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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI) subsidiary has received a $1.9 million single award contract from S&K Aerospace, LLC to provide unmanned aerial target systems in support of the PROS IV (Parts and Repair Ordering System) Programme. Continue reading
Led by Paul Pounds from the University of Queensland, a team of roboticists created two designs to help record atmospheric conditions in the event of a forest fire. The disposable, self-steering UAS are essentially sensor modules that can be dropped over a forested area to relay environmental data that could indicate potential for fire. Continue reading
Vietnam is evaluating the purchase of Israeli-developed equipment, including advanced unmanned aircraft systems, with the maritime surveillance version of Israel Aerospace Industries’ Heron 1 being one candidate. Continue reading
Scion UAS, developers of VTOL unmanned and optionally piloted aircraft systems, has received FAA certification for the SA-400 Jackal optionally piloted vehicle. The vehicle, which can carry a 100 lb payload for more than 5 hours, received an FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate for Experimental Research and Development. Continue reading
During a keynote at the small unmanned systems business expo in San Francisco, California, on July 25th., Alta Devices’ CEO Christopher Norris explained that small unmanned aircraft Systems (UAS) are no longer constrained to short-range or limited flight times and are now able to fly as long as the sun is shining. Continue reading
US aerospace group Northrop Grumman called on Monday for Berlin to join the company in working to salvage the failed multimillion-euro euro project that has threatened the political life of the country‘s Defence Minister. Continue reading
Fresh photos of Marilyn Monroe have emerged showing the Hollywood pin-up ‘building’ drones for the US Army during World War II. At the time the photos were shot, in 1944 Monroe hadn’t yet taken up the famous stage name, nor had she dyed her curly locks blonde. Continue reading
Poland’s Deputy Defence Minister General Waldemar Skrzypczak has been stripped of his security clearance over suspicions that he gave preferential treatment for acquiring Israeli military equipment and over his close personal ties with Yedidia Yaari, the head of Israeli armaments maker Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Continue reading