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senseFly Announces New eBee Plus Mapping Drone
senseFly, a producer of professional mapping drones, has released details of its next-generation fixed-wing UAS for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the eBee Plus, which will be officially...
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Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Counter-UAS Technologies
Northrop Grumman Corporation recently took part in the annual U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Black Dart exercise for countering unmanned aerial systems (UASs). Managed by the Joint Integrated Air...
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microdrones and Delair-Tech Form Strategic Alliances with Trimble
The Trimble approved microdrones md4-1000 UAS Following the sale of its Gatewing UAS business, Trimble has entered into strategic alliances with Delair-Tech and microdrones of Siegen, Germany. Under...
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Delair-Tech Acquires Trimble’s Gatewing UAS Business
Trimble has confirmed that Delair-Tech has acquired its Belgium-based Gatewing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) engineering and manufacturing business. Headquartered in Toulouse, France, Delair-Tech...
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Northrop Grumman Tests Optical Bar Camera on Global Hawk UAS
Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that it has successfully flown an Optical Bar Camera broad-area synoptic sensor on an RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft system...
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Sentient and Insitu to Showcase ViDAR Optical Radar for UAS
Sentient and Insitu have announced that the two companies will demonstrate the ViDAR wide area autonomous detection system on the ScanEagle UAS at the UK Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior demonstration...
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Aeryon Announces Real-Time Video Processing and New EO/IR Payload
Aeryon Labs has announced the introduction of Vector, an integrated onboard computing platform dedicated to real-time video processing. Available on select Aeryon payloads including the Aeryon...
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GDU Launches Advanced Byrd Folding and Modular Consumer Drone
GDU, a consumer drone manufacturer, has announced the launch of the Advanced Byrd, an upgrade to the company’s drone that folds up small enough to fit into a backpack. The Advanced model incorporates...
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Drone Aviation to Supply WATT Electric Tethered Drones to US DoD
Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply its WATT electric tethered drones to a U.S....
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Leonardo Osprey Radar to be used on MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS
Leonardo-Finmeccanica has announced that its Osprey active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been picked to serve as look-out on-board the US Navy’s newly-upgraded unmanned helicopter, the...
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Aurora Demonstrates ALIAS Robotic System on Cessna Aircraft
On October 17, Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrated automated flight capabilities as part of the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program. The ALIAS robotic system flew a Cessna...
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Aeryon SkyRanger sUAS Utilized for Aerial Intelligence During Summer Olympics
Aeryon Labs has announced that the company successfully deployed its small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) solutions during the Summer Olympic Games in Rio. Operated by the Brazilian Federal Police...
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Predator B UAS Equipped With Automatic Takeoff and Landing Software
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has released its newest flight software which...
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Draganfly Innovations to Test New Miniaturized Hyperspectral Sensor System
Draganfly Innovations has announced that the company has signed an agreement with Optical Filter Corporation, a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated, to integrate their miniaturized hyperspectral camera...
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DCNS and Airbus to Design Tactical VTOL UAS for French Navy
Naval defense firm DCNS and Airbus Helicopters have announced that the two companies are joining forces to design the future tactical component of France’s Naval Aerial Drone (Système de Drones...
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Ellipse-D INS Selected for new NEXUS 800 Drone
HYPACK, a Xylem brand, has released a new multi-rotor UAV surveying solution: the NEXUS 800. The NEXUS 800 is an out of the box turnkey system that tightly integrates hardware and software to provide...
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Triumph Supports MQ-4C Triton UAS Transition to Production
Triumph Group has announced that, in conjunction with Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy, the company will be paving the way for the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system to transition...
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NASA Awards Silent Falcon UAS Airworthiness Statement
Silent Falcon UAS Technologies has announced that it has been granted an Airworthiness Statement by the Airworthiness & Flight Safety Review Board, part of the Ames Research Center division of...
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Textron Systems Demonstrates Aerosonde HQ sUAS
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has announced that it has completed its inaugural customer demonstration of the Aerosonde HQ. The Aerosonde HQ combines the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL)...
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Makeblock Announces Airblock Modular Hexacopter and Hovercraft Drone
Robotics startup Makeblock has announced the release of Airblock, a modular six-axis drone that transforms into various flying configurations, including hexacopter and hovercraft. Airblock consists of...
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