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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
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
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, 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 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
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
Insitu has been helping firefighters on wildfires in Oregon, providing information for fire suppression activities via its data collection, analysis and delivery capabilities. Continue reading
Under the pioneering Lagos Enterprise Geographic Information Systems, e-GIS, upgrade and Integrated Land Administration and Automation System Project, “Lagos eGIS Project”, Asseco Software Nigeria has sealed a deal with the Lagos State Government to procure Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, “UAVs”, to capture and update orthophotogrammetric data. Continue reading