Rockwell Collins has delivered its Secure Real Time Video (SRTV) solution to the U.S. Army to support its Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) operations. The solution allows real-time video from an unmanned aircraft to stream directly to the cockpit of a warfighter flying a military helicopter. The open architecture approach to cockpit avionics systems allows the solution to be quickly installed on other helicopter platforms across the military services. Continue reading
Two 1930’s ‘Art Deco’ Spartan Executive Aircraft
Two 1936 Spartan 7W Executive aircraft are shown here as they display at the 2014 Little Gransden Air and Car Show, held at Little Gransden, England. Continue reading
VM-aware Storage Improves US Army Unmanned Aircraft Training
Tintri Inc., a producer of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualization and cloud environments, today announced that the U.S. Army Joint Systems Integration Lab (JSIL) is increasing user satisfaction and improving performance by using Tintri’s VM-aware storage to manage all virtualized workloads in its unmanned aircraft training systems division. Continue reading
US Army Wants More Gray Eagle Weapon Options
The US Army is interested in new weapons options besides the Lockheed Martin AGM-114 Hellfire missile for its General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1C, and the service has asked industry to offer smaller, cheaper and more specialised alternatives as it considers a future requirement. Continue reading
IMSAR Develops Collision-Avoidance Radar for sUAS
IMSAR LLC is developing a family of extremely small collision-avoidance radar systems targeted for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) and is on track to perform airborne demonstrations of its first prototype systems by the end of 2015. Continue reading
Drone World Expo – Exclusive Board Member Interviews – John “JC” Coffey
To find out what inspires their interest in UAS and attracts the Advisory Board Members to support Drone World Expo, we scheduled a series of exclusive interviews. Our ninth interviewee is John “JC” Coffey Executive Director, Unmanned Systems at Cherokee Nation Technology Portfolio.
In 24 years in the Navy he accumulated 4,500 flight hours in every imaginable plane and helicopter earning an impressive list of medals and honours along the way. He retired from the United States Navy in February 2011. and joined TriVector Service, Inc. as the Vice President of the Unmanned Systems Division, in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program Office. Continue reading
NASA Offers Patents to Start-ups
Advanced Communications System Aboard Predator B
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced the successful flight of a company-owned Predator B integrated with a certified Rohde & Schwarz R&S MR6000A air traffic control radio. The flight lasted 48 minutes, launching from the company’s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale, California.




