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Insitu Inc. announced that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system surpassed 500,000 combat flight hours and more than 56,000 combat sorties to deliver actionable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) with 99 percent mission readiness.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded the company a contract for development of the complete Demonstrator Laser Weapon System (DLWS) for the agency’s High Energy Liquid Laser Defense System (HELLADS) programme.
The board of directors of Northrop Grumman Corporation elected Wes Bush as its chairman, effective immediately. Bush will serve as chairman, chief executive officer and president. Bush succeeds Lewis W. Coleman, who has served as non-executive chairman since January 2010.
Australia’s Sentient has announced that the Canadian Forces are currently conducting an operational evaluation of its Kestrel automated target detection software on board the CP-140 Aurora, Canada’s primary Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft.
Textron Inc. reported second quarter 2011 Revenues of $2.7 billion, up $19 million from the second quarter of 2010. Segment profit was $196 million, up $35 million from the year-ago quarter.
Northrop Grumman has delayed plans to fly a test version of Germany’s Euro Hawk to the EADS Manching site, near Munich, attributing its decision to issues over agreeing a flight plan with the US Federal Aviation Administration.
A Pakistani Navy unmanned aircraft crashed near an oil refinery, after hitting a bird in the country’s largest city of Karachi on Tuesday.
We came across these Reuters photos taken inside the Micro Air Vehicles Unit of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.