NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP) Aerospace Academy (MAA) has selected seven Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) for cooperative agreement awards totalling nearly $2.3 million. Continue reading
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Cape and San Diego Publicly Deploy Drone in City’s First UAS Integration Pilot Program Flight
Cloud-based drone telepresence and data management company Cape has partnered with the City of San Diego for a public drone deployment that markets the city’s first UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP)demonstration by the San Diego Fire Department. Continue reading
Cyberhawk Completes First ABS Class Survey and Inspection of an Oil Tanker
Cyberhawk has successfully completed the first full ABS Intermediate Hull Survey 4 on an oil tanker using UAVs. Continue reading
Blue Bear and Cranfield to Create Drone Experiment Corridor
Drones and unmanned aircraft will be able to fly in the same airspace as manned aircraft under plans announced by Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd and Cranfield University.
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Goshawk Destroys Rogue Drones by Brute Force
Israeli startup RoboTiCan Ltd.’s solution to attack drones? Sending a bigger drone to hunt them down midair. RoboTiCan’s drone can detect, intercept, and crash into hostile drones, destroying them. Continue reading
Two Drones Downed Near Russian Airbase in Syria
Two drones launched by militants have been downed by the Russian military near the Hmeymim airbase in Syria, according to the chief of the Russia Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties Alexei Tsygankov. Continue reading
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