AeroVironment Inc filed a patent application for “A hydrogen fueled power-plant including an internal combustion engine that drives a motor-generator, and has a two-stage turbocharger, for an aircraft.”
Category Archives: Research
Oregon State University and Economic Development Agency Partner on UAS Technologies For Natural Resource Management.
Economic Development for Central Oregon and Oregon State University announced that they have signed an agreement to develop technologies related to unmanned aerial systems that will benefit OSU’s academic and research programmes, particularly natural resource management.
Is ‘Open Architecture’ the Future of Cost-Saving Defence Procurement?
Curt Schacker is the CCO of RTI, and in a recent interview with Defence IQ’s Richard de Silva about what he means when he refers to ‘interoperable open architecture’ and how it differs from past open architecture efforts.
Numerica Research Centre Awarded 2-year $600,000 NASA Contract
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.
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.