GA-ASI and UK Partners Demonstrate New Open Payload Architecture

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. , along with SELEX Galileo (a Finmeccanica company) and Cobham Aviation Services (Cobham), demonstrated a new open payload architecture during the Sovereign Payload Capability Demonstration (SPCD) held at GA-ASI’s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facilities in Palmdale, California. Continue reading

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MAVinci’s Sirius 1 Flies at UVEX in Madrid

MAVinci’s Spanish UAS distributor Grupo Acre presented SIRIUS I, a UAS for civil applications and specialized for “Orthophotos and Mapping” at  UVEX 12 in Madrid. Continue reading

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A-ASI and UK Partners Demonstrate New Open Payload Architecture

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems now offers the Tac-SIS system to provide integrated aerial  situational awareness for U.S. and international customers. Scalable and configurable, TacSIS builds upon AAI’s combat-proven One System. Continue reading

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Elbit Announces LE Version of Skylark

Based on the operationally-proven Skylark I Unmanned Aircraft System  currently used by many coalition partners, the LE version increases the system’s operational range to 15 km and the endurance to approximately 3 hours. Continue reading

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Film Industry Discovers UAS

The film industry is turning to UAS to produce exciting images at sensible prices. Continue reading

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FAA Moves Forward on UAS Integration

Federal Aviation Administration has been working to ensure the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the NAS. The FAA’s sole mission and authority as it focuses on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems is safety. Continue reading

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Insitu Gets $35M ScanEagle Support Contract from US Navy

Insitu, Inc.  being awarded a $35,507,379 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) for additional operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system. Continue reading

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Wired Business Conference: Drones, Tractors and Beyond

Mary “Missy” Cummings, Professor, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology talk to Wired’s Chris Anderson about the future of robots, UAS and tractors.

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