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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. and Tesat-Spacecom announced that they have signed a teaming agreement to combine their expertise in the field of RPA laser communication (lasercom) to demonstrate a high-rate RPA-to-spacecraft lasercom link. “New sensors and increased RPA usage will create an increased bandwidth demand
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., is being awarded a $296,956,705 cost plus fixed price, firm fixed price and time and materials contract for contractor logistics support which includes programme management, urgent repairs and services, configuration management, technical manual and software maintenance. The location of the performance is Poway,
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German company 3W Modellmotoren, which produces the motors for small airplanes, stated that dealers resold some of its technologies to Belarus for the use in unmanned aircraft. As Managing Director Pert Wintrich stated, it is quite possible that Belarus received the motors from one of the dealers. “You never know
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U.S. Air Force researchers are looking to image-processing expert MotionDSP Inc. in Burlingame, California, to use graphics processing unit (GPU) technology to enhance persistent-surveillance imagery gathered from sensors aboard unmanned aircraft. Officials of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, awarded a
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Swiss UAV announced that it has delivered three new VTOL UA systems based on the all new „Mjolnir“ to end customers in Germany - DLR (ARTIS), ESG (UMAT) and the German ‚Bundeswehr’ (MUSECO). The new VTOL UAS distinguishes itself by its modularity.The ARTIS has been fitted out with a laser
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced that it received $16,472,298 in additional funding to perform on Aug. 10, 2012 from the United States Army under a contract action with a total projected value of $65,889,191. The company announced the initial $15.8 million funding of that contract action on
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AeroVironment Inc. posted a first-quarter loss of $1.4 million, or 6 cents a share, brought on by decreased sales of its unmanned aircraft. Analysts on average had forecast a loss of 3 cents a share.In the same period last year the company had a profit of $326,
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As many as 66 countries would be eligible to buy American UAS under new Defense Department guidelines but Congress and the State Department, which have a final say, have not yet opened the spigots for exports, a senior Pentagon official said on Wednesday. The 66 countries were listed in a
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In-flight evaluations will take place in September and October on the Emmen airbase for the acquisition of new unmanned aircraft reconnaissance system (ADS 15). Out of the eleven systems made by nine companies that were originally in the running, those submitted by Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems Ltd.
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U.S. Air Force researchers are choosing embedded computing experts at Space Computer Corp. in Los Angeles to upgrade sensor processing in the Air Force Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System Hyperspectral (ACES Hy) side-mounted persistent-surveillance sensor for the MQ-1 Predator. Officials of the Air Force Research Laboratory
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Israeli manufacturer Innocon has unveiled its candidate for a requirement to supply a new class of unmanned aircraft system to the Indian Air Force and Navy. Named Spider, Innocon's design weighs 2.5kg (5.5lb) without its sensor payload and battery installed, and will provide an operating endurance
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Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (ASTI), a developer of state-of-the-art, flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, announced that it is collaborating with Silent Falcon UAS Technologies and Bye Aerospace to provide its lightweight, flexible copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) photovoltaics to power the Silent Falcon unmanned aircraft system (UAS)