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
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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
Advanced Defense Technologies and AeroSpy Joint Venture on Sense-and-Avoid Technology
Advanced Defense Technologies, Inc. has announced that the Company has entered into a joint venture agreement with AeroSpy, an Austria-based leading technology supplier in the field of navigation, motion tracking, and mobile robotics, to develop and commercialize the first fully certified Sense & Avoid System that would allow the integration of mission-specific UAS into civilian airspace. Continue reading
Defense Research Associates Gets $5M US Air Force Sense-and-Avoid Contract
Defense Research Associates, Inc. (DRA), a small, veteran-owned company, has been awarded a $5 million small business contract for the U.S. Air Force as an ongoing effort to develop and demonstrate technology to prevent mid-air collisions between aircraft. Continue reading