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General Atomics, Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has been awarded a $279,144,933 fixed-price-incentive-firm and firm-fixed-price contract (0077) for MQ-9 Reaper production under Basic Ordering Agreement FA8620-10-G-3038.The contractor will provide 24 MQ-9 Block 5 Reaper aircraft and associated spare parts, support equipment and spares. Work will be performed at Poway,
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DJI Technology Co., plans to double sales in 2015 as it pushes for clearer regulations on unmanned flights. DJI is working with the U.S. and China governments on rules for commercial and recreational uses of its aircraft, Chief Executive Officer Frank Wang said in an interview last week. The
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The Belarusian R&D centre for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies of the Physics Technology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus expects to sell drones for some $4 million in 2015, Head of the R&D centre Yury Yatsyna said at the press conference “Innovation
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Two and a half years after leaving the post of CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., Itzhak Nissan, in an exclusive interview with "Globes", unveils Meteor Aerospace, the new defence company he founded together with Hezi Bezalel. The company deals in unmanned systems, and mainly aims at markets
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Mountain Secure Systems (MSS), a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries (PSI) and supplier of rugged electronic solutions, announced that it has recently shipped an order of removable, ruggedized solid state drives (SSDs) to a leading defence contractor, which will be integrated into a pod system for the MQ-9 Reaper. The
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Bureau Veritas and Skeye BV have signed a preferred supplier ship related to inspection work executed with UAV’s.
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The United States plans to sell 4 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles and other related equipment worth almost $340 million dollars to the Netherlands, US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a press release. The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Netherlands for
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The Obama administration rolled out a proposed Fiscal Year 2016 defence budget of $585.3 billion on February 2. Nearly $50 billion would be spent on aircraft and related systems during the fiscal year, which begins in October. Among the four services, the Air Force had the largest plus-up with
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Northrop Grumman Corporation will begin production of four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for the Republic of Korea's Air Force. The systems will provide valuable wide-area intelligence gathering capabilities to military commanders so they can make more informed decisions. Under a contract awarded Dec. 16, the
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Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) experts at BAE Systems are developing an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) sensor payload able to look for submerged enemy submarines by detecting small variations in the Earth's magnetic field. Officials of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., announced an $8.
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China has supplied at least one UAV, the Pterodactyl (Yilong-1), which was developed by China's Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, to Uzbekistan.This was part of a series of contracts for the provision of defence equipment to these Central Asian countries were signed back in 2013. The purpose of
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The sale of the Predator to the UAE has been tentatively approved by senior US lawmakers, in what would be the first sale of the aircraft outside of Nato. After nearly two years of deliberations, the US state department began talks with the senate and house foreign affairs committees in