The UAS Flight Training & Simulation Market 2011-2021 Report from Visiongain offers a comprehensive analysis of the global market for UAS operator flight training and simulation products and services. Visiongain’s calculations indicate that sales in the global UAS flight training and simulation market will be worth $375m in 2011.
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Georgia Tech Researchers Examine Foreign COTS UAS
Georgia Tech Research Institute officials were gathered on May 12-13 for another examination of a foreign-made unmanned aircraft system built with off-the-shelf commercial parts.
New, Improved Autopilots from Micropilot
MicroPilot introduces the MP2128g2 and MP2128HELI2, MicroPilot’s newest, more enhanced versions of its board level autopilots. Available in both fixed wing, MP2128g2, and helicopter versions, MP2128HELI2, these autopilots are MicroPilot’s newest premium autopilot.
DARPA Challenge Offers Public $100,000 for Small Unmanned Aircraft
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) call on innovators of every kind – scientists, engineers, citizen scientists and dreamers to collaborate on the UAVForge Challenge and win $100,000.
Insitu Gets $83M Support Contract for ScanEagle
Insitu Incorporated is being awarded a more than $83 million contract for operations and maintenance services in support of government-owned ScanEagle UAS.
US Forces ‘Empire Challenge’ Promotes Intelligence Interoperability
Firebird optionally piloted systems, RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems, and Desert Hawk unmanned aircraft systemsare among the technologies being tested during U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Empire Challenge 2011 demonstration.
NMSU Conducts 4 Dimension Test Flights with AAI Shadow
New Mexico State University’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center supported AAI Corporation’s Shadow 200 Tactical UAS in conducting flights over the skies of Hatch, N.M. These were four-dimensional flight tests in support of efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration Tech Center to further UAS flights in the National Airspace System.
Selex Develops Platform-Agnostic Integration System Sensor Concept
The UK Ministry of Defence’s requirement for an unmanned surveillance system, dubbed Scavenger, could result in the first aircraft to carry the “platform-agnostic integration system” sensor concept being developed by Selex Galileo for medium-altitude, long-endurance and larger air vehicles.