation Sign MOU to develop UAS proposal
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate exclusively on the preparation and submission...
