Numerica Corp. was awarded a two-year, $600,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to develop collision prediction capabilities for unmanned aircraft systems operating in the National Airspace System.
Category Archives: Research
Boeing & BAE Systems Develop Laser Weapon UAS Defence for US Navy
Boeing announced that its Directed Energy Systems (DES) division has signed a teaming agreement with BAE Systems to develop the Mk 38 Mod 2 Tactical Laser System for defence of U.S. Navy ships.
Model-based Design Using COTS Tools for UAS Development
Unmanned aircraft systems are becoming more and more complex in order to fulfill a number of potentially conflicting performance and robustness requirements. However, the use traditional development methods that continue to rely on legacy designs and domain specific tools that perform subsystem-level optimization make it difficult, if not impossible to perform system-level design optimization of these complex systems.
IARPA Announces Proposers’ Day Conference for Great Horned Owl Programme
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) will host a Proposers’ Day Conference for the Great Horned Owl (GHO) Programme on August 15, 2011, in anticipation of the release of a new solicitation in support of the programme.
Inside the Micro Air Vehicles Unit of the US Air Force Research Laboratory
We came across these Reuters photos taken inside the Micro Air Vehicles Unit of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
US Air Force Seeks ‘The Right Stuff’ for a Predator Pilot
The US Air Force frequently carries out research into the psychological aspects of being a pilot. The results of a survey conducted between September 2009 and April 2011 into what it takes to become a good UAS pilot were presented as a report in May 2011, and have recently been cleared for publication. Here is the ABSTRACT:
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s UAS Initiative Gets FAA Authorization to Fly in National Airspace
The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Initiative at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has received a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Certification Authorization to fly RS-16 unmanned aircraft into National Air Space.
NASA Awards Research Contract to Numerica for Next-Generation Collision Avoidance Technology
Numerica Corporation, a research and development company working in the area of information science, was awarded a two-year, $600,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop collision prediction capabilities for Unmanned Aircraft Systems operating in the National Airspace System.