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Total Market for Electric Unmanned Aircraft Systems Will Reach over $1 Billion by 2023
The total market value for electric unmanned aircraft systems will reach over one Billion dollars by 2023 according to findings in the new IDTechEx report, Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) 2013-2023.
UAS Spotters Guide
Amsterdam-based designer Ruben Pater has created the Drone Survival Guide, a poster featuring to-scale silhouettes of common UAS and tips for spotting them in the style of traditional bird or airplane spotting guides. Continue reading
US DoD Roadmap Highlights
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DoD inventories and funding of UAS are expected to continue a gradual upward trend through 2015 and then trend downward in 2016 and beyond, although UAS experienced a full $1.3 billion (33.4%) reduction from fiscal year (FY) 2013 to PB2014 in combined research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) and procurement funding. Continue reading
Worldwide Spend on UAS to Double to $12Billion Over Ten Years
Worldwide spending for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) will double over the next decade, rising from $5.2 billion in 2014 to $11.9 billion in 2023, predict analysts at market researcher the Teal Group Corp. Continue reading
The Glass Ceiling for Remotely Piloted Aircraft
“Those who by valorous ways become princes, like these men, acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.” —Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513. Continue reading
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Issues Report on “Use of UAS in Journalism”
The use of remotely piloted aircraft for aerial photography and video in journalism will increase significantly in the coming years, according to a new report from the Reuters Institute. Continue reading
Raytheon Delivers Jamming Payloads for Gray Eagle
Raytheon Company has delivered two electronic attack payloads in support of the U.S. Army’s Networked Electronic Warfare, Remotely Operated (NERO) system. The payloads were delivered as part of a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy NAVSEA-Crane in 2012. Continue reading