Co-founder Lucas van Oostrum formally announced Delft Aerial Robotics’s plans to execute an autonomous drone network in the Netherlands within the next year. DAR has strategically invested in start-ups that solve problems related to full autonomy for drones. Now, DAR has revealed its true objective: to deploy autonomous drone networks that are truly self-sufficient without human interaction.
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Tunisia to Receive Further ScanEagles
Tunisia is set to receive additional Insitu ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) deal revealed by the US government on 18 July.
Skycap and Skeye Merge to Form Skeye
Skycap and Skeye announced the merger of their two companies, continuing under the name ‘Skeye‘.
UTC Aerospace Next-Gen Sensor for Global Hawk
UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. has been awarded a contract to support the integration and testing of the MS-177 multi-spectral imaging (MSI) and long-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensor onto the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).
UK, Leonardo Sign Deal for Unmanned Helicopter Tech
Work on an unmanned rotor-wing technology demonstrator is set to get underway following the signing of a deal between Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s Helicopter Division and the British Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Honeywell and IAI Team to Develop Sense-And-Avoid
Carey Smith, President, Defense and Space, Honeywell Aerospace; Joseph Weiss, President and CEO, Israel Aerospace Industries
Honeywell is partnering with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to jointly develop a sense-and-avoid capability for IAI’s Heron family of unmanned aerial systems (UASs). Selected for funding from the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, the system will be demonstrated for the first time on the Heron medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAS platform in 2018. The team was selected following a competitive review process that evaluated projects from many companies.
DARPA Funds PARC to Develop Vanishing AUVs
PARC, a Xerox company, announced it has received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its ICARUS program.
Cubic Watchkeeper Data Links Support Contract Extended
Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS), a newly formed business division of Cubic Corporation has announced a three-year extension award of $1.4 million from UAV Tactical Systems Ltd. (U-TacS) to provide additional Tactical Common Data Links (TCDL) for U.K. Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Watchkeeper Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) program.