Business
South Africa's Denel is developing a new unmanned aircraft for the African market called the Hungwe. "We're developing this for all the markets out there, obviously with the emphasis on the African market," a senior Denel official says. "It's used for
Commercial
Unmanned aircraft should be used to police Britain's skies, a senior police officer said yesterday. Speaking ahead of the launch of the new National Police Air Service (NPAS), Chief Constable Alex Marshall said it would be a cheaper, and more efficient system than manned aircraft. The use of
Testing
French Civil Aviation Authority, the DGAC, awarded Delair-Tech the first authorisation ever issued to a UAS company in France, for a civil UAS to fly over 100 km in French airspace. Delair-Tech is based in Toulouse and specialised in the design and manufacturing of long endurance mini-UAS.
Business
Navmar Applied Sciences is being awarded a $41,463,854 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost reimbursable contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project under Topics N92-170 “Laser Detection and Ranging Identification Demonstration”, N94-178 “Air Deployable Expendable Multi-parameter Environmental Probe”, and
Commercial
Sinclair Community College has recently purchased “The Micro,” a small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) from UTC Aerospace Systems. This addition compliments Sinclair’s growing fleet of Unmanned Aircraft. The fleet consists of one vertical take-off UAS that can be controlled via smartphone app, and two “Spears” that are launched
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Aurora Flight Sciences recently signed an agreement with the Boston area Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council (MetroLEC) to establish a programme to evaluate Aurora's Skate Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) by their Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) operations. This programme will allow MetroLEC to evaluate the utility of SUAS
National Associations
The tenth meeting of the ICAO UAS Study Group took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 24 to 28 September 2012. This meeting, which was expertly hosted by ANAC (Brazilian civil aviation authority) and DECEA (Brazilian military aviation authority), brought together representatives from civil aviation authorities from Australia, Austria,
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The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $20 million contract to add beyond-line-of-sight command and control functions on one of its E-11A communications-relay aircraft, announced the company. BLOS C2 allows the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node-equipped jet to spread "wireless Internet over the battlefield,
CANSO, the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, is pleased to announce that Jeff Poole will assume the role of Director General as from the 1st. of January 2013. CANSO shows its gratitude to Samantha Sharif for the good work she has done as Interim Director General. In his present role
Commercial
One of the many high-tech gadgets being marketed this week at the International Association of Police Chiefs Convention in San Diego are small unmanned aircraft, that can fit in a police cruiser’s trunk. Operated from the ground by a trained deputy sheriff or police officer, the $50,000
At a presentation at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in San Diego about law enforcement’s use of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), Randy Willis, the air traffic control specialist who is spearheading the FAA’s oversight of the expanded use of these aircraft, laid out an
Insitu, Inc., is being awarded a $12,430,363 delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-12-G-0008) for the hardware required to modernize the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems and the systems ancillary equipment. This hardware includes replacement/upgraded aircrafts and components. Work will be performed