Business
Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based aerospace and defense geospatial technology company, and MartinUAV of Plano, Texas, a developer of UAV technologies, have announced that they have teamed to pursue integrated Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance solutions for the Royal Canadian Navy and CANSOFCOM. Combining the real-time Kongsberg UAV mission management system with
Business
Workswell, a designer and manufacturer of stationary, R&D and UAV thermal imaging cameras, solutions and systems, has announced that the company is renewing its partnership with Acecore Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from The Netherlands. European-made UAV packages “Acecore have been working with
Military
The US Air Force will release a request for proposals Feb. 25 for a ‘flying car’ that could eventually transport soldiers and supplies to the battlefield, says service acquisition head Will Roper. “Now is the perfect time to make Jetson’s cars real,” with this program, Agility Prime. It “has
Commercial
The joint research project Medifly, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Transportation and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), successfully demonstrated the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for acute transportation of medical samples in Hamburg. A total of six drone flights were conducted between the German Armed Forces Hospital in Wandsbek-Gartenstadt
Events
At UMEX 2020, Insitu-Boeing introduced Integrator Extended Range (Integrator ER), an enhanced version of the Integrator unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The Integrator ER is designed to perform a range of missions including maritime patrol, search-and-rescue (SAR), signal intelligence (SIGNIT), intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and target designation missions. The
C-UAS
The U.S. Navy recently installed the first Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN), a laser weapon system that allows a ship to counter unmanned aerial systems. The first system was installed on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105), during her recently completed Dry-Docking Selected Restricted Availability.
Events
General Atomics Aeronautical System (GA-ASI) presents its full range of unmanned aerial systems and solutions at UMEX 2020, the International Unmanned Defense Systems that takes place in Abu Dhabi, UAE (United Arab Emirates). The company is dedicated to providing long-endurance, mission-capable aircraft with the integrated sensor and data link systems
Testing
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) has announced successful flight testing of the NASC TEROS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Technology Demonstrator. The flight took place at the NASC Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight Operations and Training Center at the Griffiss International Airport in Rome, NY. The TEROS UAV flew for approximately 1.5
Events
ADASI has launched the first UAE-made high-performance "Garmousha" vertical take-off and landing drone, in an agreement with the General Headquarters of the UAE Armed Forces. H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, unveiled the new unmanned system at the
Military
The Department of the Air Force has submitted a $4.2 billion unfunded priorities list to Congress for fiscal 2021, which includes roughly $3.2 billion for the U.S. Air Force and $1 billion for the fledgling U.S. Space Force. The request, which is significantly higher than the
Regulations
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has appointed two new members to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Drone Advisory Committee (DAC). The new members are Christian Ramsey, President of uAvionix Corp., headquartered in Bigfork, MT, and Lee Moak, founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Moak Group in
Military
The Portuguese Navy is introducing a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system (UAS) operating capability to its Viana do Castelo-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), the service has told Jane’s . The four OPVs are operated by the navy’s Surface Ships Squadron in a wide range of roles