Leading Japanese infrastructure companies will end their use of Chinese-made drones, joining in the government’s efforts to curb the potential security risks. Continue reading
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Northrop Grumman Gets $58M Support Contract for Global Hawk in Japan
Northrop Grumman Defense Services, Sierra Vista, Arizona, has been awarded a $58,546,016 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract for the Japan Global Hawk program. Continue reading
AeroVironment Gets $22M DARPA Contract
AeroVironment Inc., Simi Valley, California, was awarded a $21,779,908 cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research project. Continue reading
Astro Aerospace to Acquire Horizon Aircraft
Astro Aerospace Ltd., a developer of eVTOL aerial vehicles and drones, and Horizon Aircraft Inc., a developer of advanced eVTOLs, have entered into an agreement under which Astro will acquire privately held Horizon for five million common shares of Astro stock, the material terms of which are disclosed in the Company’s related 8-K filing. Continue reading
Jetoptera Gets US Air Force Development Awards
Jetoptera was recently awarded two 2021 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contracts from the USAF to further characterize the noise of its patented Fluidic Propulsive System (FPS) in an anechoic chamber wind tunnel and to prove that the FPS used with an Upper Surface Blown Wing (USB) configuration will produce specific lift force levels similar to those of a rotor-wing aircraft, yet without moving parts. Continue reading
Kenya Airways and Skyports to Launch Drone Delivery Service in Kenya
Advanced air mobility (AAM) company Skyports has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the flag carrier airline of Kenya, Kenya Airways, to collaborate on launching permanent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations in the country. Joint efforts have already begun across drone delivery and inspection use cases. Continue reading
Pen Aviation to Integrate Sagetech Avionics and Detect and Avoid System
Sagetech Avionics, an aerospace technology company providing industry-leading situational awareness solutions for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), and Pen Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to integrate Sagetech Avionics’ MXS transponders and Detect and Avoid (DAA) systems into the PEN 55V midsize drone and the PEN 1360V heavy cargo drone. Continue reading
AeroVironment Gets $13M US Army Switchblade 300 Support Contract
AeroVironment, Inc. announced that it received a $13,010,560 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract order on March 24, 2021 from the U.S. Army for Switchblade 300 tactical missile systems contractor logistics support. Continue reading







