Business
Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems is being awarded a $29,515,929 firm-fixed-price contract modification. This is for the infrastructure portion of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) Block Load effort that provides for the necessary tasks that allow the contractor to manage the day-to-day
Events
This video of an Iranian Armed Forces Military Parade, featuring several unmanned aircraft and a Mobile Ground Control Station, just appeared on the Internet. Skip forward to about 3 minutes 3o to go straight to the unamanned aircraft, and turn the volume down to avoid the propaganda... Source: YouTube/armyreco
Propulsion
QinetiQ’s Zephyr team has been honoured by the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) for their world record breaking work on a High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft by winning both the awards for Emerging Technologies and Product Design at the prestigious IET Innovation Awards event held in
Propulsion
King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, said Arabia is to enter unmanned aircraft systems technology with the signing of an agreement with Japan’s Tokai University, Tokyo and the British Cranfield University.The agreement is to design and build UAS powered by solar energy. The signing ceremony took place at the
Business
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. is being awarded a $45,835,942 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification. This contract is for software maintenance tasks necessary for the contractor to maintain support software for air vehicles, ground support segments. Flight test covers the tasks necessary for the Global Hawk System Integrator
Research
According to a comprehensive global report on the UAS market by Global Industry Analysts, the global spending on Unmanned Aircraft and Systems is projected to reach US$ 5.34 billion by the year 2017. Growth will be primarily driven by factors such as increase in defense budgets, proliferation of numerous
Events
The Sense & Avoid (SAA) Science and Research Panel (SRP), chartered by the Unmanned Warfare office in the Office of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (AT&L) within the Office of the Secretary Of Defense, held the first of what will prove to be many Open Industry Days on October
Propulsion
Moller International, Inc. has awarded Space Science Corporation (SSC) a distributorship with exclusive rights in New Mexico following the completion of a market survey at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). "Space Sciences Corporation is a young aggressive firm and their approach to business holds many
Commercial
Government officials in the Indian State of Orissa are looking at high-tech radio monitoring devices like Unmanned Aircraft for catering to any short notice multi-linear operation in the fields of disaster management, heath services and homeland security. A meeting to this effect has been held recently under Chairmanship
Commercial
Next time you barricade yourself inside a parking garage with an AK-47, keep an eye out for the flying garbage can. It weighs about 18 pounds, can hover in midair, and is loaded with video cameras to send precise footage of your every move back to cops swarming on
Commercial
The Managing Director of the company that built the aircraft, Ehsan Rahmanian, said: “The aircraft enjoys a high potentiality and can carry out various military and non-military missions including patrolling, reconnaissance and monitoring woods and pastures.” “It is named “Shir Dal”. It is taken from a mythological creature in
VTOL
TiaLinx, Inc. announced the release of its software-defined multi-function radar sensor implemented in its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) platform. The Phoenix50-A VTOL sUAS system is capable of performing various functions such as motion detection within a compound, scanning the ground for unexploded ordnance (UXO), and