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Today, fighter pilots approach warfare like a questing medieval knight. They search for opponents with similar capabilities and defeat them by using technologically superior equipment or better application of individual tactics and techniques. For decades, leading air forces nurtured this dynamic by developing expensive, manned air superiority fighters. This will
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UPS has announced that it's partnering with two companies to test the use of drones to deliver blood transfusions and vaccines to remote parts of Rwanda in Africa. The company, through its UPS Foundation, has committed $800,000 toward the project with Zipline, a California robotics company; and
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Entrepreneur and U.S. Navy veteran Andy Von Stauffenberg, announced the launch of VStar Systems Inc. (VStar) after 12 years of experience in aerospace and systems engineering. A multi-dimensional systems integration company specializing in unmanned and robotic systems, VStar creates custom solutions for clients who have a unique set of
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Australia’s leading researchers of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) technology have been recognised by Australia’s CSIRO with exclusive backing to oversee the development of collision avoidance technology over the next three months. The Australian team behind perhaps the most innovative RPAS solutions for remote sensing, Hovermap, has been
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The US Air Force is pressing forward with a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper upgrade that would allow the widely fielded armed aircraft to takeoff and land automatically. This is a capability already inherent in the US Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle system, but the air branch has been
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A disaster site. A rainforest. A battlefield. These places have something in common: we have a need to understand what’s going on where established infrastructure can’t give us good data. Advances in computation, fabrication, and materials over the last half-century have resulted in small, cheap, and lightweight sensors
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It has long been recognised that drones also have potential in the offshore wind industry where, it is anticipated, they could provide significant cost and efficiency benefits. Work undertaken to date in the RepaKorr project suggests that these potential benefits extend to new, more cost-effective ways to detect corrosion. The
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The US Air Force, which is planning on developing unmanned aerial systems that can work autonomously and in teams, is looking for the next generation of machine-to-machine teaming software, which could enable UAS to operate in “swarms.” The service has issued a request for information looking for possible sources of
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Fire crews and a helicopter battle a blazing scrub fire at Pines Beach, North Canterbury in January. A drone operator who was shooting footage in the area on the same day has been prosecuted for flying without permission.The drone pilot who recorded footage close to the scene of the
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Radar Division has teamed with San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to integrate maritime mode inverse synthetic aperture radar (maritime-ISAR) imaging capability with GA-ASI’s Lynx Multi-Mode Radar deployed on its Unmanned Aerial Systems. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) communities around the
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Sweden's SmartPlanes has, after presentations held with VCU, Virginia Commonwealth University, and USACE, US Army Corps of Engineers, received orders for its fixed wing UAS, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Freya, equipped with multiple sensors. The sale of the UAS is handled through a GSA procurement contract, General Services Administration,
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency yesterday hosted DARPA Demo Day 2016 at the Pentagon, giving the Defense Department community an up-close look at the agency’s portfolio of innovative technologies and military systems. DARPA program managers and academic and private-sector project leaders demonstrated ongoing work on more than 60