Dedicated Asset Allows UAS Test Directorate to Assess New Technologies, Support New Missions for Marine Corps HUNT VALLEY, Md., Nov 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, UAS Test Directorate has established and demonstrated a dedicated Shadow Tactical...
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that it has delivered an Aerosonde Mark 4.7 Small Unmanned Aircraft System and an Orbiter Miniature Unmanned Aircraft System to the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC). The systems will support the five-year cooperative research and development...
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, and Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that the organizations have formed a strategic alliance to integrate AAI’s Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS) and other ground control technologies with Aurora’s Orion UAS and Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA). This pairing supports medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) missions...
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, has completed the U.S. Army’s 2011 Manned Unmanned System Integration Capability (MUSIC) exercise. Held on September 16 at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, the MUSIC exercise demonstrated innovation, integration and interoperability across the Army’s manned and unmanned assets through handoff and command and control...
AME Unmanned Systems, a ChandlerMay, Inc. company, and AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that the two companies have entered into a strategic alliance agreement regarding unmanned systems development. “AAI and ChandlerMay have enjoyed a long, successful working relationship for several years,” says President and Chief Executive Officer...
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems and the U.S. Army are partnering to develop various payloads for tactical, small and miniature unmanned aerial vehicles. Collaboration comes under a 5-year research and development agreement with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center. Under the agreement, CERDEC and AAI engineers will explore whether various CERDEC payload...
HUNT VALLEY, Md.-AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that it has successfully completed an unmanned flight demonstration of a Small Sense and Avoid System (SSAASy) on a Shadow 200 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). AAI’s Shadow system has established a reputation as a mature, capable system during more...
Levon Smith, age 54, of Annapolis, Md., pleaded guilty Oct. 20, to theft of government property in connection with a scheme to steal and sell over $340,000 worth of copper cables and other government property used in foreign military operations. The plea agreement was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special Agent...
Hunt Valley, Maryland — Oct 19, 2010 — AAI, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that the company has completed fee-for-service operations on behalf of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC) for its annual Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) On-the-Move (OTM) program. AAI’s...
Approved during September by the FCC a extract from Steve J Crowleys blog AAI / Textron Systems Corporation filed an application (with supporting exhibits) for experimental license to test its Aerosonde, a small (34 pounds) gas-powered Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) that supports tactical applications and scientific missions for the US military. Testing will be done at the NASA flight test range at...
