Nokia is actively working alongside a university in Sydney on brainstorming use-cases for drones in the agriculture and public safety sectors, as well as establishing a reliable drone network for Australian airspace. Continue reading
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LG Uplus Enters Drone Business in Korea
LG Uplus vice chairman and CEO Kwon Young-soo
Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus will foster drone business as one of its new growth drivers by expanding its fledgling aerial robotics to a wide range of businesses in the public and private sectors, including transportation, logistics and safety inspections, powered by its nationwide wireless network. Continue reading
Insitu and Amazon Web Services Demo Large Data-set Pre-processing without Internet Connectivity
This LiDAR image was taken in less than one hour of flight, during which more than one linear kilometer of a wall was mapped, providing the customer with easy-to-access, actionable data that can be shared across its state-based operations in Australia.
Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, recently celebrated a successful trial deployment of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Snowball Edge in Queensland, Australia. AWS Snowball is a service that accelerates transferring large amounts of data into and out of AWS using physical storage appliances, bypassing the internet. Continue reading
DARPA’s CODE Program Moves to Phase3
DARPA’s Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program aims to extend the capability of the U.S. military’s existing unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to conduct dynamic, long-distance engagements of highly mobile ground and maritime targets in contested or denied battlespaces. Continue reading
General Atomics Gets $14M USAF MQ-9 Datalink Contract
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $14,151,324 cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price undefinitized contract action modification (P00021) to a previously awarded contract (FA8620-16-C-3003) for the MQ-9 Block 5 kits, to include extended-range kits, beyond-line-of-sight kits and Barrett Asymmetrical Digital Datalink Computer Routers. Continue reading
Intelsat EpicNG Beam Switching Test Success on MQ-9
Intelsat General, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intelsat, operator of the world’s first Globalized Network, has announced that it had successfully demonstrated beam switching capabilities of an in-flight unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operating on the company’s Intelsat 29e satellite. Continue reading
L3 to Produce UAS Tech Platforms for Army Apache Manned-Unmanned Teaming Program
L3 Technologies announced that it has received a production contract for multiple awards totalling $97 million in support of the U.S. Army’s Apache Manned/Unmanned Teaming – eXpanded Capabilities (MUMT-X) helicopter program. Continue reading
Small Antennas Could Bring Big Benefits to US Air Force
When it comes to military and consumer electronics, smaller is often better, and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s revolutionary new antenna design is promising to make military electronics much better. Continue reading