These guidelines have been referenced numerous times in stories and commentary across the web and here as recently as part of the 2011 year wrap up. They are posted here as both a reference for what has been done not just as far as written down, but what was a baseline for small business viability and a fraction of what...
by Sgt. Keven Parry Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs FORT RILEY, Kan. – The Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, is planning on adding a new combat strength to their capabilities in March with the addition of an unmanned aerial system company. F Company, CAB, will contribute to the brigade’s mission by flying the Gray Eagle Unmanned Aerial System....
BAE Systems, Nashua, New Hampshire, was awarded a $12,290,244 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for T-Pod Systems on the MQ-1C Unmanned Aircraft System. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity. Solicitation Number: W15P7T-12-R-C009 Notice Type: Sources Sought Synopsis: Added: Dec 02, 2011 10:49 am Information sought from qualified sources to meet requirements for a SIGINT Pod...
Drone Station is a Mac OS X compatible application for remote control of the Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter over a Wi-Fi connection. Drone Station allows customers to use a variety of commonly available joysticks, gamepads, and controllers to control their drone. Summary of features: * Compatible with AR.Drone firmware 1.5.1 through 1.7.11 * Real time video recording from front and...
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 5 Jan. 2011. Military electro-optics experts at the Raytheon Co., Space and Airborne Systems in McKinney, Texas, are seeking to improve the resolution of the Multi-Spectral Targeting System-B (MTS-B) sensor pod for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), helicopters, and fixed-wing aircraft under terms of a $25.8 million contract awarded Tuesday from the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force...
Avweek reports By Bill Sweetman, David Fulghum Washington, Washington The first clear pictures of the center-line reconnaissance bay on Lockheed Martin’s RQ-170 Sentinel show that the small unmanned aircraft was carrying sensor balls mounted in an internal compartment with specially treated transparent panels—developed for the F-22—when one of them crashed in Iran on Dec. 4. The new pictures were...
The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corporation , received a $181 million contract from the U.S. Army for AH-64D Apache Block III LONGBOW systems. The contract includes the first international purchase of the Block III LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR) by Taiwan, which will receive 15 Block III LONGBOW FCR systems....
Seems like the recent privacy concerns raised by ACLU and others may have given Yavapai County the jitters. Scott Orr The Daily Courier PRESCOTT – The unmanned aerial vehicle program approved by the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors in November is hung up on some technical issues, Board Chairman Tom Thurman said. At the board’s meeting Tuesday, two...
The Air Force Times reports By Jill Laster - Staff writer Posted : Monday Jan 2, 2012 9:08:59 EST A small drone designed by a group of Air Force Academy cadets could become the Air Force’s newest unmanned aerial vehicle. Its mission: become a target for F-22s and F-35s to shoot down during training. The Air Force is considering the small...
BRIDGEPORT, WV-) – Aurora Flight Sciences today announced the delivery of the first complete ship set of composite aerospace structures to Northrop Grumman Corporation for the U.S. Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program. Aurora manufactures the aft fuselage, forward nacelle, mid nacelle, aft nacelle, and V-tail assemblies of the MQ-4C BAMS UAS aircraft at its...
