Darpa’s Kathleen Fisher told the agency’s first-ever Cyber Colloqium, a gathering that seeks to enlist hackers’ ideas, that the usual picture of cyberattacks involves hackers — maybe sponsored by a government — trying to penetrate a data network, is too narrow a conception. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
New Mexico State University Psychology Professor Researches Guidelines for UAS Pilots
A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying unmanned aircraft and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. Continue reading
Solar Panels Power Glider Controls for Indefinite Flight
Marine Corps Captains Derek Snyder and Dino Cooper, who recently graduated from the Systems Engineering course at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, have designed an unmanned aircraft that is effectively a glider that can fly indefinitely. Continue reading
DARPA UAVForge Competition – Contestant Number 7
This the entry from icarusLabs, a team of 10 MIT engineers with specialities in aerospace, control systems and artificial intelligence. Continue reading
Japan’s Unmanned Flying Ball – Official Launch
We first came across the ‘Unmanned Flying Ball from Japan” earlier this year in June. Now the Japanese Ministry of Defence Research Department has made an official launch at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo last week. Continue reading
Aurora Flight Sciences Assigned Patent for UAS Retrieval System
Aurora Flight Sciences has been assigned a patent for a “system and method for the retrieval of a smaller unmanned aerial vehicle by a larger unmanned aerial vehicle.” Continue reading
DARPA UAVForge Competition – Contestant Number 6
Circino Flight Systems submitted a 3-year old video of its ‘Sentry’ Olecopter which tries to satisfy a number of problems with UAV’s – combine VTOL performance with high speed in forward flight. Continue reading
HART Connects with US National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency
There is growing interest in a US aviation force that could carry out precision surveillance and strike missions thousands of miles away. That capability would be particularly useful in the Pacific Rim where US bases are sited far from several hot spots. Continue reading