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QinetiQ’s Zephyr team has been honoured by the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) for their world record breaking work on a High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft by winning both the awards for Emerging Technologies and Product Design at the prestigious IET Innovation Awards event held in London on Wednesday 9th November. Continue reading
King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, said Arabia is to enter unmanned aircraft systems technology with the signing of an agreement with Japan’s Tokai University, Tokyo and the British Cranfield University. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. is being awarded a $45,835,942 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification. Continue reading
According to a comprehensive global report on the UAS market by Global Industry Analysts, the global spending on Unmanned Aircraft and Systems is projected to reach US$ 5.34 billion by the year 2017. Continue reading
The Sense & Avoid (SAA) Science and Research Panel (SRP), chartered by the Unmanned Warfare office in the Office of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L) within the Office of the Secretary Of Defense, held the first of what will prove to be many Open Industry Days on October 26-27, 2011 at the MIT/LL facilities located in Burlington, MA. Continue reading
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Moller International, Inc. has awarded Space Science Corporation (SSC) a distributorship with exclusive rights in New Mexico following the completion of a market survey at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). Continue reading
Government officials in the Indian State of Orissa are looking at high-tech radio monitoring devices like Unmanned Aircraft for catering to any short notice multi-linear operation in the fields of disaster management, heath services and homeland security. Continue reading
Honeywell T-Hawk
Next time you barricade yourself inside a parking garage with an AK-47, keep an eye out for the flying garbage can.