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senseFly Joins AgGateway – a Non-Profit Consortium for the Agriculture Industry

senseFly has joined AgGateway, becoming the first UAV manufacturer to join this non-profit consortium of businesses that serve the agriculture industry. As an official AgGateway member, senseFly has already joined AgGateway’s Precision Ag Council. This will allow the company to collaborate closely with other council members to help define appropriate standards, guidelines and implementation protocols, which will, in turn, improve the integration of UAV data into the precision agriculture workflow. Continue reading →

MQ-1’s and MQ-9’s at Holloman AFB

Video by Airman 1st Class JaoTorey Johnson Holloman Air Force Base Public Affairs Office
MQ-1’s and MQ-9’s sitting on the flight line of Holloman AFB, Aug 20. Continue reading →

Insitu Gets $11M ScanEagle Contract for Yemen

Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded $10,976,866 for firm-fixed-price delivery order 0007 against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N68335-11-G-0009) for the procurement of one ScanEagle System that consists of nine ScanEagle Electro-Optics and three ScanEagle Infra-red Unmanned Air Vehicles for the government of Yemen under the Foreign Military Sales program. Continue reading →

Watchkeeper Begins Combat ISTAR Missions Over Afghanistan

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced the first operational flights in Afghanistan of Thales’s unmanned air system, Watchkeeper. This new capability is providing force protection for British troops as they prepare to draw down from Afghanistan by the end of this year. Continue reading →

Aurora Gets Phase 1B Funding to Continue Development of DARPA VTOL X-Plane Programme

Aurora Flight Sciences announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the company Phase 1B funding to continue participation in the DARPA Vertical Take Off and Landing Experiment Plane (VTOL X-Plane) programme. The award is intended to carry Aurora’s participation in the project through a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) milestone in October 2015. Continue reading →

Vietnam Acquires Orbiter 2

Vietnam has acquired the Orbiter 2 unmanned air system (UAS) for use as an aerial forward observation asset for its artillery corps. Continue reading →

Snakebot and QuadCopter Combo for Search and Rescue

Everyone has different ideas on what the perfect search-and-rescue robot is, and for a University of Pennsylvania Mod Lab team, it comes in the form of a snake drone-quadcopter chimera. The Hybrid Exploration Robot for Air and Land Deployment or H.E.R.A.L.D. is composed of two snake-like machines that attach via magnets to a UAV. Continue reading →

Micro Systems Gets $5M US Navy Control System Order

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that its Micro Systems, Inc. subsidiary of the Kratos Unmanned Systems Division (KUSD) recently received a delivery order from the U.S. Navy valued at $4.8 million for unmanned aerial system command and control systems and services.

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