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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation two contract modifications totaling $156 million to continue operating and maintaining the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) system in support of overseas contingency missions. Northrop Grumman was awarded a $106 million contract modification to extend the deployment and operation of
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Kansas State University at Salina had just acquired two Penguin B unmanned aircraft, which are made by UAV Factory of Latvia, according to Josh Brungardt, Director of KSU-Salina's Unmanned Aircraft Systems programme. Brungardt discussed the Penguin B and others of the 12 unmanned aircraft maintained on the Salina
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Ducted-fan VTOL unmanned aircraft have a lot to offer - the ability to take off, land and fly in confined urban spaces being one. But quiet they are not, at least those that are big enough to carry a useful payload for a useful time.Now small firm D-Star Engineering
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) of San Diego, California is being awarded a $120,551,310 firm fixed price contract to provide MQ-9 Reaper spares and ground support equipment. The location of the performance is GA-ASI, San Diego, Calif. Work is to be completed by March 13, 2015. The contracting
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Rheinmetall Airborne Systems GmbH, a joint venture by Cassidian and Rheinmetall, will continue to support the German Armed Forces in Afghanistan by providing unmanned airborne reconnaissance services. The Federal Office for Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB) prolonged an existing order to the company to provide the German Armed Forces with
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AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., was awarded an $84,199,781 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for services in support of the Shadow 200 unmanned aircraft system. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Md., with an estimated completion date of June 15, 2013. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The
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SELEX Galileo has been awarded a contract worth €140 million by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation as part of NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) programme. The AGS programme is the flagship of NATO’s new defence strategy for security allies. Thirteen NATO countries are participating in the programme via
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About 20 miles east of Pittsburgh, the former heart of the nation's steel industry, a small company called ExOne is churning out a new generation of stainless steel boat propellers, oil pump parts and door knobs. But there are no clanging hammers, wheezing presses or even computer-controlled milling
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General Atomics expects the first sales of an unarmed export version of its Predator within months, seeing the Middle East and Latin America as particularly fertile markets. So far, almost all of the more than 500 aircraft sold by the firm have gone to the U.S. military, a handful
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Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced that it has extended and expanded its existing Australian Defence Force contract with the Australian Army to include the provision of ScanEagle UAS services for trials with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). ScanEagle will be installed on a number of RAN
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France’s imminent decisions on UAS procurement will have a disproportionate influence on future European unmanned aircraft programmes, and will likely determine whether Europe can catch up with Israel and the United States, whose industries currently dominate the sector. France’s leading role is coincidental, and is not justified by
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Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced that it has signed a contract to deliver ScanEagle UAS to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) for comprehensive operational evaluation by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). The UAS will be operated by the JGSDF to assist in disaster recovery and