UAV Factory Acquired by Aerospace & Defense Equity Firm
UAV Factory has been acquired by AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense and government services. UAV Factory will be a new standalone unmanned...
View ArticleSelf-Protection System Successfully Demonstrated on MQ-9 UAS
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has successfully completed flight testing of a Self-Protection Pod (SPP) for its MQ-9 unmanned aerial system (UAS). The pod allows the aircraft to...
View ArticleScopito Wins Infrastructure Maintenance Inspection Platform Award
Drone inspection data management solution Scopito has been awarded Best Infrastructure Maintenance Inspection Platform 2020 at the Corporate Vision Small Business Awards. Each year, Corporate Vision...
View ArticleDrone Delivery Service Launched on Guam
Valqari’s Drone Delivery Station technology is being deployed as part of a new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-based delivery service launching on the island of Guam. Valqari has partnered with local...
View ArticleUK’s First Medical Drone Delivery Network to be Developed
A consortium of 13 organisations, led by AGS Airports, has been formed to develop and trial the UK’s first national distribution network using drones to transport essential medicines, blood, organs,...
View ArticleMANET Radio & EO/IR Gimbal Integrated onto Tethered sUAS
Zenith AeroTech has successfully integrated an advanced flight radar, gimbaled EO/IR camera, and mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) radio onto its Quad 8 tethered small unmanned aerial system (sUAS)....
View ArticleMiniature LiDAR Sensor Selected for Autonomous Scanning System
Velodyne Lidar has entered into an agreement to provide its Puck LITE LiDAR sensors to Emesent, developers of the Hovermap mobile scanning system for mapping hazardous and GPS-denied environments....
View ArticleDronecloud to Develop Drone Management Software for Railway Inspection
Dronecloud has entered into an agreement to provide management software for the fleet of drones operated by Network Rail, the organization responsible for managing much of the railway network in Great...
View ArticleNew IFF Solutions Provide Enhanced Situational Awareness for UAVs
uAvionix has launched a full lineup of Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) solutions for small, tactical, and attritable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The new solutions are designed to provide...
View ArticleCAMCOPTER S-100 UAS Selected by Nordic Unmanned
Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been selected by drone services provider Nordic Unmanned as its system of choice for carrying out maritime pollution and emissions...
View ArticleCounter-UAS Platform Offers Compliance with US & EU Remote ID Standards
Counter-drone technology platform Dedrone has become the first to provide users with compliance with both U.S. and E.U. government-provided remote ID standards for the identification of drones. The...
View ArticleMaritime Surveillance Systems Tested on SeaGuardian UAS
Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s maritime surveillance technologies have been successfully flight tested on board a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) SeaGuardian unmanned aerial...
View ArticleC-ASTRAL Provides C4ISR Capabilities for VTOL Cargo UAV
C-ASTRAL Aerospace has been selected to provide C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) capabilities for the upgraded version of Pipistrel’s...
View ArticleUK’s Dstl Trials Drone Swarm Technology
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has recently completed an exercise with a swarm of 20 drones in the largest collaborative military-focused evaluation of swarming unmanned...
View ArticleMicrodrones to Premiere New Episodes of UAV Surveying Series
Microdrones has created three new episodes of its “Down to Earth” reality series, which focuses on the challenges and hazards faced by real UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) surveying crews, as well as...
View ArticleMobile Counter-Drone Solution Launched
DroneShield and Trakka Systems have partnered to develop the TIPS-C (Trakka Interceptor Package Solution), a new counter-UAS (unmanned aerial systems) product that is mounted on a mobile platform. The...
View ArticleMicro IFF UAS Transponder Receives DoD AIMS Certification
Sagetech Avionics has been awarded the world’s first 17-1000 Mark XIIB certification by the U.S. Department of Defense AIMS Program Office for its MX12B micro Mode 5 Identify Friend or Foe (IFF)...
View ArticleHigh-Pressure Valve Developed for UAV Hydrogen Transportation
Intelligent Energy has launched a new addition to its range of hydrogen fuel cell modules and accessories for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Pressure Tech CV414 is a high-pressure EU TPED...
View ArticleIris Automation Joins WEF Global Innovators Community
Iris Automation has been invited to join the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators community, an invitation-only group of leading start-ups and scale-ups that are deemed to be at the forefront of...
View ArticleAir-Launched Munition UAV Project Underway
DARPA has kicked off Phase 1 of its LongShot program, which aims to develop an air-launched unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that can employ multiple air-to-air weapons, extend engagement ranges, and reduce...
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