Business
BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a detailed drones report that forecasts sales revenues for consumer, enterprise, and military drones. It also projects the growth of drone shipments for consumers and enterprises. The report details several of world’s major drone suppliers and examines trends
Business
UAV Vision (Australia), a leader in the ISR payload market, has announced the commencement of a strategic partnership with Ascent Vision (Bozeman, MT) that will provide regional distribution, an expedited support network and integration engineering assistance of UAV Vision products within the Americas. The strategic connection between UAV Vision’s
Events
Germany’s planned drone purchase is currently causing massive confusion where realistic military demands, unrealistic and sometimes naive expectations, lobbyists’ promises and constant pressure and squandered tax millions are all colliding. Alongside these time-consuming arguments between public utility providers and skeptical parties, a middle-market company based close to
Regulations
The CAA, NATS and ARPAS have joined forces with the UK Drone Show and Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) to create a Drone Safety Awareness Weekend to be hosted during the public weekend of the Farnborough International Airshow (Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th July 2016). Following an increasing number of incidents
Commercial
New Zealand startup Dotterel Technologies has won an innovation award for its noise-reducing drone technology at the 2016 NAB Show, the world’s largest annual convention to launch innovative products to key influencers in media, entertainment and technology. Auckland-based Dotterel was set up only nine months ago by
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has announced that it has received a $116.5 million award from the U.S. Army for an additional 24 RQ-7B V2 Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) upgrades. Deliveries of the 24 systems are expected to begin in 2018. The U.S. Department of
Propulsion
Ballard Power Systems has announced that the company's subsidiary, Protonex, has delivered prototype PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cell propulsion modules to Insitu for use in its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle. The ScanEagle platform has logged over 800,000 flight hours in military and civilian applications, making it
Business
5D Robotics, Inc. has announced its acquisition of industrial assets and intellectual property of Aerial MOB, LLC (Aerial MOB). This acquisition has led to the formation of the 5D Aerial division. The division provides precise 3D mapping, photogrammetry, thermal and multi-spectral imagery data, empowering focused analytical solutions to vertical
Regulations
The following is a question by the Hon Tony Tse and a written reply by the Secretary for Transport and Housing, Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung, in the Legislative Council on April 20: Question: With the rapid development of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), they have become increasingly versatile and are
Commercial
An innovative drone design to ignite prescribed fires in grasslands and forests got its first public test on Friday during a prescribed fire at the Homestead National Monument of America near Beatrice. Developed by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers Carrick Detweiler and Sebastian Elbaum and their team, the unmanned
Business
The new Protector unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be fielded by the United Kingdom has been revealed as the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) Certifiable Predator B (CPB), a Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract notification has shown. According to a justification for a sole-source award notification published
The US Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter will go through evaluation with the Marine Corps on an amphibious warfare ship, service officials said. Testifying April 20 before the Senate Armed Services Seapower subcommittee, Lt. Gen. Jon M. Davis, deputy commandant for Aviation, said the service now is