Business
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. is being awarded a $45,835,942 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification. This contract is for software maintenance tasks necessary for the contractor to maintain support software for air vehicles, ground support segments. Flight test covers the tasks necessary for the Global Hawk System Integrator (prime contractor) to
Research
AeroVironment’s Hummingbird - a surveillance prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - made the front cover of The Invention issue of TIME, which appears on November 28 and which features 50 new inventions. New York photographer Jamie Chung spent two and a half weeks shooting the Hummingbird—
Business
North Eastern Aeronautical Company Inc. (NEANY), headquartered in Hollywood, MD, was recently ranked third in the nation for 8(a) Prime Contractors by Washington Technology. NEANY is a minority-owned 8(a) certified research, development, test and evaluation firm currently producing innovative unmanned air and ground solutions providing battlespace awareness, force
Business
Insitu Inc. has announced a new alliance with Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments Company (ADASI) that allows for support and sustainment of Insitu’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) products and services in the Middle East. “As we collaborate on approaches to grow into the Middle
Military
Marlborough Communications Limited and sub-contractor Prox Dynamics have been awarded the contract to supply commercial off-the-shelf Nano-UAS systems and spares to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. The value of the initial contract is 2.5 million GBP (US $4M), with potential through life costs and follow-on options of up
Business
Germany will decide next year which unmanned aircraft to purchase for its Bundeswehr military forces, a senior defence source told Reuters. This would suggest that it is refusing to bow to pressure from EADS for a quick decision to order its Talarion. The source said that the Bundeswehr would continue
Business
The growing market for unmanned aircraft has created 150 job openings at Northrop Grumman's San Diego area plants, where the company develops the Global Hawk, Fire Scout and the X-47B."These are new jobs, not replacement positions," said Warren Comer, a Northrop spokesman. "And most
Military
The Swedish Armed Forces is planning to acquire a new mini UAV system. The intention is to complement, and thereafter replace, the SkyLark system which has been operational in the Swedish Armed Forces since 2007. The purpose is to support the Swedish Armed Forces with short-range reconnaissance information. The FMV
Research
Aurora Flight Sciences has been assigned a patent for a "system and method for the retrieval of a smaller unmanned aerial vehicle by a larger unmanned aerial vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method
Business
Aerodyne, Inc., an aeronautical engineering and technical consulting company, has been awarded a contract potentially worth more than $105 million to provide technical and engineering support for the US Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office. Under the Project Manager, Army UAS Technical Services contract, Aerodyne will be performing a full
Business
The 2011 Turkey Frost & Sullivan Product Leadership Award in Aerospace and Defence is presented to Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TAI) for the ANKA. This indigenously developed medium altitude long endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft has been designed by TAI to meet reconnaissance and surveillance requirements. "TAI's culture
Business
As anticipated, Northrop Grumman has signed MoUs with four South Korean companies to participate in the RQ-4 Global Hawk programme during the Seoul Air Show in South Korea. The MOU signings will enable the Northrop Grumman Korea Global Hawk team -- composed of Northrop Grumman, Dreaming and Challenging Company, FIRSTEC,