News
Wal-Mart Stores Inc says it was six to nine months from beginning to use drones to check warehouse inventories in the United States, taking a step closer to using the technology to compete better with rivals. In October 2015, the world's largest retailer applied to U.S. regulators
Business
Sentient Vision Systems has announced the signing of an exclusive global distribution agreement with Insitu for the ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) software for unmanned systems within the tactical UAS weight class. Insitu will incorporate the ViDAR payload into its fleet of unmanned systems, beginning with its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft.
News
Europe's nEUROn unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator was presented in flight on June 4th. at an Air Meeting at Istres organized by the French Air Force. It is the first time in world aeronautical history that a stealth aircraft controlled from the ground has flown in public. The
Military
DARPA’s Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program seeks to help the U.S. military’s unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) conduct dynamic, long-distance engagements of highly mobile ground and maritime targets in denied or contested electromagnetic airspace, all while reducing required communication bandwidth and cognitive burden on human supervisors.
News
O'QUALIA, an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research and manufacturing company based in Singapore has launched the Captor UAS. The first commercially available fully 3D printed drone, the Captor UAS is designed to be completely modular to adapt and grow with the changing demands and requirements of each customer
News
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) announced that it will integrate RecceLite, a versatile imagery reconnaissance pod, onto an Italian Air Force (ItAF) Predator B/MQ-9. RecceLite is manufactured by Rafael, and is currently operational on manned Italian military aircraft. “Integrating this imagery enhancement capability onto Predator B is
C-UAS
The MITRE Corporation has named the eight finalists who will compete in its Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Challenge live flight competition in August. The live flight tests will determine the winners of a $100,000 prize package. The finalists are: * DroneTracker system from DeDrone, Inc., Kassel, Germany, and
News
Know Before You Fly has announced that more than 500,000 unique users have visited its website since the launch of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) education campaign in December 2014. An estimated 700,000 UAS were to be sold in the United States in 2015, according to the Consumer
C-UAS
The world's first fully integrated detect-track-disrupt-defeat Anti-UAV Defence System (AUDS) - developed by a trio of British companies including Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems, and integrated/supported in North America by Liteye Systems Inc. - has been selected by the United States Federal Aviation
Law Enforcement
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has announced the successful operational testing of a Detect and Avoid (DAA) system including GA-ASI’s Due Regard Radar (DRR) aboard a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Guardian Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), a maritime variant of GA-ASI’s Predator B RPA.
Events
MBDA Deutschland showcased a new laser-based system for countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the ILA Airshow in Berlin on 1 June. The 'laser effector' is a 360-degree defensive solution that can be integrated on both land and sea platforms using standard interfaces. Although billed primarily as a
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI),has announced the longest endurance flight of the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Big Wing aircraft, a next-generation derivative of the combat-proven Predator B RPA. “This long-endurance flight demonstrates Predator B Big Wing’s game-changing potential for providing life-saving persistent ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance, and