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ACP Composites, Inc., a manufacturer of high quality, lightweight composite panels, has just announced the introduction of their new 3 Ply Sandwich Panels. These new 3 layer Sandwich Panels offer increased strength properties without losing the light weight features that sandwich panels offer. Continue reading
On Friday 10 August 2012, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of the United Kingdom produced the fifth edition of CAP722, their guidance document relative to RPAS operations in UK airspace. Continue reading
Scion UAS has introduced a new line of VTOL UAS, starting with the SA-100 “Mink” and the SA-200 “Weasel”. Continue reading
US intelligence agencies were just as obsessed with UAS spying 40 years ago as they are nowadays — only then, it was pipe-smoking entomologists and watchmakers who were in charge of building prototypes. Continue reading
FreeWave Technologies has announced the Spartan Series of wireless radios for the government and defence markets, incorporating advanced implementation of FIPS 140-2 encryption technology for secure long-range communications. Continue reading
To prepare for natural calamities, such as earthquakes, the 163rd Reconnaissance Wing and local emergency officials partnered to plan and execute Grizzly Field Exercise 2012, or GFX 12. Continue reading
Hood Technology is equipping the Flexrotor, the unusual long-range VTOL aircraft from Aerovel, with a HoodTech stabilized imaging system. Continue reading
Instead of a human analyst slogging through (maybe) 10 three-page documents in an hour, Modus Operandi has developed its military intelligence “Googlizing” system, which has been “trained” via machine learning and enabled by a semantic analysis engine to provide the military intelligence community a way to quickly conduct military intelligence searches – as simply as one would do an ordinary Google search on a home computer. Continue reading