A company that manufactures unmanned aircraft is hovering over the Oroville Municipal Airport. If the city of Oroville, California, economic development team is successful, AirCover Integrated Solutions will land at the airport and make miniature unmanned aircraft.
White Eagle Aerospace Launches New Unmanned Aircraft Systems Course
Aerospace training specialist, White Eagle Aerospace based in Oro Valley, near Tucson, Arizona, has just added a UAS course to its programme of short training courses which cover a wide range of highly useful technical subjects. Continue reading
Obama Wants Global Hawks for South Korea
RQ-4 Block 30 Global Hawk - Photo: Northrop Grumman
The Obama administration has begun consulting Congress on plans to sell Global Hawk surveillance planes to South Korea, which came close to all-out war with North Korea last year.
US Army Awards AeroVironment $5M Contract for Switchblade Agile Munition Systems and Services
AeroVironment, Inc. announced that it received a contract on June 29 from the U.S. Army Close Combat Weapons Systems (CCWS), Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (PEO MS). The $4,907,840 contract for the Switchblade agile munition includes engineering services and operational systems for deployment with the U.S. Army.
DARPA Shrike Programme
The goal of the Shrike programme is to demonstrate the feasibility and practicality of man-packable perch-and-stare micro air vehicles to provide real-time persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to small unit commanders.
Northrop Grumman Gets $10M US Navy Contract for MQ-8B Fire Scout Logistic Support Services
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is being awarded a $10,474,708 cost plus fixed fee contract for logistics in support of the Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) MQ-8B Fire Scout system. Continue reading
New Opportunities for UAS in the Government Market
An interesting article in Government Technology magazine identified 5 Emerging Technologies that could soon be introduced to the Government Market – one of these is unmanned aircraft…
Announcing 13th UAS TAAC Conference in New Mexico
Thirteen years ago, New Mexico State University held its first UAS TAAC (Technical Analysis and Applications Center) conference, primarily focused on the civil use of UAS in the United States. The conference was one of a very few UAS conferences held in the United States at the time.