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
Monthly Archives: May 2012
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
AAI Offers Tactical Sensor Intelligence Sharing
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
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
Film Industry Discovers UAS
The film industry is turning to UAS to produce exciting images at sensible prices. Continue reading
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
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
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.
