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The US Government is conducting market research for the Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) Product Office (SUAS PdO), Redstone Arsenal, Alabama to identify and determine potential sources to support the SUAS PdO and its customers for acquisition of systems and parts. The Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office is seeking
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. received a $141.8 million contract for services in support of U.S. Army Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft systems, the Pentagon announced on May 10. The award is structured as a cost plus incentive fee contract. The U.S. Army Contracting Command of Redstone Arsenal,
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US Navy engineers demonstrated the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities of a ship-based UAS for senior Coast Guard, Navy and Congressional stakeholders in an exercise on the Potomac River. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) personnel launched the ScanEagle UAS on simulated search and seizure missions, successfully detecting
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The U.S. Navy has placed an order for three additional Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scouts and one ground control station. The order is valued at $25.7 million. MQ-8B Fire Scout is an unmanned autonomous helicopter designed for U.S. Navy situational awareness and precision targeting. The unmanned aircraft
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India’s RUSTOM-1 made its 14th successful flight on Tuesday morning at Kolar with attainment of about 11500 feet AGL (above ground level) and speed of above 140 Kmph during 2 hrs 10 minutes of cruise. The aircraft was developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) a DRDO lab at Bangalore
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An Israel Defence Forces observation airship crashed on May 4, on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. The airship was performing a routine surveillance deployment in the Gaza sector when a civilian crop duster flying by hit its cable. As a consequence of the incident, the balloon crashed whereas
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Improvised explosive devices have changed the way the Marine Corps engages hostile forces. The need has risen for supplies to reach the most remote parts of Afghanistan quickly, reliably and safely. Late last year, the Corps began experimenting with the K-MAX unmanned helicopter, able to transport large amounts of cargo
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Arcturus T-20The US military can't buy enough unmanned aircraft systems to suit imagery-hungry combat commanders. Procurement programmes are harder than ever to start in these days of ever-tightening defence budgets. And using a 20thCentury defence acquisition system to buy 21st Century technologies often means getting too little too
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The US Air Force says it needs to scale back buying its UAS while it gets enough human beings in place to operate them and interpret the surveillance data they collect. Congress decided that the Air Forces might need more cash, just in case. The Pentagon asked Congress for only
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Most aircraft slated to go onto aircraft carriers have to go through an electronic magnetic interference test that bathes the design in about 200 volts per meter. But the test platform for the Navy’s unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (Uclass) aircraft programme, will have to endure 10 times
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A surface-to-air missile on top of a tower block in Waltham Forest, East London A senior UK Army officer has warned that unmanned aircraft carrying deadly poison could be used in a devastating terrorist attack during the Olympic Games. Lieutenant Colonel Brian Fahy delivered the grim warning at a meeting
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The US Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG)-Belvoir Division (ACC-APG-Belvoir) is conducting market research on behalf of the United States Army, Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), Air Systems Division (ASD) in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. The purpose of this Market Research is to