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AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the receipt of a fixed-price contract award valued at $5,962,494 from NSPA on August 20, 2018.The contract award encompasses the procurement of Raven® unmanned aircraft systems equipped with Mantis i23 sensors and pocket Remote Video Terminals (p/RVT) for the Portuguese Army, with
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At the Land Forces Exhibition in Adelaide, EPE, Thales and Department 13 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) following successful integration of the MESMER Counter Drone solution into the Bushmaster. The MOU outlines the intent for this solution to provide an interim cyber capability for the vehicle platform. Drones have
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Delair, a supplier of commercial drone solutions, announced that it has recently closed its expansion round with an investment from Intel Capital. For the past year, Delair and Intel have been collaborating on the Intel Insight Platform, a cloud-based digital asset management solution that leverages Delair’s extensive suite of
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Rolls-Royce engines have been selected by Boeing to power the US Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aircraft, which will provide unmanned, carrier-based air-to-air refuelling. The US Navy has awarded the MQ-25A engineering and manufacturing contract to Boeing to provide four aircraft. The MQ-25 is designed to provide the US Navy
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Oxford Direct Services (ODS), the service delivery and commercial arm of Oxford City Council in the UK ,has announced that it is to start providing drone-based services to include roof and building surveying, land mapping, aerial photography and filming. As far as is known, this is the first time a
Commercial
PrecisionHawk Inc., a provider of drone technology for the enterprise, has announced a partnership with EagleView, a provider of aerial imagery and data analytics for government, insurance and commercial sectors. Through this partnership with PrecisionHawk, EagleView will collect at-scale insurance claims imagery via drones by leveraging PrecisionHawk’s global network
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SkyX, the Canadian long-range unmanned aerial monitoring and data collection company, has announced that the company has closed $9.5 million USD in Series B funding from the Almond Tree/SkyX Limited Partnership (LP), led by Almond Tree Enterprise Inc. This second round of financing brings SkyX’s total funding
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REIN's DroneInsurance.com, a digital drone insurance portal, is announcing its collaboration with AirMap, a leading drone airspace management platform. The relationship allows drone operators to seamlessly access DroneInsurance.com's offerings within AirMap for Drones, AirMap's iOS and Android applications, providing a streamlined option
Drone Racing
The Drone Racing League (DRL), which is one of the foremost organizations trying to turn drone racing into the next NASCAR, announced a new competition for teams to develop AI pilots for its aircraft. With backing from aerospace firm Lockheed Martin, DRL wants to recruit developers from around the world,
Commercial
REIN's DroneInsurance.com, a digital drone insurance portal, has announced its collaboration with AeroVironment to offer insurance coverage options for the Quantix commercial drone platform. Quantix, together with the AeroVironment Decision Support System™ (AV DSS), provides an integrated drone and data analytics ecosystem designed specifically for precision agriculture.
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U.S. Air Force electro-optical surveillance experts needed next-generation multispectral targeting sensor systems for the MQ-9 Reaper attack unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and other reconnaissance aircraft. They found their solution from the Raytheon Co. Officials of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, announced
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Sentera, a Minneapolis-based digital agriculture technology provider, announces that it has raised an additional $14 million in Series A funding. A premier group of food, biosciences, and agriculture investment firms, Chicago-based S2G Ventures, New York-based Continental Grain Company, and Washington, DC-based Middleland Capital, lead Sentera’s new funding group. Sentera’