General Dynamics teamed up with the US Army Armament Research and Development Engineering Center (ARDEC) to successfully demonstrate GPS-guided munitions for use on small unmanned air systems. Continue reading
Upgrades to Shadow in Evaluation Stage
The soldiers of Company A, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico are flying UAS with new upgrades as part of Network Integration Evaluation 13.1 to better assist service members in the fight. Continue reading
Hurricane Sandy: Interactive Before and After Images by UAS
Aerial shots taken by a UAS platform of the New Jersey Shore before and after Hurricane Sandy. Continue reading
Chris Anderson Leaves Wired to Focus on UAS Start-Up
Chris Anderson, the longtime editor of the geek tech bible Wired, has announced he’s leaving the job to focus on 3D Robotics, a San Diego-based start-up that’s trying to take remote-controlled airplanes and copters to a whole new level. Continue reading
L-3 Gets $85M US Navy Contract for VideoScout Systems
L-3 Communications has announced that it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for its VideoScout family of systems. Continue reading
The First Image of Earth Taken From Space
On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Wins $36.5M Contract to Train Unmanned Aircraft Operators
The US Department of Defense has awarded more than $36.5 million to Northrop Grumman training soldiers in the operation of unmanned aircraft at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista. Continue reading
Insitu Donates Historic ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft to The Museum of Flight
Insitu Inc. announced that it donated a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, which participated in a widely publicized rescue mission in April 2009, to The Museum of Flight in Seattle. Continue reading