Testing
Aurora Flight Sciences announced that its Centaur optionally-piloted aircraft has successfully completed its first fully automatic landings. The tests were conducted at Warrenton, Virginia. Aurora designed Centaur to fly as a normal manned aircraft, as an unmanned aircraft or in a “hybrid manned/unmanned” mode in which control may
Military
The Heron is set to continue service with the ADF in Afghanistan, after Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare announced a contract extension until the end of 2012. Currently operated by the RAAF’s 5 Flight with personnel from the RAAF and Australian Army, the Kandahar based Heron provides aerial
Research
Numerica Corporation, a research and development company working in the area of information science, was awarded a two-year, $600,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop collision prediction capabilities for Unmanned Aircraft Systems operating in the National Airspace System.
Testing
Four American companies will demonstrate concepts for an unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft to the U.S. Navy. Study contracts worth about $500,000 each were awarded late June to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI, which offers the Sea Avenger version of the jet-powered
Control Stations
AAR Corp. a provider of aircraft parts and maintenance, announced that it has won a strategic five-year contract for providing lightweight, multi-purpose shelters (LMS). The value of the contract will be up to $14 million. The durable LMS shelters will be used by the army to house and
Military
The Pentagon has asked the U.S. Congress for the OK to shift more than $920 million for numerous intelligence efforts, including many military UAS programmes, according to Defense Department budget documents. The funding transfer request comes in addition to the more than $5 billion in transfers DoD has asked
Testing
World Surveillance Group Inc. has announced that it has completed additional testing of its Argus One UAV in Easton, Maryland in preparation for the airship’s flight testing and demonstration at the U.S. Army’s proving ground facility in Yuma, Arizona. The recent series of Argus One flight testing
Research
The SEED is an autonomous, mobile camera balloon created to take photos and video of you while you’re on vacation. This design project was created by Moonhwan Lee, Nakamura Shohei & YoungWook Jung. It would also keep track of the weather and other data so that you can remember
Military
China may have used an unmanned aircraft called the Silver Eagle in a recent naval exercise over the South China Sea. According to a website sponsored by the People’s Liberation Army, tp.chinmil.com.cn, the twin-tailed design performed a simulated combat mission following its launch from the
Commercial
The U.S. Geological Survey has announced details of one of the first projects using UAS to survey wildlife. It is partnering with the University of Idaho to use UAS technology to gather data on the landscape habitat of pygmy rabbits. The UAS approaches will help develop map data for
Events
The Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich) is organizing a conference with the focus on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics (UAV-g) on September 14-16, 2011 at ETH Zurich, Campus Science City (Hoenggerberg), Switzerland. There will be two days of conference and one day of
Training
Kansas State University has just released this informational video about K-State's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Programme at its Salina Campus. The mission of the K-State at Salina Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office (UASPO) is to facilitate and promote the safe incorporation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the