The Red River Valley Research Corridor is holding its 5th Annual Unmanned Aviation Systems Action Summit at the Alerus Center, Grand Forks, North Dakota, on June 2-3, 2011. It will focus on developing and strengthening the Nation’s burgeoning unmanned systems industry and advancing the call to develop responses to some of the pressing issues, challenges, and threats.
Azerbaijan to Produce 60 UAS by Year End
Azerbaijan Defence Industry Minister, Yavar Jamalov, announced at IDEF-2011 in Istanbul that the Defence Industry Ministry of Azerbaijan plans to produce 60 unmanned aircraft by the end of the year.
Dynamics Research Corporation $25M Support Contract for Predator/Reaper Programme
Dynamics Research Corporation announced that it has been awarded two delivery orders with a combined value of $24.5 million for a base year with an additional option year period of performance.
IDEF Opens in Istanbul
President Abdullah Gül and the TAI Anka
President Abdullah Gül officially opened the 10th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF’11) at İstanbul’s Tüyap Convention Center in Büyükçekmece on Tuesday.
Quadrotor Formation Flying at Penn University GRASP Lab
The University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, has been working on getting groups of the robots to fly together in formation. Just like with a formation of fighter jets, there’s a leader robot in each squad along with several follower robots. The followers have just two jobs: follow the leader, and preserve the shape of the formation.
Alenia Aeronautica Seeks Partner for NextGen MALE UAS
(c) Alenia Aeronautica
Alenia Aeronautica is looking for a partner to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system to rival the Franco-British venture announced earlier this year by BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation.
Aeroseeker Launches NextGen QuadRotor at Singapore Show
AeroSeeker launched its highly portable, four-rotor, unmanned aircraft with high quality video surveillance and aerial video streaming capabilities at the International Defence Fair in Singapore.
US Air Force $200M Jammer Pod Programme for Reaper
Four contractors will compete for a $200 million US Air Force programme to develop and produce an electronic attack (EA) pod that will be installed on unmanned aircraft systems and manned aircraft.