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The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awarded a six-year $24.1 million contract to Defense Engineering Corp. to develop advanced sensing equipment to prevent mid-air collision between aircraft. The research is one of numerous efforts to develop so-called “sense and avoid” sensor
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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the extraordinary projects -- a robotic hummingbird, a prosthetic arm controlled by thought, and, well,
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The U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded CSC an Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) contract to deliver streaming Video as a Service. This is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple award contract (MAC) with three prime awardees. The contract has a 60-month period of performance,
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Bell Helicopter and Textron Systems operating unit AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, both Textron Inc. companies have teamed to develop a Manned Unmanned Operations (MUMO) Capability Development Laboratory in Huntsville, AL. to enable a software and hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) development test capability using operationally relevant systems specific to manned
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[gallery orderby="rand"] A new company, Fat Head Solutions, LLC with bases in Wichita Kansas and two other major operating locations, will provide low cost, high value, and complete subsystem solutions for small unmanned aircraft systems. Capitalizing on an emerging $17B/year market, Fat Head Solutions intends to
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The Board of Directors of Dassault, chaired by Mr. Charles EDELSTENNE, last week closed the financial statements for the year 2011. These consolidated financial statements were certified by the Statutory Auditors who expressed an unqualified opinion. Order intake 36 FALCON compared to - 9 in 2010 MIRAGE 2000 upgrade contract in
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The Spanish Government approved last Friday, March 16th a plan to restructure the public sector, which affected 49 companies, including INSA (Ingeniería y Servicios Aerospaciales S.A.). The company that belongs to the Ministry of Defence, was founded in 1992. According to that plan, INSA’s activities, employees and assets
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EADS company Cassidian confirms that it has halted work on the Talarion unmanned aircraft system programme, after failing to secure financial backing from potential future buyers. "Cassidian said several times during the last few months that we will only continue to invest in the Talarion programme if we would
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Insitu announced yesterday that it has signed a contract to deliver its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the Netherlands to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) for the Ministry of Defense (MOD). The Netherlands will use ScanEagle with the MOD both domestically and abroad. “We’re excited to be
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When Elbit Systems announced a $50 million sale “to supply Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to a governmental office of a country in the Americas” on Jan. 3,there was speculation that Colombia was the buyer. The contract called for “systems such as the Universal Ground Control Stations (UGCS)
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Russian military aircraft manufacturer Irkut has signed a contract with Vietnam to build a small unmanned aircraft for the Southeast Asian country, Izvestia daily reported last week. The $10 million deal, with Vietnam Aerospace Association (VASA), was signed last week, Yury Malov, head of the Irkut Engineering, Irkut's
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The US Air Force has not formally cancelled the Block 30 version of the RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, a top Northrop Grumman executive says. "We haven't been cancelled today," says Jim Palmer, the company's Chief Financial Officer, speaking at J.P.