The replacement of the Australian Army’s Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) through project LAND 129 Phase 3 has progressed to the tendering process. Continue reading
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Aerial Applications Gets $6M of USAF R&D Funding
An unmanned aerial system flies over Camp Bullis, Texas, during a field test Sept. 4. The UAS was equipped with Light Detection and Ranging, multi-spectral sensors and machine-learning algorithms
Aerial Applications, a software company specializing in GPU-accelerated data processing of drone imagery to make maps, has been awarded the US Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II B Strategic Fund Increase Pilot Program. Continue reading
Altitude Angel and INVOLI Form a Strategic Partnership
Altitude Angel, a world-wide UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) technology provider and INVOLI, a low-altitude air traffic data provider, are to form a strategic partnership which will give ANSPs, operators, pilots and drone-centric risk management applications, an unrivalled picture of airspace. The partnership will help define the requirements for UTM both now and in the future. Continue reading
Downed Turkish Drone Found in Idlib
The Anna News Agency released a new photo that showed the remains of a Turkish drone that was shot down by a Russian-made air defense system in Syria. Continue reading
USAF Announces AFVentures with $1B in Small Business Contracts
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Will Roper recently announced the creation of AFVentures, which will serve as an “umbrella organization for the Air Force’s efforts to work with small businesses to fund critical technologies for the warfighter,” according to a release. Continue reading
Alpha Umanned Systems Develops Own Test Bench
Alpha knows that reliability improves “minute-by-minute,” – Madrid based Alpha Unmanned System, SL announced that its High Accelerated Lifetime Testing (HALT) solution is now in production. Continue reading
EHang Expands in Europe with First UAM Program in Seville, Spain
Mr. Juan Espadas Cejas, Mayor of Seville and Mr. Hu Huazhi, Founder, Chairman and CEO of EHang in the signing ceremony on March 10, 2020
EHang Holdings Limited announced that the company entered into a cooperation agreement with the city government of Seville, Spain to execute the first Urban Air Mobility (UAM) pilot program in Spain. Continue reading
Orbital Gets MoU to Supply Engines to Singapore
Orbital Corporation Ltd has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with one of Singapore’s largest defence companies, for the design, development and initial low rate production of multi-fuel engines for unmanned air vehicles. Continue reading