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senseFly has announced its new ultra-lightweight and powerful UAS for the surveying and mining industries: the eBee, a combination of cutting edge technology, aerodynamic expertise and innovative design. The company claims that theBee is the first professional-market UAS that is resistant to high winds yet remains inherently harmless and is
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Embraer has revealed plans to "strengthen" its relationship with a Brazilian start-up building UAS. São José dos Campos-based Santos LAB emerged three years ago to supply a mini-UAS called the Carcara to the Brazilian military, and rapidly forged partnerships with major airframers. In 2011, Boeing promised to transfer
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Scion UAS, LLC has won a government contract worth up to $3 million to supply unmanned helicopters for unspecified uses.The company must deliver one such helicopter to the Naval Research Laboratory within six months, another three months later, with an option for a third, according to Scion co-founder Jim
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The US Defense Department's latest annual industrial base assessment includes rosy predictions for developers of high-tech unmanned aircraft that have become essential elements of U.S. military operations. Although declines in manned tactical aircraft may be expected, development of unmanned aircraft systems is "a key area of
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Officials of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington are asking industry to participate in a fly-off evaluation of small unmanned aircraft systems and integrated UAS sensor payloads for potential use by local civil authorities maritime border and maritime security, law enforcement, search and rescue, fire, and
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Mav6 has announced that it has divested its airship business. The Vicksburg, Mississippi-based defence technology company leveraged this capability to execute work on the Blue Devil Block 2 system — a long endurance airship integrated with advanced sensor payloads built for the US Air Force. Mav6 Co-founder and Managing Director, Jay
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The Polish Ministry of National Defence has cancelled a contract concluded in 2010 with the Israeli company Aeronautics Defense Systems for the supply of Aerostar medium-range unmanned aircraft. The company has once again failed to meet deadlines, in spite of their postponement for two years. Aeronautics was to begin providing
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South Africa's Denel is developing a new unmanned aircraft for the African market called the Hungwe. "We're developing this for all the markets out there, obviously with the emphasis on the African market," a senior Denel official says. "It's used for
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Navmar Applied Sciences is being awarded a $41,463,854 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost reimbursable contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project under Topics N92-170 “Laser Detection and Ranging Identification Demonstration”, N94-178 “Air Deployable Expendable Multi-parameter Environmental Probe”, and AF083-006 “Low Cost Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Unmanned
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Aurora Flight Sciences recently signed an agreement with the Boston area Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council (MetroLEC) to establish a programme to evaluate Aurora's Skate Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) by their Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) operations. This programme will allow MetroLEC to evaluate the utility of SUAS
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The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $20 million contract to add beyond-line-of-sight command and control functions on one of its E-11A communications-relay aircraft, announced the company. BLOS C2 allows the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node-equipped jet to spread "wireless Internet over the battlefield," giving ground forces access to
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Europe is being tipped to spend nearly $14 billion over the next 10 years on research and development of unmanned aircraft systems and their procurement. About $8.7 billion of that amount will be spent on R&D efforts, while about $5 billion will be for procurement. However, despite