The Aerospace & Defense sector for Canaccord Genuity, a global investment bank, has just published a follow-on report to its ‘Age of Autonomy’ whitepaper on unmanned systems.
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DroneShield Approved for Police Use in Europe
DroneShield’s DroneGun Tactical deployed by the French Army
DroneShield has advised that, following a competitive tender, its DroneGun Tactical product was selected as the preferred solution by the European Union police forces. Continue reading
Draganfly to Buy Aerial Mining Survey Companies
Draganfly Inc. announced that it has entered into a letter of intent with Global UAV Technologies Inc. to acquire two-wholly owned subsidiaries, being Pioneer Aerial Surveys Ltd. and High Eye Aerial Imaging Inc… Continue reading
US Air Force Seeks Proposals for Potential $400M Skyborg UAV Prototyping Program
Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie is a potential platform to carry the Skyborg system
The U.S. Air Force has issued a broad agency announcement to seek technical proposals for a potential $400M program that aims to advance prototyping and experimentation work on Skyborg unmanned air vehicles. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Gets $9M US Navy Target Drone Order
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Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is awarded a $9,162,847 modification (P00002) to cost-plus-fixed-fee order N00019-19-F-0280 against previously issued basic ordering agreement N00019-15-G-0026. Continue reading
EHang and LN Holdings Open World’s First ‘UAM’ Theme Hotel
EHang Holdings Limited announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with LN Holdings, a Shenzhen-listed tourism platform company, to further commercialize its AAVs by integrating Urban Air Mobility (“UAM”) solutions into the latter’s hotel/tourism businesses. Continue reading
Ukrspecsystems Launches UAS Components Division
In response to the growing demand from customers to use parts and components that were firstly introduced in the PD-1 UAS for their own projects, Ukrspecsystems decided to launch a new subdivision. Continue reading
AeroVironment Gets $146 M US Army Switchblade Contract
AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the receipt of a one-year, $75,930,901 funded contract award on April 30, 2020 from the United States Army for procurement of the company’s Switchblade loitering missile system. Continue reading