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Multispectral sensors designers at the Raytheon Co. Network Centric Systems segment in McKinney, Texas, will move ahead with developing a new sensor for unmanned aircraft able to see objects on the ground not visible to the human eye, such as hidden roadside bombs or illicit opium crops by detecting their spectral signatures. Continue reading
The RPAS CivOps conference will take place at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium on 4 & 5 December 2012. Continue reading
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
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
Aerial shots taken by a UAS platform of the New Jersey Shore before and after Hurricane Sandy. Continue reading
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 Communications has announced that it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for its VideoScout family of systems. Continue reading
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