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The Federal Bureau of Prisons (Bureau), Office of Security Technology has created a Request for Information (RFI) to seek information related to a solution regarding protection from unmanned air vehicles. The goal of this RFI is to obtain detailed to collect information to identify and assess the landscape of technologies
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A breach-of-contract squabble has spiralled into broader allegations of misconduct against a drone manufacturer with millions of dollars worth of US military contracts. A drone retailer claims that Prioria Robotics bilked the Army by selling a substandard drone that could be outflown by many hobby drones, which are
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Lockheed Martin was awarded a $4.6 million contract from the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) for the continued development of a maritime canister-launched small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS). "We are extending our sUAS capabilities to tactical maritime users with the Vector Hawk's innovative canister
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DJI, the leading manufacturer of consumer drones, is building a new research and development center in Palo Alto, Calif., that could hold 75 or more engineers, according to several job listings posted in recent weeks. The center, housed in a 12,000-sq.-ft. building located east of Stanford University
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Aeryon Labs, a provider of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for military, public safety and commercial operators worldwide, has announced a technology partnership with Microsoft to include Aeryon SkyRanger within the new Microsoft Advanced Patrol Platform (MAPP) vehicle. MAPP will connect its drivers to an unprecedented amount of helpful and
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The celebrity investors on Shark Tank have unanimously agreed to invest money into drone maker xCraft. Charles Manning and founder JD Claridge made a successful pitch on the popular ABC television show, raising money for a drone that can take off like a helicopter and move forward like an aircraft.
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Aeryon Labs Inc., a manufacturer of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) and mission control software, announced that it has closed a $60 million investment from Summit Partners. This investment will help the company realize its ambitious vision for the sUAS market, which sees widespread adoption across military, public safety and
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During the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition, Northrop Grumman Corporation and its supplier partners celebrated the first component parts manufactured in the Republic of Korea for the country's RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Global Hawk provides valuable wide-area intelligence gathering capabilities to military
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced that it has been awarded a full-rate production contract by the US Army for 19 Improved Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft to be delivered by September 2018. “We are very pleased that the Army has awarded us this production contract for IGE, which delivers a
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract from the United States Army totalling $18,485,495 to supply initial RQ-11B Raven unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), spare parts and contractor logistics services to seven allied nations through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme. The
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The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the unmanned air vehicle that it plans to acquire under its recently-announced Protector effort will be a derivative of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper that the Royal Air Force operates. While the specific configuration that it will acquire
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The US State Department has approved Spain’s request to purchase four General Atomics-built Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles and associated equipment from the U.S. under a $243 million foreign military sale. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday that in addition to the systems themselves, the sale would