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NUAIR Alliance Partners with Unifly

Major General Marke F. “Hoot” Gibson (ret), chief executive officer of the NUAIR Alliance (left) signs partnership agreement with Marc Kegelaers, CEO of Unifly (right)

The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR Alliance) and Griffiss International Airport announced a new partnership with Unifly, a European company with a unique software application that enables unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems to visualize and manage drone traffic in the airspace. The partnership will provide enhanced unmanned traffic management capabilities for the NY UAS Test Site 50-mile UTM Corridor currently being constructed. Continue reading →

GA-ASI Gets $123M MQ-9 Order for France

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $123,000,000 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the France 3rd/4th Systems MQ-9 Block 5 procurement program. Continue reading →

Aeronautics Rejects $117M Buyout Offer from Rafael

Israel’s Aeronautics, which makes military unmanned aerial vehicles, has rejected a 430 million shekel ($117 million) acquisition offer from state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and businessman Avihai Stolero. Continue reading →

GA-ASI Gets $11M US Army Gray Eagle Contract

General Atomics Aeronautical System Inc., was awarded an $11,096,457 modification (P00120) to contract W58RGZ-13-C-0110 for sub-engineering service memorandums in support of the Gray Eagle aircraft system. Continue reading →

Insitu Gets $54M Blackjack Order for US Marines

Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is awarded a $53,965,378 firm-fixed-price contract to procure four full-rate production, Lot II RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems and eight attrition air vehicles; seven for the Marine Corps and one for the government of Poland. Continue reading →

General Atomics Gets $134M MDA Contract to Develop New MQ-9 Sensor

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, San Diego, California, is being awarded a competitive cost-plus-award fee contract with a total value of $133,969,081. Continue reading →

Largest GIS Project in West Africa

Under the pioneering Lagos Enterprise Geographic Information Systems, e-GIS, upgrade and Integrated Land Administration and Automation System Project, “Lagos eGIS Project”, Asseco Software Nigeria has sealed a deal with the Lagos State Government to procure Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, “UAVs”, to capture and update orthophotogrammetric data. Continue reading →

Autonomous Flight Startup Xwing Raises $4M

Xwing, an autonomous aviation company, has announced the closing of a $4M seed round. Led by Eniac Ventures with participation from Array Ventures and prominent angels and aviation buffs, including John and Patrick Collison, founders of Stripe, as well as Nat Friedman of Xamarin, Microsoft and GitHub. Continue reading →