General Atomics Aeronautical System Inc., was awarded an $11,096,457 modification (P00120) to contract W58RGZ-13-C-0110 for sub-engineering service memorandums in support of the Gray Eagle aircraft system. Continue reading
Convair 990A Coronado – World’s Fastest Subsonic Airliner
Before Concorde defined what it meant to fly fast, there was another airliner that tried to push the speed of air travel. With outside the box engineering, the Convair 990A cruised faster than any airliner before it. The Convair 990A is still the fastest non-supersonic commercial transport to have ever been produced. Continue reading
Insitu Gets $54M Blackjack Order for US Marines
Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is awarded a $53,965,378 firm-fixed-price contract to procure four full-rate production, Lot II RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems and eight attrition air vehicles; seven for the Marine Corps and one for the government of Poland. Continue reading
Colombia Tests Drones to Destroy Coca Plants
With drug crops booming, Colombia’s police are busily testing whether drones carrying defoliants can efficiently kill the leaf used to make cocaine and win the support of Trump administration officials concerned about this country’s growing capacity to supply drugs to American consumers. Continue reading
FCC Certifies Echodyne EchoFlight Radar
Echodyne, the manufacturer of high-performance radars for securing critical infrastructure and guiding autonomous machines, announced that it has received FCC certification for its EchoFlight radar. Continue reading
Systel to Showcase Next-Generation Computing for Counter-UAS Applications
Systel, Inc., a supplier of rugged computing systems, will brief government officials and industry on the threats posed by unmanned aerial systems and the technical challenges currently facing countering those threats at the Counter-UAS Conference August 22-24 in Washington, D.C.
General Atomics Gets $134M MDA Contract to Develop New MQ-9 Sensor
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, San Diego, California, is being awarded a competitive cost-plus-award fee contract with a total value of $133,969,081. Continue reading
BVoLS Fights Launch at Grand Sky
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson
Grand Sky, the first and only fully operational commercial unmanned aerial systems (UAS)-focused research and development park in the U.S., announced beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight operations for large UAS have begun at the park. Continue reading