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Elbit Systems announced that it has completed a series of successful tests of its Skylark I LE mini/man-pack UAS using the Dominator hardware to control and operate the UAS. During the tests, the Skylark was operated by a new cutting edge lightweight Forward Ground Control Station (FGCS) which utilizes the Dominator organic hardware solution.
UAS operator Gene Robinson was back in action again recently helping police in a search in once hidden areas for a missing Indiana University student.
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems integrators at the BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support (EI&S) business unit in Arlington, Va., are developing an airborne processing and sensor system able to detect and track 20,000 or more infantry soldiers and combat vehicles over a wide area under terms of a $11.4 million contract awarded last week.
Controp has added a new product which was recently developed : the new M-STAMP – a multi sensor electro-optical / infrared payload for small UAS.
On Thursday June 9, 2011, the first meeting of the NVvL network for unmanned aviation was held. Nearly 70 individuals from the sector participated in the meeting, representing more than 40 companies and organizations.
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The growing interest in unmanned aircraft systems for use by Indian police and law enforcement agencies is bringing the Home Ministry to evaluate some of the technologies available for paramilitary use.
The Pentagon is processing a record backlog of $327 billion in arms exports and is speeding up the clearance process to meet the rising demand for UAS, said Vice Admiral Bill Landay, head of the agency responsible for weapons exports.
Maynard Hill, a designer of model airplanes who secured a spot in aviation history in 2003 when one of his creations flew 1,882 miles across the Atlantic Ocean on less than a gallon of fuel, died June 7 of prostate cancer at his home in Silver Spring, Md. He was 85.