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Darpa convened a “cyber colloquium” at a northern Virginia hotel on Monday for what it called a “frank discussion” about the persistent vulnerabilities within the Defense Department’s data networks. The Pentagon can’t defend those networks on its own, the agency admitted.Because it’s the blue-sky research agency
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The German Aerospace Center (DLR), winners of the International Micro Air Vehicle 2011 Outdoor Competition in September, just posted this video of the event.The "Team DLR" was a joint effort to participate in an international micro aerial vehicle competition. It comprised DLR researchers of the Institute of
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The Army Aviation Association of America, Inc. has announced that the AAAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Professional Forum will take place on December 14‐16, 2011, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA.This event will bring together all aspects of the community -- Operators, R&D, Acquisition and
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The Navy-Industry International Dialogue (NIID) provides a Navy-Industry-Attaché-Foreign Procurement Group forum to address issues involving security cooperation and sea service concepts and programmes that help drive future capabilities for international maritime partnerships. This conference will focus on Unmanned Aerial Systems management and capabilities. The Navy is unique among the US
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This the entry from icarusLabs, a team of 10 MIT engineers with specialities in aerospace, control systems and artificial intelligence. Called Stingray, it is a hybrid aircraft with VTOL cpabilities. It has a weight of 9.9 lbs (4.5 kg), a wingspan of 72 inches (1.83 m), an
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The Federal Aviation Administration is competitively establishing a new Center of Excellence for General Aviation Research in 2012. The FAA will begin the competitive process by hosting a Public Meeting on November 17-18, 2011 in the Atlantic City, NJ area. The FAA issued a Preliminary Notice last week, announcing the
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Circino Flight Systems submitted a 3-year old video of its ‘Sentry’ Olecopter which tries to satisfy a number of problems with UAV's - combine VTOL performance with high speed in forward flight.A scaled down version (7 feet) of the airframe has been made, has been ground tested
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Nothing very original about team Dhaksha's Hexarotor entry from MIT ANNA University in India, though it does have the merit of being stable. DARPA's UAVForge Competition has moved from the "idea" stage to the "concept" stage of Phase 1, with the official
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'The Future of Unmanned Vehicles & Systems-Aerospace' International Conference will discuss technological challenges, flight solutions and space exploration related to Unmanned Aircraft and Unmanned Vehicles. It is being held on October 27, 201, as part of the 'Aerospace & Defense Meetings', the international aerospace business convention
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The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio was host this week to the intelligence industry’s annual trade conference known as the GEOINT 2011 Symposium, shorthand for “Geospatial Intelligence.” This is a conference for those at the forefront the of high-tech marvels now used to fight wars, from
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Last in the current the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Pogo 2100UAV. The Pogo 2100 is a flying pogo stick that can be configured with explosives
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Continuing the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Quadrocopter Microdrone. The Microdrone is a kamikaze drone equipped with miniguns, an infrared laser beam, and Xbox Kinect-style cameras