AeroVironment has received a firm fixed-price order for 12 hybrid small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (Försvarets Materielverk) on behalf of the Swedish Army. Continue reading
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Poland Set to Spend $300M on UAS by 2018
Poland’s Ministry of Defence has announced plans to acquire between 123 and 205 UAS by 2018, reported local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, at a cost of at least 1 billion zloty ($295 million). Continue reading
Raytheon Gets $28M US Navy Contract for Linux Ground Control Stations
Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems has been awarded a $27,883,883 cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price contract for efforts required to complete Linux transition on the tactical control system software for vertical take-off unmanned aircraft ground control stations. Continue reading
Iraqi Navy UAS Use Hood Imaging Systems
The UAS imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the southern coast of the country. Continue reading
Cornell Engineers Develop Algorithm for Robot Hand
When Cornell engineers developed a new type of robot hand that could pick up oddly shaped objects it presented a challenge: It was easy for a human operator to choose the best place to take hold of an object, but an autonomous robot, like the ones we may someday have helping around the home or office, would need a new kind of programming. So they have developed a procedure — an algorithm — that allows a robot to learn grasping skills from experience and apply them in new situations. Continue reading
ICAO’s Twelfth Air Navigation Conference
The International Civil Aviation Organization will be holding the 12th Air Navigation Conference (AN-Conf/12) in Montréal, from 19 to 30 November 2012 with participation of its Member States and invited international organisations. Continue reading
INFOTRON’s IT180 mini UAS Will Secure French ISAF Troop Convoys in Afghanistan
After a consultation to respond to an operational emergency, a tender has been won by INFOTRON and TOSA, and several systems have been ordered by the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) for the French Army. Continue reading
K-Max Performs Hot Hookups in Afghanistan
Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2 performing the first ever mid flight, unmanned helicopter external cargo hook ups, or “hot Hook Ups”, with landing support team Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 5. Continue reading