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Kaman Aerospace Corporation and the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) recently made aviation history with the Unmanned K-MAX helicopter by successfully completing multiple guided airdrops via sling load at 10,000 ft above sea level.
AAI Shadow
Three naval entities collaborated to adapt a small radio receiver intended for space applications into a full-featured radio frequency system for a Marine Corps UAS. The Software Reprogrammable Payload (SRP), a joint effort between the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Laboratory and Marine Corps aviation, is currently targeted for the AAI Shadow.
Trident Systems has won a $49.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to run the small UAS component of the Special Surveillance Programme (SSP) to detect and target terrorist forces engaged in planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs), sabotage, and attacking U.S. and allied military bases.
The Fifth International Forum and Exhibition “Unmanned Multipurpose Vehicle Systems”-“UVS-TECH 2011” held at the Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia starts next Tuesday, March 1st. The detailed programme is now available: UVS-TECH-2011_Conference-Programme .
FLIR Systems, Inc. has announced at IDEX that the Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor has been selected by General Atomics as the leading EO/IR sensor candidate for various Predator XP UAS projects in the Middle East and North Africa.
BOSH Global Services has been awarded a $2.2 million one-year contract (with the option for a second year) to provide UAS training to United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) cadets.
IDEX closed yesterday, with the organisers publishing final figures showing a record attendance with more than 60,000 visitors, 1,060 exhibiting companies from 53 countries and 150 official delegations participating in a total event space of 124,000 m².
Rockwell Collins announced at IDEX that its Athena family of flight control and navigation systems recently exceeded 1 million flight hours on several UAS performing surveillance operations primarily in the Middle East.