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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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Insitu Pacific and Composites Technology Research Malaysia (CTRM) announced that it has signed a contract for Insitu Pacific to deliver its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to CTRM. The UAS will be operated by CTRM's subsidiary Unmanned Systems Technology (UST). Insitu Pacific, a wholly owned subsidiary of Insitu
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Israel Aerospace Industries' Panther tiltrotor unmanned aircraft system will be adapted for operation aboard navy ships. The Panther uses an innovative automatic flight control system that manages the transitions between the hovering take-off phase to forward flight and vice versa before landing. The UAS takes off and lands
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U.S. Navy persistent-surveillance experts are awarding a $28 million contract to Logos Technologies Inc. in Fairfax, Va., for three Kestrel surveillance and reconnaissance systems for deployment on aerostats and airships operating at altitudes between 1,000 and 5,000 feet off the ground. The Logos Kestrel day/night
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Crescent Unmanned Systems LLC in New Orleans has just launched the Bravo 300 Tactical UAS. The Bravo 300 small unmanned aircraft system is a heavy lift system designed for stability, endurance and operation in extreme conditions . Capable of being equipped with various payloads, including HD photo and video cameras, infra-