Business
The U.S Army Contracting Command-Redstone Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium (AMTC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Branch awarded ten Air Launched Effects (ALE) Projects totaling $29.75 million in support of the Program Executive Office, Aviation’s Unmanned Aircraft System Project Office and Army Future Command’s Future Vertical Lift
Business
Privately held drone maker General Atomics of San Diego, California, is laying off approximately 630 employees. “General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. can confirm a reduction in force involving 6% of its workforce,” a spokesperson wrote in an email to Defense News late Wednesday. “This reduction was made to balance resources
Business
PrecisionHawk has been sued for nine breaches of contract and for unfair and deceptive trade practices. The lawsuit was filed earlier this month in Wake County, North Carolina Superior Court by the law firm of Thomas K. Lindgren, on behalf of the plaintiffs, JP Business Group and Terravative. An overview
News
The Chasing F1 Fish Finder Drone is a hi-tech digital full HD fish wireless finder drone for all types of fishing. F1 can be mounted bait boat, sonar or other mounts, supporting cruise between fishing spots, live broadcast, etc.. The camera detector can dive 28 meters and the battery can
News
As part of a plan to build a strategic bomber for deep penetration and nuclear bombing runs during the Cold War, North American Aviation created a stunningly futuristic prototype for its time: the XB-70 Valkyrie. Designed for the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command in the 1950s, the Valkyrie
Business
Insitu Pacific signed a teaming agreement with Nova Systems as part of its Australian-industry-led proposal to supply tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to the Australian Army under LAND 129 Phase 3. The addition of Nova Systems to the Insitu Pacific team supports a low-risk solution and ensures a rapid, fully
Business
Work to develop a world-class drone port in Montrose, Scotland, has taken a step forward with the start of a residents consultation. The Mercury Drone Port project aims to build a Centre of Excellence for drone technologies. The project will encompass vessel anchorages and extend out to windfarm developments currently
Testing
At 8 am on August 21, a large drone took off from Ningxia and arrived at the destination airport in Inner Mongolia nearly an hour later. This marks that SF Group's large-scale UAV has achieved a complete success for its first cargo flight based on business scenarios. This
Testing
Dynetics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, successfully tested a second X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV), as well as the Gremlins airborne recovery system, last month at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The series of tests focused on risk reduction, as
VTOL
With support from Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Near Earth Autonomy and Kaman Aerospace have partnered to develop an intelligent autonomy system for the K-MAX helicopter, a large-scale transport aircraft capable of lifting a payload of 6,000 pounds. The capability developed will be broadly applicable to large aircraft that
Research
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) researchers have successfully invented an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or a drone made of natural fibres, pineapple leaves, that has electrical resistance. The drone, named Putra Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or Putra UAV, is the first of such innovation to use natural fibres or biocomposites from
Commercial
The Federal Aviation Administration has launched a pilot program to translate into Spanish select web content for users of Unmanned Aircraft Systems . The program is expected to reach the nearly 25.6 million people living in the United States with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and will focus on Spanish, the