Business
Mr. John Purvis has been named President and CEO of AME Unmanned Air Systems (formerly AeroMech Engineering, Inc.). He succeeds Mr. Jay McConville, who will now serve as AME UAS’s Chairman of the Board and as an Executive Vice President at ChandlerMay. These changes were announced by Mr. Jesse
Three unmanned helicopters were shipped to Japan on a special Nippon Airways flight from France yesterday to monitor the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The €40,000 order was received by Hélipse’s American partner, Rotomotion, from General Electric, mandated by the Japanese. Company founder Laurent Grenier
Life goes on for TAO Transa t mospheric Operations GmbH in Stuttgart after its recent split with Sanswire. The company retains all of its rights in its stratospheric airship project SkyDragon and is now looking for new investment partners. SkyDragon will be capable of unmanned and autonomous flight for an
SightLine Applications LLC has announced a new product, the SLA-2000, which adds multi-channel capability to their product line of real-time, on-board video stabilization, object tracking, and image enhancement systems for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications. The multi-channel aspect enables new features, such as Electro-
Two local police departments in South Carolina recently unveiled the latest additions to their arsenal of law enforcement tools -- remote controlled mini helicopters. The helicopters were custom built by officers from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department and the Columbia Police Department, and will be used by both. Deputy Marcus
A novel test aircraft of the Munich Technical University (Technische Universitaet Muenchen) successfully completed its maiden flight on Wednesday at the airfield of the MFC Red Baron near Heimstetten. The micro aircraft, christened "IMPULLS" (Innovative Modular Payload UAV – TUM LLS), will facilitate testing aviation sensors and systems. It
The Applied Technology Institute (ATI) in Washington D.C. has announced its new one-day short course on Unmanned Aircraft Systems for beginners. The course teaches participants to recognize the different classes and types of UAS, how to optimize their specific applications, how to evaluate and compare UAS capabilities, and
Business
Aversano Aircraft in Florida has been quietly developing an aircraft which it claims is “a whole new design, theory and all new technology for UAS performance, manoeuvrability and payload.” The Defender airframe is tried and tested and the company is now looking for partners who need a base for a
Training
This summer, 20 Master and PhD students can get a unique experience and learn about unmanned aerial systems. NAROM, the Norwegian Centre for Space-related Education, together with Andøya Rocket Range, Narvik University College, University of Tromsø, University of Bergen and NORUT host the first summer school about unmanned aerial
Military
Northrop Grumman recently submitted its final proposal for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) core capability - a trans-Atlantic cooperation that will meet the security challenges of the 21st century. The NATO AGS includes an air segment consisting of six Block 40 Global Hawks that will be missionized to meet
Research
Jackson State University computer engineering professor Kamal Ali has been awarded a research grant worth $517,062 from the U.S. Department of Defense for a three-year-project to build a simulator to test MAV autopilots. The project title is “A Hardware-In-the-Loop-Simulation (HILS) System for
Testing
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will award a sole source cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to New Mexico State University Physical Sciences Laboratory (NMSU/PSL). This contract is for the acquisition of facilities, materials and support for flight testing for the Vulture programme flight demonstrator (FD) air vehicle.