At the RPAS 2014 conference in Brussels, Belgium on June 24th, Filippo Tomasello of EASA will discuss EASA’s view of the European Commission’s European RPAS Roadmap Initiative.
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California UAS Summit – San Diego
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The California UAS Summit took place in San Diego on Tuesday, June 10. California is a Center of Excellence for the development, manufacturing, and testing of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). From industry leaders General Atomics, Kratos Defense Solutions, and Northrop Grumman’s Center for Unmanned Systems headquartered in San Diego, as well as The Boeing Company, and AeroVironment in Los Angeles County, major UAS has a history in California.
RPAS 2014 – The European RPAS Roadmap in Detail
At the RPAS 2014 conference in Brussels, Belgium on June 23rd, Jean-Pierre Lentz, of EC dG Enterprise & Industry and Koen de Vos, EC dG Mobility & Transport will provide an overview of the European Commission’s European RPAS Roadmap Initiative. Continue reading
Swarming UAS are the Future
Small unmanned aircraft operating in swarms can be a boon in post-disaster or search-and-rescue operations, but the current state of technology poses some problems, said Vijay Kumar, the UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Continue reading
The European Approach to Civil RPAS at the RPAS 2014 Conference
The opening day of the UVS International RPAS 2014 conference in Brussels on 23 June 2014 will be dedicated to National RPAS community views on current commercial RPAS operations and will feature 10 presentations from 10 different countries. Continue reading
Explaining the European Approach To Civil RPAS
On 23 June 2014, the RPAS 2014 conference in Brussels, Belgium will be opened with a speech by Mr Siim Kallas, Vice President of the European Commission & Commissioner for Transport. The RPAS 2014 conference, which is coordinated with ICAO, European Commission, European RPAS Steering Group, EASA, SESAR JU, EUROCONTROL, EDA, JARUS, ECAC, and the International RPAS Coordination Council, will be Europe’s most important RPAS event in 2014. Continue reading
Next-Gen UAS – Armed, Modular and Smaller
Asked what market trends he sees for the future, Michael Blades, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan, told an audience at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) annual conference, that the ability to defend itself in contested environments is No. 1 on his list. Continue reading
6th Unmanned Systems Canada UAV Student Competition Winners Announced
Eleven university student teams from across Canada competed in the Operational Phase of the 6th Unmanned Systems Canada UAV Student Competition hosted by Southport Aerospace Centre, south of Portage la Prairie MB. Congratulations to VAMUdeS – Université de Sherbrooke for winning 1st Place on May 4, 2014. Continue reading