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
Kratos Wins $6.3M Contract to Supply Unmanned Aerial Target Systems to Korean Agency
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI) subsidiary has received a $6.3 million single award baseline contract from the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) for the supply of unmanned aerial targets and associated hardware. Continue reading
Airship Programmes – Not So Buoyant, Says US Government Accountability Office
ISIS (Concept: Lockheed Martin
(Bad) timing is everything in aerospace. At the height of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, airships looked to be the answer to demands for persistent, “staring-eye” surveillance. Continue reading
First JARUS Information and Dissemination Workshop
The first JARUS Information and Dissemination Workshop will take place on 6 December 2012 and will be kindly hosted by EUROCONTROL at their offices at 96 rue de la Fusée, Brussels, Belgium. Continue reading
LiquidPiston 40-BHP Rotary Engine Delivers 75% Thermal Efficiency
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half. Unfortunately, it’s notoriously inefficient, wasting anywhere from 30 to 99 percent of the energy it produces and spewing unburned fuel into the air. Continue reading
CloakBlade Stealth Octo-Rotor ‘Reaches Out’ to Enemy Ships
The US Navy Warfare Development Command’s Navy Center for Innovation recently demonstrated John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s Cloak Blade Micro-Copter. Continue reading
IAI Heron Demonstrates Maritime Credentials
In this video, the Heron demonstrates its maritime credentials. Continue reading