The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) call on innovators of every kind – scientists, engineers, citizen scientists and dreamers to collaborate on the UAVForge Challenge and win $100,000.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Insitu Gets $83M Support Contract for ScanEagle
Insitu Incorporated is being awarded a more than $83 million contract for operations and maintenance services in support of government-owned ScanEagle UAS.
US Forces ‘Empire Challenge’ Promotes Intelligence Interoperability
Firebird optionally piloted systems, RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems, and Desert Hawk unmanned aircraft systemsare among the technologies being tested during U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Empire Challenge 2011 demonstration.
NMSU Conducts 4 Dimension Test Flights with AAI Shadow
New Mexico State University’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center supported AAI Corporation’s Shadow 200 Tactical UAS in conducting flights over the skies of Hatch, N.M. These were four-dimensional flight tests in support of efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration Tech Center to further UAS flights in the National Airspace System.
Selex Develops Platform-Agnostic Integration System Sensor Concept
The UK Ministry of Defence’s requirement for an unmanned surveillance system, dubbed Scavenger, could result in the first aircraft to carry the “platform-agnostic integration system” sensor concept being developed by Selex Galileo for medium-altitude, long-endurance and larger air vehicles.
US Air Force Contracts Elbit & Lockheed Martin to Develop Renewable Energy for Small UAS
Systems designers at Elbit Systems of America LLC in Fort Worth, Texas, and at Lockheed Martin Corp. in Eagan, Minn., will develop a green hybrid propulsion system running on renewable energy for small UAS as part of initial phase of the U.S. Air Force Small Unmanned Renewable enerGy long Endurance Vehicle (SURGE-V) programme.
General Atomics & CAE Team to Offer Predator B to Canada
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and CAE announced yesterday that the companies have signed an exclusive teaming agreement to offer the Predator B UAS to meet Canada’s Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) needs.
US Army $8.4 Million Order for Digital Raven Systems from AeroVironment
AeroVironment Inc. announced that it has received a firm-fixed-price contract order valued at $8,373,995 under a follow-on contract with the U.S. Army towards a total acquisition objective of 2,358 systems.