UAS VISION
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Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced that it has extended and expanded its existing Australian Defence Force contract with the Australian Army to include the provision of ScanEagle UAS services for trials with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Continue reading
France’s imminent decisions on UAS procurement will have a disproportionate influence on future European unmanned aircraft programmes, and will likely determine whether Europe can catch up with Israel and the United States, whose industries currently dominate the sector. Continue reading
Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced that it has signed a contract to deliver ScanEagle UAS to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) for comprehensive operational evaluation by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). Continue reading
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, has announced a further export customer for its Falco Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
The Boeing Company and Elbit Systems signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Farnborough Airshow to collaborate on the marketing and sales of Elbit Systems’ Hermes 450 and 900 product lines in the United States and select international countries. Continue reading
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems announced that it has received a $358 million award from the U.S. Army’s Program Manager – Unmanned Aircraft Systems for engineering support and system upgrades that will create a fleet of 45 upgraded RQ-7B Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS). Continue reading
Software engineers at the Raytheon Co. Intelligence and Information Systems segment in Garland, Texas, will continue a project to convert application code in the U.S. Navy Tactical Control System (TCS) for unmanned aircraft from the proprietary Solaris operating system to the open-systems Linux operating system under terms of a $27.9 million contract awarded last week. Continue reading
Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced that it was awarded a contract to provide its ScanEagle to the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). Continue reading