The 13th annual UAS Conference gets underway tomorrow in Paris at 2pm. First item on the agenda is a presentation of UVS International and its Board of Directors, an explanation of the Global Access Initiative, the activities deployed over the last 12 months, the objectives of the UAS 2011 conference and the association’s activities in the coming year.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Unmanned Flying Ball from Japan
Our Japanese isn’t that fluent, but we gather that the machine has been developed by technology research section of Japanese Self Defence Forces and that its Maximum Speed is about 40mph.
Quadricopter at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)Los Angeles
AR.Drone pulled another stunt, this time at the E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo.) last week in Los Angeles. The company was on hand at the world’s biggest video game fair demonstrating its flying video game with Android Beta software on a Motorola Xoom and an HTC Desire….
AeroVironment Gets $13M Puma Contract Extension
AeroVironment, Inc.was awarded on June 6 a $13,113,191 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to confirm Puma unmanned aircraft systems training and contractor logistics support.
New Microwave Power Modules for UAS from TMD
TMD Technologies has introduced two new microwave power modules (MPMs) designed specifically for use with military data-links on UAS.
Reapers Over New York State
The New York Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing, based at Hancock Field in Syracuse, received authorization to operate using a C-Band radio frequency from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration last week, a unit spokesman said.
Turkey To Develop Domestic UAS Industry
Explaining his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) election manifesto, PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged that Turkey’s local defence companies would manufacture indigenous “tanks, helicopters, war planes, unmanned aircraft and military satellites in the next 12 years.”
US Congressional Budget Office Publishes Policy Document for UAS
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has published detailed, unclassified plans to purchase over the next ten years about 730 new medium-sized and large unmanned aircraft systems that are designed for reconnaissance and light attack missions. CBO estimates that completing those investments would cost about $37 billion through 2020.