Agriculture
After extensive beta testing, DroneDeploy has announced two new tools available to customers that will help growers get powerful insights about plant count and stand establishment — just in time for corn and soy emergence across the U.S. Northwest. Stand Analysis Rather than evaluating stand establishment by painstaking on-the-ground sampling
C-UAS
The British team that created AUDS (Anti-UAV Defence System), the world's first production-ready and fully integrated counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) has extended its exclusive partnership in North Americawith Liteye Systems, Inc., in Centennial, Colorado. Liteye has been leading the AUDS sales drive in the USA and Canada since
Commercial
The Drone World Expo conference program will once again provide a road map for the application and deployment of drone solutions and key insights for participants into how to measure and maximize on the value drones can add to commercial businesses. Speakers include representatives from CNN, U.S. Department of
News
A South Florida jury convicted a California woman of conspiring to send a $50 million missile-firing drone and jet fighter engines to China via Broward County. According to prosecutors, Man, who runs a small electronics store, worked with a Chinese military agent to export the drone and several fighter jet
News
Leonardo’s recently revealed Osprey 30 lightweight active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been selected by the US Navy for integration on the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Fire Scout unmanned air vehicle. A contract was signed on 26 May, a Naval Air Systems Command notification says, that will see Northrop
Military
The South Korean military is testing Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles to patrol the Yellow Sea, a high-ranking military official said last week. They will be deployed in early August. The military will deploy drones on the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and is planning to eventually form a UAV squad. The
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has announced the successful flight tests of Predator C Avenger, equipped with a MS-177 Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensor manufactured by UTC Aerospace Systems. MS-177, an advanced sensor in UTC’s SYERS family of sensors, is a key component that supports GA-ASI’s
First Responders
As the 2016 wildfire season begins, federal agencies are again alerting industry and the public that the use of private drones (Unmanned Aircraft Systems or UAS) over or near active wildfire operations puts firefighters at risk and hampers their ability to protect lives, property and natural resources. To underscore the
Commercial
New research by a Johns Hopkins computer security team has raised concerns about how easily hackers could cause these robotic devices to ignore their human controllers and land or, more drastically, crash. Five security informatics graduate students and their professor discovered three different ways to send rogue commands from a
Events
A world-class conference program and several new educational and networking features will take place at the 2nd annual Drone World Expo, the defining event for the commercial applications of UAS technology, taking place at the San Jose Convention Center, Tuesday, November 15 - Wednesday, November 16, 2016. Following a very
Weapons Systems
The US military successfully targeted and destroyed a moving truck from a drone using the missile designed to replace the venerable Hellfire. The Joint Air To Ground Missile (JAGM) was fired May 25 at a truck traveling at 20 mph from a Grey Eagle drone at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
Commercial
A UK start-up is developing a high tech concept that it believes will one day enable it to plant one billion trees every year, contributing to efforts to tackle global deforestation and contributing towards greater overall sustainability. Deforestation continues to significantly outstrip our best conservation efforts. Illegal logging, land clearance