General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. is being awarded $26,767,748 firm-fixed-price (86 percent) cost plus incentive fee (14 percent) contract for the Predator Primary Data Link configuration upgrades on MD-1A/B ground control station retrofit kits. Continue reading
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Aurora’s Additive Manufacturing Wing
Aurora Flight Sciences‘ 3D wing, designed by Aurora and built with additive manufacturing technology developed by Stratasys Inc., was showcased at last week’s announcement of the new National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) by senior officials of the Obama administration. Continue reading
AAI Gets $46.5M Shadow Data Link Retrofit Kits Contract from US Army
AAI Corp. was awarded a $46,524,041 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for the modification of an existing contract to procure tactical command data link retrofit kits for the Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
UTC Aerospace Systems Gets Autopilots and Payload Contract for AAI Aerosonde
UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp.,has received a contract from AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems to supply Cloud Cap Technology autopilots, stabilized camera payloads, ground station software components and flight management software from its business in Hood River, Ore. Continue reading
US Air Force Selects MLB/AAI/BYU to Develop Long-Endurance VTOL Tier II-Size UAS
The US Air Force has announced that the MLB V-Bat VTOL UAA has been selected for a Phase II SBIR award. Continue reading
Dynamics Research Corporation Gets $13M US Air Force Support Contract
Dynamics Research Corporation, a provider of management consulting, engineering, science and technology solutions to federal and state governments, yesterday announced it has been awarded a contract by the Army Contracting Command – National Capital Region to support the Air Force Medium Altitude Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office. Continue reading
Elbit Sells Hermes 900 and Hermes 450 UAS to Latin America for Tens of Millions of Dollars
Elbit Systems Ltd. and TASE: ESLT, announced over the weekend that it was awarded a contract valued at many tens of millions of dollars, to supply a Latin American customer with a mixed fleet of Hermes 900 and Hermes 450 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The contract will be performed over the next two years. Continue reading
Singular Aircraft Unveils Low Cost Unmanned Amphibious Twin-Engined Aircraft
Singular Aircraft has announced that it is developing a low cost unmanned, amphibious, twin-engined aircraft able to land and take off from short unpaved airstrips & water. Continue reading