The US Navy has awarded North Eastern Aeronautical Company, Inc. (Neany) a $19,998,314 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Persistent Surveillance Unmanned Aerial System (PSUAS).
US Army Gives Lockheed Martin $47M Procurement Contract
Lockheed Martin, Mission System & Sensors, Owego, N.Y., was awarded a $47,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for procurement of autonomous technologies for unmanned aerial systems to maximize performance requirements and capabilities with mature technologies.
Back Inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome with Kinect
This video was taken inside the Quadrotor Thunderdome in Zurich, aka the Flying Machine Arena at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, part of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich).
Lockheed Martin KMAX Begins Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) Tests
The Navy and Marine Corps plans to field a cargo unmanned aircraft system are moving forward as the first of two potential UAS helicopters landed at Pax River, July 1.
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Kansas University Meridian Monitors Ice Flow
Kansas University’s school of Aerospace Engineering (KUAE) has used MTM®45-1 prepreg from Advanced Composites Group (ACG) to build a fleet of Meridian UAS designed to monitor the flow of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Continue reading
L-3 Communications gets $28M ARGUS Data Link Contract from US Air Force
The US Air Force has awarded L-3 Communications Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah, a $27,936,509 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract in direct support of data link communications activities including the Automated Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance (ARGUS)-Imaging System.
International Institute for Strategic Studies Comments European UAS Programmes
France and Britain recently announced they would be postponing a decision on a joint development project for next-generation unmanned aerial vehicles for 12-18 months to consider their options. Douglas Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, discussed European UAS programmes with the editors of World Politics Review:
China Speeds Up UAS Development Programmes
No country has intensified its research in recent years faster than China – now every major manufacturer for the Chinese military has a research centre devoted to UAS. Much of this work remains secret, but it is clear that China is determined to catch up — by building equivalents to the leading U.S. combat and surveillance models, the Predator and the Global Hawk — and also it has a desire to sell this technology abroad.