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A new system collects and interprets neuro-physiological and performance measures to evaluate new warfighter technologies. The warfighter’s eyes are locked intently on the remotely piloted aircraft display, but perhaps too much so as the eye-tracking software indicates other screens are overlooked. Tasked with managing several remotely piloted aircraft, at
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Advanced Aviation Technology - A2Tech has performed the first official flights of its new RV-VTOLx4 Multi-Rotor Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) at Peschiera del Garda, Italy. This first pre-production airframe - S# P001 - took to the air for hovering flight tests earlier in spring of this year. The RPA
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Boeing's unmanned aircraft, Phantom Eye, completed its first take off and landing June 1. The autonomous aircraft, with its 150-foot wingspan and powered by energy-efficient liquid hydrogen, lifted off its launch cart and climbed to an altitude of 4,080 feet into the desert sky above Edwards Air
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House lawmakers recently chastised the US Department of Homeland Security for failing to take charge of security aspects related to the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into civilian airspace. The issue is gaining prominence in part due to recent tests showing that "remote hackers" were able to
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With a wingspan of 400 feet, the Vulture will be the largest unmanned aircraft ever flown in the world, but for New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory it’s only the latest in a long string of groundbreaking projects PSL has been working on for decades. On September
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Raytheon just released this footage from the Small Tactical Munition (STM) flight test at the Yuma Proving Grounds in February 2012.The STM is 22 inches long, 3.6 inches in diameter and weighs 13.5 pounds, and could be used on a UAS with a payload as low as
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Raytheon has completed the preliminary design phase of the Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform (TEMP) programme awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Through the TEMP programme, Raytheon is creating an innovative system of modular technologies – including air and sea cargo transport, cargo transfer and onboard support resources – that
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Gizmodo claims that one of the reasons that the FAA is closing down a large area around Devil's Lake, North Dakota is to test UAS lasers.The restricted zone will be reserved for unmanned aircraft—civilian planes will have to fly at a different altitude, or around the
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The U.S. Army is standing by its approach of continuing to fly, buy and upgrade its Gray Eagles notwithstanding software glitches encountered on the road to the programme’s initial operational test and evaluation, which is scheduled to begin the first week of August at Fort Irwin, California. The
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A team from the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System programme office tested communication software for the Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) programme aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during its sea trials, July 7-10. The UCAS-D programme, based at the Naval Air Systems Command
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Carolina Unmanned Vehicles, Inc. (CUV) has announced the delivery of a new version of their Lightweight Aerostat System (LAS) for the Small Tactical Multi-Payload Aerostat System (STMPAS). STMPAS combines the LAS hardware from CUV and payloads developed by Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) for the Army Rapid Equipping Force (REF)
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The US Air National Guard just announced that on May 7, 2012 the 163d Reconnaissance Wing took part in the Ardent Sentry Exercise which focused on Defense support of civil entities during a crisis situation. The object of the exercise was to launch an MQ-1 Predator from Fort Polk by