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General Atomics Expands Footprint at Grand Sky

U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, center, hosted an event at the Grand Sky UAS aviation park with General Atomics CEO Linden Blue, left, and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Blue signed a lease agreement expanding the company’s Flight Test and Training Center. – PHOTO: OFFICE OF U.S. SEN. JOHN HOEVEN

Grand Sky, the first and only fully operational civil unmanned aerial systems (UAS)-focused research and development park in the U.S., announced tenant General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will significantly expand the company’s presence on the property. Continue reading →

Insitu Gets Potential $232M Special Ops Order

Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, has been awarded a $5,000 minimum, $232,000,000 maximum additional task order under an existing non-competitive, single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (H92222-16-D-0031) for mid-endurance unmanned aircraft systems (MEUAS II-B) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services. Continue reading →

NASA – Integrating Unmanned Aircraft with Manned Aircraft in the National Airspace

NASA has been leading efforts designed to help integrate unmanned aircraft into the world around us. On June 12, NASA completed a major program milestone by successfully demonstrating the maturity of Detect and Avoid (DAA) technology by flying an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) out in the National Airspace System (NAS). Continue reading →

US Army Orders Lockheed Martin CUAS Sytems

The Army is planning to purchase a Counter Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) from Lockheed Martin with the goal to “field UAS with payloads capable of negating adversary UAS,” the Army said in its solicitation notice. Continue reading →

Kongsberg Geospatial Concludes UTM System Trials with Transport Canada

Kongsberg Geospatial Ltd., an Ottawa-based developer of geospatial visualization software, announced today the conclusion of the final trials of a new situational awareness system for emergency airspace management, in a project funded by Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC). Continue reading →

Project Wing Completes First Long-Distance, Residential Drone Delivery in US

Project Wing completed the first long-distance, residential drone delivery in the United States Tuesday. In this historical first, Brianna Smith’s two-year-old son Jack received an aerial delivery of ice cream and a Popsicle, a mere six minutes after a Wing technician confirmed the order through the company’s smartphone app. Continue reading →

UgCS and Airborne Response Develop Improved Search Pattern

UgCS, a provider of mission planning software for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), together with public safety and disaster response UAS experts Airborne Response, have developed a comprehensive search capability for drones that will allow remote pilots to more effectively conduct search and rescue operations using the UgCS platform. Continue reading →

Brisbane to Get 10 Drone Launch Pads

Drones are set to become a common fixture in the Brisbane sky, with 10 launch pads to be permanently rolled across the city. It follows a surge in demand from drone enthusiasts who have taken part in Brisbane City Council’s Australian first trial of the drone zone parks since December last year.

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