General Atomics Gets $371M USAF Reaper Contract
General Atomics – Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $370,932,862 firm fixed-price, incentive firm contract for fiscal 2015 MQ-9 Reaper production.
Intel, AeroVironment and Esri – New Platinum Sponsors of Drone World Expo
Drone World Expo has announced that Intel Corporation, AeroVironment and Esri have all signed up as platinum sponsors of this defining event for the commercial applications of UAS technology which takes place at the San Jose Convention Center, Tuesday, November 15 – Wednesday, November 16, 2016. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Employees 2016 Quad Cup Innovation Challenge
Northrop Grumman conducted a mini-drone Olympic-type competition as a way to further foster innovation within the firm and advance small-drone ISR and attack technology. Continue reading
Predator B Detects and Tracks Ballistic Missile in Pacific Dragon Exercise
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), has announced that through a contract with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), it executed a missile tracking test as part of the Pacific Dragon (PD) exercise held June 26-28 off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in Kauai, Hawaii. Continue reading
Olaeris Demonstrates 21st Century Helicopter
Olaeris has performed a private flight demonstration of its AEVA unmanned aircraft system for a group of investors and aviation industry executives. Continue reading
NASA Licenses UAV Auto-Tracking Mobile Antenna Platform
NASA has designed an innovative antenna-mounting platform that meets the needs of the unmanned aircraft market by providing a low-cost, low-power mobile auto-tracking antenna. The patent-pending platform offers continuous rotation of nearly 60 pounds of antennas, transmitters, and receivers along with customized software to automatically track a target such as an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, which can be any size aircraft. Continue reading
DARPA Wants Ideas for Protecting Against sUAS
The rapid evolution of small unmanned air systems (sUAS) technologies is fuelling the exponential growth of the commercial drone sector, creating new asymmetric threats for warfighters. sUASs’ size and low cost enable novel concepts of employment that present challenges to current defense systems.