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Scientists have devised a series of novel and inexpensive attacks that can severely disrupt mission-critical global positioning systems relied on by the military and a variety of industrial players, including airlines, mining companies, and operators of hydroelectric plants and other critical infrastructure. Continue reading
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Ars Technica Futurelab Germany is using a system developed for tracking sports players to position their quadrocopters. It offers a much higher degree of accuracy than GPS based systems and works indoors or outside. Continue reading
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FASTCOM is developed by Textron affiliates and partners. Continue reading
The soldiers of Company A, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico are flying UAS with new upgrades as part of Network Integration Evaluation 13.1 to better assist service members in the fight. Continue reading
Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it has successfully completed integration between its ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and the McQ iScout Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) and OmniWatch technologies. Continue reading
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into UAS video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn’t secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reapers, Danger Room has learned. Continue reading
Aurora Flight Sciences and SRI International Sarnoff have announced the integration of the SRI Sarnoff DL Micro digital data link and video processor into the Aurora Skate Small Unmanned Aerial System (SUAS). Continue reading
Rockwell Collins has been selected as the prime contractor for the unmanned aircraft portion of the High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) programme sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Continue reading