Author Archives: The Editor

Xandem’s Security Sensors Can See Through Walls

Xandem founder Joey Wilson shows off the company’s motion-detecting sensor nodes.

Xandem is building a new kind of all-seeing motion-detection system that’s poised to shake up the security market. Continue reading →

DARPA Seeks Radar That ‘Sees’ Through Clouds

DARPA is looking for partners to develop a radar detection system that can lock onto moving targets even through clouds and dust, according to a contracting document. Continue reading →

MQ-9 Reaper Operations – Video

This 15-minute video shows an MQ-9 Reaper taking off and landing at Wheeler Sack Army Airfield (WSAAF) at Fort Drum, New York on 05 April 2012. Continue reading →

AeroVironment Gets $5.5M Puma Contract from US Marines

AeroVironment has announced that the U.S. Marine Corps is the first military service to adopt four different small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from the company with the receipt of a firm fixed-price order valued at $5,558,479 for the RQ-20A Puma AE through an existing U.S. Army contract. Delivery is scheduled within two weeks. Continue reading →

DARPA HTV-2 – Aeroshell Degradation Caused Flight Termination

An unexpected degree of aero-shell degradation was “the most probable cause” of the premature flight termination of DARPA’s Hypersonic Technology Vehicle during a flight over the Pacific Ocean last August, according to the findings of the agency’s independent engineering review board. Continue reading →