Professional Drone / UAS Business Activity

Business

Botlink and Packet Digital Partner to Create Solar Energy UAS

Two Fargo-based companies, Botlink and Packet Digital, announced that they are joining forces to create a drone platform which will not only allow pilots to track their drone flights in real-time, but to fly their drones using solar energy for up to four hours – 4x as long as today’s

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Venture Capitalists Prowl Drone Market

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Business

Corporate Korea Loves Drones

Corp orations in South Korea froma wide variety of industry sectors are turning their eyes toward drone technology, which is expected to create a great number of new business opportunities down the road. South Korea’s 10th-largest conglomerate, Hanwha, is one of those firms aiming to make headway into the

Business

General Atomics Gets $121M US Army Contract for 19 Gray Eagles plus Satellite Communications Terminals

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, was awarded a $121,350,000 modification (P00028) to contract W58RGZ-13-C-0109 for 19 Gray Eagle unmanned aerial vehicles and 19 satellite communications air data terminals. Work will be performed in Poway, California, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2018. Fiscal 2015

Business

General Atomics to Provide Radar Sensors for Reaper

Unmanned aerial system (UAS) experts at The General Atomics Aeronautical Systems segment in Poway, Calif., will provide the U.S. Air Force with advanced radar UAS sensor payloads under terms of a $23.1 million contract. Officials of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,

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NASA Grant for KU Student's Drone Radar System

Kansas University student Lei Shi, an electrical engineering doctoral candidate, is developing tiny on-board radar systems to help keep small commercial drones from crashing into things — one of the biggest safety concerns keeping such unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, mostly grounded by FAA regulations. His invention just got a big

Business

Sagem Pitches Patroller UAV To French Army

Sagem has listed the 25 companies that are enrolled in the “Patroller Cluster” and helping it to develop this tactical UAV. Frederic Mazzanti, executive vice president of the company’s Optronics and Defence division, said that nearly 90 percent of the Patroller is made in France and claimed that Sagem’

Business

Textron Awaits Key UAV Decisions

Textron Systems Unmanned Systems is showing off its range of UAVs at the Paris Air Show as the company awaits decisions on two major contracts expected later this year. In November, the French DGA is expected to down-select a contractor to meet its tactical unmanned air system (TUAS) requirement, although

Events

Tekever Launches Net Ray UAV at Paris Airshow

Tekever has introduced the AR3 Net Ray unmanned air vehicle, which is currently undergoing testing with a number of Portuguese government agencies. Since October the surveillance UAV has been trialled with the Portuguese National Republican Guard, that has used it to monitor a park in north Portugal to survey for

Military

Sagem and DCI Offer Manned/Unmanned Surveillance

The remotely piloted aircraft system demonstrated in 2014 its ability to fly in civilian airspace when it completed an 11-day flight test campaign.

Business

Cobham and GA-ASI Team for UAV Support in UK and Australia

Cobham Aviation Services (Cobham) and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) have signed a Teaming Agreement at the Paris Airshow to create an affiliation covering whole life support arrangements for GA-ASI products in the UK and Australia.The teaming arrangement focuses on the provision of support for the Predator B

Business

New Predator B Variant on Track to be Certified for Flight in European Airspace

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced that it reached a significant milestone in its Independent Research and Development (IRAD) program to design, develop, and produce a variant of the Predator B RPA to be certified for flight according to the NATO Airworthiness Standard for unmanned aircraft. Certifiable Predator B