GA-ASI Breaks Ground on New Hangar in El Mirage

L-R: GA-ASI Vice President of Facilities Dennis Garegnani, GA-ASI President Dave Alexander, San Bernardino County First District Supervisor Robert A. Lovingood, and GA-ASI Vice President of Flight Operations Gary Bender

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) held a ground breaking ceremony today for a new hangar being built in El Mirage, Calif. The new facility in the high desert of southern California will be close to 150,000 square feet and be used to house and test GA-ASI’s latest Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) variant, the MQ-9B SkyGuardian. Continue reading →

First FAA COA with BVLoS Provision for Public Safety Drone Program

Cape, a cloud platform for drone telepresence and data management, has announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the first-ever Certificate of Authorization (COA) with a provision for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) for a public safety organization. Cape worked closely with the FAA, and in partnership with the Chula Vista Police Department and Skyfire Consulting, to finalize the COA, which will open the doors for future drone integration across industries. Continue reading →

Inside Zipline’s New Rwandan Distribution Centre

The New Times was given exclusive access to the recently established Kayonza-based distribution centre of Zipline, which is already serving five hospitals in Eastern Province, supplying vital blood by unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones. This is the second such facility, after the one in Muhanga, to be set up by the firm in Rwanda. Continue reading →

South Korea-Based Air Defense Battery Integrates Counter-UAS into Core Competencies

Col. Richard Wright prepares takes aim at an unmanned aerial system remotely controlled by as Command Sgt. Maj. Wilfredo Suarez, August 20, 2018, at Combined Task Force Defender

Amid the looming threat of surveillance by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), 8th Army recently validated the reception, staging, onward movement, and integration of Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) at Camp Carroll, Republic of Korea. In order to support 8th Army and combat the UAS threat, Echo Battery, 6-52 Air and Missile Defense Battalion (E/6-52 AMD BN) established the first garrison Counter-UAS (C-UAS) defense design in the Korean Theater of Operations (KTO).  Continue reading →

NUAIR Deploys ANRA Technologies’ UTM System

The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR), and Griffiss International Airport in Rome, New York, have successfully implemented the UAS traffic management (UTM) platform from ANRA Technologies into the New York State UAS test site. This advances the test site’s capabilities by enhancing multiple, simultaneous beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations that involve both manned and unmanned vehicles sharing the same airspace. Continue reading →

RPAS 2019 – Annual European Civil RPAS Regulation Implementation & U-Space Integration Forum

RPA S 2019 is an international conference focusing on civil RPAS operations. In the context of the upcoming European RPAS regulation and its implementation, and in anticipation of the required integration of U-Space & ATM, it will address current & future drone operations (commercial & noncommercial), U-Space capability demonstrations, UTM/U-Space airspace integration matters, standard operational scenarios, operational experience (commercial & non-commercial), operator qualification, pilot training & qualification, test range safety rules, data protection & privacy. Continue reading →