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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, was awarded a $9,250,320 modification (P00035) to contract W58RGZ-13-C-0109 to procure universal spares for mobile ground control stations, universal ground control stations, and universal satellite communications ground data terminals for the Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system. Work will be performed in
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Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully demonstrated mission management control features that create more unmanned aircraft system (UAS) versatility and efficiencies. During a series of high-altitude, long-endurance RQ-4 Global Hawk demonstrations, the UAS seamlessly responded to external requests to dynamically alter its route of flight and sensor functionality, thereby breaking the one-user
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TECOM Industries, Inc. a Smiths Interconnect business, announced the award of a firm fixed price contract from AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems for approximately $12.0M. The contract award is for the production of Expeditionary Ground Control Station (EGCS) portable command and control stations. The EGCS portable command and control stations
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Innocon integrates Imint’s unique low latency Vidhance video processing engine into its ground control station software. Vidhance gives access to very efficient real-time video processing allowing for automatic local contrast optimization, pan, zoom, rotation, mosaicing, stabilization increasing the likelihood of detecting time critical events. A built-in software tracker offloads
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Science Applications International Corporation announced it was awarded a prime contract by the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to provide Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Ground Control Station (GCS) and Combined Operations Center (Combined Ops Ctr) support. The single-award cost-plus fixed-fee (CPFF) contract has a one-year base period
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. was awarded a $10,964,799 fixed-price-incentive contract for the modification of an existing contract to procure universal ground data terminals. Work will be performed in Poway, with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2014. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The
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MTSU will research how military robots can work with unmanned aircraft through a “historic partnership” with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps, University President Sidney McPhee announced on Monday. McPhee signed a Joint Robotic System contract with U.S. Army Lt. Col. Nick Kioutas at the university’
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A new system collects and interprets neuro-physiological and performance measures to evaluate new warfighter technologies. The warfighter’s eyes are locked intently on the remotely piloted aircraft display, but perhaps too much so as the eye-tracking software indicates other screens are overlooked. Tasked with managing several remotely piloted aircraft, at
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Insitu Inc. announced that the Insitu Common Open-mission Management Command and Control (ICOMC2) system flew its Integrator Unmanned Aircraft System during a one-hour, 20-minute flight in eastern Oregon earlier this year. ICOMC2 is a core UAS control system that can be augmented with software plug-ins to incorporate evolving, mission-critical technology.
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Software engineers at the Raytheon Co. Intelligence and Information Systems segment in Garland, Texas, will continue a project to convert application code in the U.S. Navy Tactical Control System (TCS) for unmanned aircraft from the proprietary Solaris operating system to the open-systems Linux operating system under terms of a
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A small unmanned surveillance aircraft flies over an Austin stadium, diligently following a series of GPS waypoints that have been programmed into its flight computer. By all appearances, the mission is routine. Suddenly, it veers dramatically off course, careering eastward from its intended flight path. A few moments later, it
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The US military has dozens of different types of UAS and each one has its own unique controller. And each of those various controllers flies a single robot. There’s no system that controls multiple UAS at once. One Pentagon office thinks that’s an archaic way of doing business.