Israeli and British security sources have confirmed in recent days that the Royal Air Force has been considering buying a number of Heron TP (also known as the Eitan) systems, since the Mantis, a joint British-French unmanned strategic project, has been delayed and will not be operational before 2020. Continue reading
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Advanced Defense Technologies Takes Delivery of Halberd UAS
Advanced Defense Technologies, Inc. and Halberd Corporation announced the delivery of the first of several unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
ReconRobotics Acquires Xollai
ReconRobotics announced that it acquired St. Paul systems engineering firm Xollai, a move that will expand its portfolio of technologies. Continue reading
Defense Engineering Corp Gets $24M Sense-and-Avoid Contract from US Air Force
The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awarded a six-year $24.1 million contract to Defense Engineering Corp. to develop advanced sensing equipment to prevent mid-air collision between aircraft. Continue reading
DARPA Director Regina Dugan to Join Google
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Continue reading
CSC Gets US Navy Video as a Service Contract for UAS
The U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded CSC an Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) contract to deliver streaming Video as a Service. Continue reading
Bell & AAI Team on Manned-Unmanned Operations Lab
Bell Helicopter and Textron Systems operating unit AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, both Textron Inc. companies have teamed to develop a Manned Unmanned Operations (MUMO) Capability Development Laboratory in Huntsville, AL. to enable a software and hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) development test capability using operationally relevant systems specific to manned unmanned teaming. Continue reading
Fat Head Solutions – a New One-Stop Shop for the sUAS Market
A new company, Fat Head Solutions, LLC with bases in Wichita Kansas and two other major operating locations, will provide low cost, high value, and complete subsystem solutions for small unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading