The US Navy has awarded over $48 million worth contract to Virginia-based Six3 Advanced Systems Inc. to support deployment of counter- unmanned aerial systems (UAS) engineering, the Department of defense announced. Continue reading
US Navy Orders Protonex Fuel Cell Systems for UAV Field Trails
Ballard Power Systems announced that the Company’s subsidiary, Protonex, has received purchase orders from the U.S. Navy for a total of 13 fuel cell propulsion systems for unmanned aerial vehicles. Deliveries of the fuel cell propulsion systems are expected to occur in 2018. Continue reading
Airbus to Test Zephyr S in Western Australia
Airbus has picked Wyndham airport, located southeast of Wyndham in the Kimberly region of Western Australia, as the location for testing its cutting edge high-altitude solar-powered drones. Continue reading
Real-Time Drone Surveillance System (DSS) for Violent Individuals Identification
For a long time, surveillance has been known as an effective deterrent of crime. this notion has become ever more prevalent in an age with more and more cameras, weather they’re in our pockets, or in the air. Police and other governmental agencies have begun employing drones to be their eyes, searching the horizon for crime. Continue reading
Singapore Trial of Shore to Ship Deliveries
Launching at Singapore port’s Marina South Pier in quarter three 2018, Wilhelmsen Ships Service and Airbus will be piloting the delivery of spare parts, documents, water test kits and 3D printed consumables via Airbus’ Skyways unmanned air system (UAS) to vessels at anchorage. Continue reading
AIRFENCE Approved for Procurement by DoD and Homeland Security
In the spring of 2017, the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) — via the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) — engaged in a one-year prototype contract with Sensofusion to develop a ground-based mobile counter-UAS solution stemming from Sensofusion’s pre-existing core product AIRFENCE. Continue reading
Shilat Optronics Introduces Thermal Payload for Drones
Shilat Optronics – an electro-optics company that offers several proprietary technologies for defense and homeland security applications – will launch two innovative night vision products at EUROSATORY 2018. Continue reading
ING Robotic Aviation to Fly Extensive BVLOS RPAS Missions in Support of Canadian Oil Sands Operations
ING Robotic Aviation Inc. has been selected to fly an extensive series of Beyond-Visual- Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) RPAS missions in support of Canadian Oil Sands operations. These missions will be undertaken within a safe flight regime approved and monitored by Transport Canada (TC) as part of the TC BVLOS Pilot Project in the summer of 2018. Continue reading