AirMap and senseFly Partner to Deliver Safer Commercial Drone Solutions
AirMap and senseFly have announced that they have partnered to deliver AirMap’s airspace services to senseFly’s eBee fixed wing drones and albris quadcopter. AirMap’s airspace platform services will...
View ArticleU.S. Naval Research Laboratory Develops UAV Tactical Battle Manager
The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has announced that it has joined forces with Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) and...
View ArticleDJI Introduces M200 Drones for Aerial Inspections & Data Collection
DJI has unveiled the new Matrice 200 drone series (M200), which is purpose-built for professional users to perform aerial inspections and data collection. The M200 series’ folding body is easy to...
View ArticleAeryon SkyRanger sUAS Completes First Approved BVLOS Flight Test in Canada
Aeryon Labs has announced that the Aeryon SkyRanger small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) has successfully completed the first Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flight in Canada. The SkyRanger was...
View ArticleUAS Fleet Provides Situational Awareness During Army & Fire Rescue Joint...
Airborne Response, a drone services and consulting firm, has announced that a fleet of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), consisting of aerial drones and miniature aerostats, was used to provide live...
View ArticleUS Air Force to Retire MQ-1 Predator and Transition to MQ-9 Reaper
The U.S. Air Force has announced that it plans to retire the MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft in early 2018 to keep up with the continuously evolving battlespace environment. For the past 21...
View ArticleArctic Atmospheric Data Collection UAS to Undergo Flight Testing
The ArcticShark, a new unmanned aircraft system (UAS) designed to collect sophisticated atmospheric data in the Arctic, is to begin flight testing at Pendleton UAS Test Range prior to its scheduled...
View ArticleLeonardo to Develop Phase 2 of UK MoD RWUAS Demonstrator Program
Leonardo has announced that the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Technology Office has placed a two year, jointly funded, Research and Development contract for a...
View ArticleGeneral Atomics Announces Team Reaper Australia
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced the official launch of its Team Reaper Australia solution to the Project Air 7003 requirement for an armed unmanned aircraft, together with...
View ArticleVStar Systems and Martin UAV Successfully Test Signal Intelligence Sensor
VStar Systems has announced the successful flight test of its modular Signal Intelligence Sensor, MA-C/lite, aboard the Martin UAV V-Bat aircraft. Over the duration of 35 minutes at an altitude of 400...
View ArticlesenseFly and MicaSense Develop New Agricultural Drone & Data Solution
senseFly has announced that it has signed a commercial agreement with agricultural data gathering, processing, and analytics provider MicaSense that enables senseFly and its distribution partners to...
View ArticlePix4D Creates Drone-based Software Solutions for Surveying, Agriculture &...
Pix4D, a pioneering developer of software tools that create professional-grade georeferenced maps and models from drone-captured imagery, has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”) to...
View ArticleNorthrop Grumman Tests Multi-Spectral Sensor on RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS
Northrop Grumman has announced that it has begun flight testing of the MS-177 sensor payload with a successful inaugural flight on an RQ-4 Global Hawk high altitude long endurance autonomous aircraft...
View ArticleLeonardo Announces New Secure Air Traffic Management System for Drones
Leonardo has announced that the company is ready to deploy its automated system for unmanned aircraft air traffic management (ATM). Using new technologies, the system is able to efficiently and safely...
View ArticleHughes to Provide Satellite Communications for Type-Certifiable Predator B
Hughes Network Systems has announced that its Defense and Intelligence and Systems Division (DISD) has been awarded a contract by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to work with the...
View ArticleCyPhy Works and Pilot Thomas Logistics to Provide Oil & Gas Drone Services
CyPhy Works and Pilot Thomas Logistics have announced that the two firms have partnered to provide Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) services to customers in the oil and gas industry using CyPhy’s...
View ArticleThales and Unifly Announce ECOsystem UAS Traffic Management System
Thales has announced the launch of ECOsystem UTM, an advanced solution for Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management (UTM), built with key technology from partner Unifly. Joining forces to satisfy the...
View ArticleUS Air Force Uses UAV for C17 Globemaster Post-Flight Inspection
The U.S. Air Force has announced that its 412th Test Wing’s Emerging Technologies Combined Test Force (CTF) has used a quadcopter to conduct a maintenance inspection of the exterior of a C-17...
View Article7i Imaging Systems Introduces 4K Live Video Streaming From Drones
7i Imaging Systems, a specialist in digital image production from aerial platforms, has announced a 4K/1080p live streaming service from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Utilizing state-of-the-art...
View ArticleTerra Drone Launches New Heavy-Lifting UAV
Terra Drone Corporation has announced the launch of the new “Terra Powerlifter” unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) series, continuing its focus on developing technologies for the benefit of Australia’s...
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