Military
Officials of the US Department of Defense (DoD) plan to spend at least $5.78 billion to buy and develop unmanned vehicles and unmanned vehicle payloads next year, according to data in the Pentagon's budget documents released this week. This figure is down 13.14 percent from the
Data Links & Communications
DARPA is looking to develop an advanced communications backbone to support dismounted warfighters in austere locations. Providing high-bandwidth communications for troops in remote forward operating locations is not only critical but also challenging because a reliable infrastructure optimized for remote geographic areas does not exist. When you introduce additional
Military
UVision Air Ltd. has unveiled the Blade Arrow Precision Attack Munition (PAM) five years after it was first demonstrated. The PAM concept brings new offensive capabilities for precision strike of high-value and time- sensitive targets, in complex terrain and urban background. UVision’s Blade Arrow provides long range, highly
Testing
When HMCS Charlottetown deployed to the Mediterranean Sea for Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR, she took with her a potent surveillance and reconnaissance capability that is new to Canadian warships: the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a small, low-cost, long-endurance UAS built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing. Among her many tasks
Military
An unmanned aircraft is likely to be pressed into service in the Visakha agency and the border districts of the Indian state to help in intelligence gathering on a real-time basis. The UAS base will be set up at Madurapuddi near Rajahmundry. A senior official of Special Intelligence Branch
VTOL
Fire Scout Over Frigate McInerney - Photo:MC2 Alan Gragg, US NavyReservists are at the controls of the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for the aircraft’s deployment to Western Africa. As part of an effort to determine manning for the unmanned aircraft, reserve officers will fly Fire Scout and
Military
RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 40 Photo: Northrop Grumman The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed on Friday to acquire its first fleet of unarmed unmanned aircraft under a long-sought deal that defence officials said would help fill a gap in alliance surveillance capabilities exposed by last year's
Military
MQM-107D Streaker The North Korean military is developing unmanned "suicide" attack aircraft to target South Korean troops on the northwestern islands, a South Korean Army source claimed Sunday. The South Korean military in turn plans to procure all-weather unmanned tactical dirigibles capable of carrying out reconnaissance
Military
Elbit Systems has expanded its portfolio of payloads with the recent launch of a Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 UAS hyper-spectral payload with new intelligence capabilities. Based on Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop’s proprietary research, the unique, innovative hyper-spectral imaging technology enables simultaneous imaging of the region
Military
Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, at an Air Force Association event in Washington on February 2, previewed more details of the USAF portion of the fiscal 2013 budget request that comes out February 13. “We will retire the RQ-4 Global Hawk block 30 fleet, which is about 18 aircraft”
Military
The Marine Corps’ RQ-7 Shadow can’t handle the intense summer heat in Afghanistan, forcing units to rely instead on smaller aircraft for most daytime missions, according to an internal review of air operations in the war zone. Published in October by the Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned,
Business
Insitu, Inc. is being awarded a $41,090,719 ceiling priced modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) to exercise an option for operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle unmanned aerial systems. These services will provide electro-optical/infra red and