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Japan will buy three Global Hawks and may fly them out of Misawa Air Base, according to Japanese media. State Broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo news agency reported Monday on plans to buy the Northrop Grumman-built Global Hawks along with four E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early-warning aircraft. Continue reading
GE Ventures is collaborating with San Francisco-based startup Airware, which is building hardware, software and services for commercial drones, and has invested an undisclosed amount of funding in the company. Continue reading
ING Robotic Aviation will receive nearly $349,000 from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) to develop its next generation of unmanned aircraft systems that are used for mapping and data collection.
UAS pilot trainer Strat Aero is spying out the lie of the land for a flotation on Aim. The firm has raised £650,000 in a placing at 8p a share, giving it a value of £6.2million. Trading in the stock was due to start yesterday. Continue reading
The US Marine Corps, which has largely relied on small tactical and hand-launched unmanned air systems, announced recently it is in the market for a larger, long-endurance type.
DJI is the leader in drones and the company just introduced a radical new model. The Inspire 1 builds upon the success of the Phantom and integrates some of the magic found in the firm’s professional-level drones, including the ability to stream 1080p video up to a mile away. Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $306 million contract to continue logistics and sustainment services on the high altitude, long endurance (HALE) RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted autonomous unmanned aircraft intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system.
Lockheed Martin’s partner Altavian Inc. has been awarded a $4 million contract to provide gimbaled sensor payloads for the Army’s RQ-20 Puma small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). These payloads will feature the Lockheed Martin Procerus Technologies Perceptor gimballed imaging sensor, which provides advanced stabilization and sharper images, along with dual-band imaging and laser illumination capabilities. Continue reading