Loitering Munitions - One Way Effector (OWE)
Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, oversaw a performance test of various drones organized by the Drone Institute of the Academy of Defence Sciences on August 24. He was
C-UAS
.L3Harris’ Agile Development Group has been iteratively developing a robotic based, highly mobile, short range air defense capability that meets today’s mission needs and is inherently designed to adapt to tomorrow’s threats quickly and economically. The prototype system participated in this year's Project Convergence Capstone 4
Business
On July 31, 2024, the first EagleEye multi-mode radar came off the production line of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). The new radar is a high-performance system that delivers high-resolution, photographic-quality imagery that can be captured through clouds, rain, dust, smoke, and fog at multiple times the range of
Testing
.Skylark Labs, a noted company in AI and autonomous systems, has been selected by the Office of Innovation and Modernization to participate in the Technology Innovation Discovery Event (TIDE) 2024. This event will take place on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. At TIDE
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The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has signed a contract for the purchase of two SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), scheduled for delivery in 2025. This follows JCG’s ongoing Company-Owned, Contractor-Operated agreement with GA-ASI for operating SeaGuardian, which began in April 2022. “Since
Law Enforcement
The largest police force in the nation is planning to use a fleet of autonomous drones to combat an alarming surge in robberies and assaults in Central Park, the world's most iconic public green space. The New York Police Department has already flooded the sprawling park, one of
German prosecutors have opened an investigation into repeated drone flights over critical infrastructure in northern Germany on suspicion of espionage activity, a prosecutor said on Thursday. The Flensburg public prosecutor's office has initiated a preliminary investigation on suspicion of "agent activity for sabotage purposes in connection with
Business
Successfully flying a drone in heavy rains or on an extremely windy day is next to impossible. A University of Memphis researcher is looking to improve the odds for such unmanned aerial systems after securing a $9.2 million contract to design and construct a facility to develop and test
Events
A Czech company has unveiled an inflatable decoy of the F-16 fighter, notably wearing Ukrainian Air Force markings. The inflatable fighter, from a firm that is already known to be providing Kyiv with decoys of other items of military equipment, appears only a matter of weeks after it was confirmed
Regulations
Istari Digital has announced that a modification of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works X-56A is on track to become the world's first digitally-certified aircraft. Last year, the United States Air Force awarded Istari Digital a $19 million contract to pioneer this ambitious program, aptly named Flyer Øne in
Cyberhawk, a global provider of drone-based inspection and survey services and visual data management software, has announced that it has been granted a coveted nationwide Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) waiver by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This landmark authorization marks a significant milestone for Cyberhawk, paving the way
AI
.Shield AI, Inc., the technology company building AI pilots, completed a major milestone on the path towards its overarching goal of providing autonomy for the world by successfully demonstrating its first-ever multi-jet autonomy flights on two Kratos MQM-178 Firejets. The flight tests featured two autonomous agents piloted by Shield AI&