The goal of the Shrike programme is to demonstrate the feasibility and practicality of man-packable perch-and-stare micro air vehicles to provide real-time persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to small unit commanders.
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Northrop Grumman Gets $10M US Navy Contract for MQ-8B Fire Scout Logistic Support Services
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is being awarded a $10,474,708 cost plus fixed fee contract for logistics in support of the Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) MQ-8B Fire Scout system. Continue reading
New Opportunities for UAS in the Government Market
An interesting article in Government Technology magazine identified 5 Emerging Technologies that could soon be introduced to the Government Market – one of these is unmanned aircraft…
Announcing 13th UAS TAAC Conference in New Mexico
Thirteen years ago, New Mexico State University held its first UAS TAAC (Technical Analysis and Applications Center) conference, primarily focused on the civil use of UAS in the United States. The conference was one of a very few UAS conferences held in the United States at the time.
Rainbow Services Offers Customised UAS Pipeline Surveillance System
Serial entrepreneur Hans-Christian Stuber left SwissCopter AG at the end of 2010 to set up a new business at the beginning of 2011, Rainbow Services, one of the first European consultants in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems applications.
ShadowHawk Approved by Homeland Security for Use in the United States
The Sheriff’s Office of Montgomery County, Texas was recently awarded a grant by the Department of Homeland Security for a squadron of ShadowHawks.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Tests Draganflyer to Replace Helicopters
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is testing a Draganflyer to hover over crash sites and crime scenes to take photos or beam video back to officers on the ground. The remote-controlled unmanned aircraft should help crash analysts get better, faster images to reconstruct what happened.
European Commission Adopts Eurocontrol’s Surveillance Performance and Interoperability (SPI) and Aircraft Identification (ACID) Proposals
The European Commission is proceeding with the formal adoption process of the Surveillance Performance and Interoperability (SPI) and Aircraft Identification (ACID) rules after the Single European Sky Committee approved implementation last Thursday in Brussels.