The roar of F-16 fighter jets streaking across the sky over Des Moines on training missions will soon be silenced. Continue reading
MIT Develops Autonomous UAS Flight
“Computers do things more precisely and faster than humans,” says Mary “Missy” Cummings, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “But we need humans to deal with uncertainty. It’s this combination that interests me.” Continue reading
US Navy Issues Urgent Order to Equip MQ-8 Fire Scout with Maritime Surveillance Radar
U.S. Navy officials have issued an urgent order to equip the service’s MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with the Telephonics Corp. RDR-1700 maritime-surveillance radar system. Continue reading
Japan Plans to Deploy Global Hawk to East China Sea
JAPAN is considering introducing American unmanned aircraft to boost surveillance of its territorial waters near islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a bitter dispute with Beijing, Kyodo News says. Continue reading
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Gets $28M US Air Force Reaper Support Contract
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. is being awarded a $28,282,516 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for logistics support for the US Air Force MQ-1/MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aerial Systems programme. Continue reading
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Bring Down Mission-Critical GPS Networks with $2,500 Device
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Scientists have devised a series of novel and inexpensive attacks that can severely disrupt mission-critical global positioning systems relied on by the military and a variety of industrial players, including airlines, mining companies, and operators of hydroelectric plants and other critical infrastructure. Continue reading
UVS International Announces Its RPAS Events for 2013
Within the framework of its Global Access Initiative, UVS International is (co)organizing 5 remotely piloted aircraft systems events in 2013, namely: Continue reading
ENAC Invites Comments on Draft RPAS Regulation
On 24 December 2012, ENAC, the Italian civil aviation authority, published a draft of its RPAS regulation on its web site, and invited the RPAS community and other interested aviation stakeholders to supply their comments on this document. Continue reading