Aurora Flight Sciences announced that the Skate Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) was recently deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom missions. Aurora’s role in supporting these military missions includes in-theatre training and logistics support. Continue reading
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General Atomics Get $13M US Air Force Lynx SAR Contract for MQ-9
General Atomics – Aeronautical Systems Inc. has been awarded a $12,844,738 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the MQ-9 stationary targeting improvements. Continue reading
Aeronautics Gets $20M Aerostar Contract for Unnamed Air Force
Aeronautics Defense Systems has won a contract for supplying the Aerostar Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to the air force of a southeastern country for more than $20 million. This is the first major deal led by the company’s new CEO, Amos Matan. Continue reading
General Atomics Gets $200M US Army Contract for Full Rate Production of MQ-1C Gray Eagle
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has been awarded a $199,746,895 firm-fixed-price, option-eligible, non-multi-year contract to provide MQ-1C Gray Eagle fiscal year 2013 full rate production and fiscal 2012 hardware backfill requirements applicable to the Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
Selex Gets UN Congo Peacekeeping Mission Contract for Falco
Selex ES was awarded, on 31 July, a service agreement by the United Nations for the provision of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) for 3 years with 2 optional years, in support of the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through the use of UAS, consisting of unmanned aircraft and associated enablers for information gathering/surveillance operations. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman and Carter Aviation Get $9M TERN Project Award
Northrop Grumman and Carter Aviation Technologies have been hired for a $9 million effort to conceptualize an armed UAS that will launch from a small ship to strike as far as 900 nautical miles away, according to the Pentagon. A test launch is slated for 2017. Continue reading
Nebraska University Gets Department of Agriculture Grant for Remote Water Testing UAS
When natural disaster next strikes, a UAS built by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers may fly in to check on the water supply where people cannot.A project underway at the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems Lab aims to build unmanned aircraft systems that can fly over difficult-to-reach bodies of water and collect samples for analysis. Continue reading
Mozambique Considers Domestic Production of UAS
Unmanned aircraft could be assembled in Mozambique, under collaboration between the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Engineering Faculty of the University of Oporto in Portugal, and Maputo’s Eduardo Mondlane University. Continue reading