Northrop Grumman expressed disappointment over the U.S. Defense Department’s decision to scrub the Global Hawk Block 30 UAV program. “The Pentagon announced … that it is planning to cancel the Global Hawk Block 30 program and plans to perform this mission with the U-2 aircraft,” the company said in a news release. “Northrop Grumman is disappointed with the Pentagon’s...
New UAS rules on the table in Germany Author: Mathias Bölinger / mz Editor: Nancy Isenson For hobby spy-enthusiasts, they have been available in Germany for quite a while: For 300 euros ($393), you can pick up a...
Insitu, Inc., Bingen, Wash., is being awarded a $21,048,058 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) to exercise an option for operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle unmanned aerial systems. These services will provide electro-optical/infrared...
Earlier this month Iran stated that they would create a model of the RQ 170 Sentinel and send it back to Washington. The RQ 170 also known as the...
Two U.S. companies have teamed to develop beyond-line-of-sight satellite communications for unmanned aircraft systems. The alliance between AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems of Maryland and California’s ViaSat Inc., will integrate...
BANGALORE: Flight trials of Micro and Mini Air Vehicles designed and developed to meet many requirements including countering low intensity conflicts, counter terrorism and for rescue operations during natural...
Marines witnessed the first flight of the service’s newest small unmanned aircraft Jan. 22 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. As part of...
The Union of Information Technologies Enterprises (UITE) has announced the first ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’ contest in Armenia. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles provide road patrol, monitoring of ecological issues, for...
A national research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is embarking on a two-year, multi-pronged effort to better understand the impacts of environmental factors associated with the...
Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that the Swiss Department of Defence has become the first customer for the Centaur Optionally-Piloted Aircraft (OPA). Armasuisse, an official procurement agency of the...
BANGALORE: Lt Col V S Thapa, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) external test pilot, hailing from Dehra Dun, will command this year’s Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) Republic...
From Flightglobal: NATO’s long-running process to order an Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) capability could at last achieve a contract signature within the next few months, although the scale of its programme appears...
It seems that California is just about the only State that notices commercial UAS use is still unregulated in the USA. Last year we had the film commission taking...
Loren B. Thompson Writing on the Lexington Institute site In a move that seems to contradict the Obama Administration’s recently announced Asia-Pacific strategy, the Pentagon has decided to mothball its longest-range surveillance...
HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – Officials with the 49th Wing announced a remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper performed an emergency landing Jan. 23 at approximately 9:45 p.m. just south of the...
At the same time as we posted the FAA ARC inclusion saga the following was on its way to our Federal representation (House and Senate), SBA Ombudsman, White House...
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. | The MQ-8B Fire Scout, the Navy’s only unmanned aircraft to operate on land and at sea, departed Jan. 17 from Mayport, Fla., aboard USS Simpson...
A good news drone story for a change. Showing once again just how useful simple platforms can be for aquiring imagery. Every environmental department really ought to have one....
Lockheed Martin are moving forward with SURGE-V, The goal of the SURGE-V program will be to develop a hybrid power and propulsion system for UAVs smaller than 20 pounds that...
Andrew Tridgell talks about Team Canberra UAVs attempt to rescue Outback Joe this year at this years Linux.conf.au After a years gap things will start to hot up now...
nEUROn, the technology demonstrator for a European UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) was officially presented by Charles Edelstenne, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Aviation, to the representatives...
Rheinmetall and Cassidian have agreed to pursue Rheinmetall’s Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) activities together in a Joint Venture. It was agreed in a contract that Cassidian should hold 51...
Portland, OR – December 20, 2011 – FLIR Systems (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced the availability of its newest camera in the Tau family, the Tau CNV, a rugged compact and low-power...
MicroSurvey is excited to announce that The Hexagon Group has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of MicroSurvey Software Inc., the leading Canadian based developer of...
Russian Helicopters has received 5 billion rubles ($160 mln) from the federal budget for the development of three types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). After charging that smaller domestic developers...
Sarah Dasher For the Santa Cruz Valley Sun In the back corner of an engineering building at the University of Arizona, Professor Sergey Shkarayev and his students study the...
After over one year of positive research and experimental tests, the UNOSAT team has acquired its first Mini-UAV in late 2011 and placed orders for a second unit in...
