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Virgin Galactic’s FAA Clearance Could Pave Way for December Space Flights
The Federal Aviation Administration has given Virgin Galactic the go-ahead to offer space travel through the company’s facilities in New Mexico and commercial chartered flights could be available as early…
Iridium Extends Satellite Services Deal With SkyBitz; David Wigglesworth Comments
Iridium Communications will continue providing satellite connectivity to SkyBitz in order to help the latter company’s customers track global assets and use asset information to make business decisions. SkyBitz developed its SkyBitz as a Service offering…
L-3 Unveils APEX First Responder, Urban Warfare Drone; J.R. Gear Comments
L-3 Communications‘ Unmanned Systems segment has launched its Airborne Pursuit and Exploitation unmanned aircraft system at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s Unmanned Systems 2014 conference held on May 12 to…
General Atomics, Rohde & Schwarz to Add Radio Systems In Border Control Unmanned Aircraft
General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems unit has entered into a partnership with Rohde & Schwarz to integrate air traffic control radio systems into the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft, which is…
Pentagon Approves Lockheed-MBDA JV’s ‘Friend or Foe’ System; Dave Berganini Comments
A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and MBDA has obtained federal certification for a technology that works to identify non-hostile aircraft during combat operations. The Defense Department‘s International AIMS Program Office…
NGA Chief Letitia Long: US Set to Move on High-Res Satellite Imagery Sale Rules
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Letitia Long has expressed confidence that the U.S. government will eventually let commercial firms sell high-resolution satellite imagery, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes that…
Ken Asbury: Army Taps CACI to Help Build Network Interoperability Tech
CACI International has won a $21 million task order to help the U.S. Army integrate data networking and connectivity tools for the branch’s tactical command infrastructure. The potential two-year contract…
Harris to Add Internet in Central Asian Country’s Tactical Comm System; Brendan O’Connell Comments
Harris Corp. has won a $78 million contract to add a mobile tactical Internet to a tactical communications system for an unnamed country based in Central Asia that seeks to bolster its…
Minda Suchan: Exelis Designed Sensor to ID Gases in ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Areas
Exelis has finished a series of flight tests on a sensor and processing system the company built to detect potentially hazardous substances and gases by pointing in multiple directions. The company’s…
Kevin Westfall: Lockheed’s ‘Waterproof’ UAV Built to Fly in Fixed-Wing, Tilt-Rotor Variants
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new small unmanned aerial vehicle that the company built to be waterproof and to function with autonomous flight, landing and fail-safe features. “Vector Hawk” weighs four…
Lockheed Integrates New Ground Control Tech With Unmanned Aerial System; Jay McConville Comments
Lockheed Martin has integrated its Expeditionary Ground Control Station technology with the Fury unmanned aerial system to support communications, processing, payload tasking and other ground control operations. “[We] needed a ground control hardware…
Michael Horowitz: Limits on Export Policy Could Cost US Drone Sales, Market Control
Michael Horowitz, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has recommended the government re-examine its export policy on unmanned aircraft systems and warnedthat limitations could lose the country’s lead in the…
George Vardoulakis: Northrop, Yamaha Add Unmanned ISR Helicopter to ‘Bat’ Family
Northrop Grumman worked with Yamaha Motor to develop an unmanned helicopter system for activities such as powerline inspections, wildfire monitoring and search-and-rescue flights. The Rotary Bat drone features a Yamaha-made airframe,…
LGS Innovations Helps Army Update C4 Systems; Kevin Kelly Comments
LGS Innovations has completed upgrade work on a communications infrastructure at a U.S. Army-run facility located at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. The Army’s Kuwait-based main communications facility is responsible for managing the…
Ken Asbury: CACI Adds C4ISR Work Through Army SIGINT System Support Contract
CACI International will provide lifecycle support for the Guardrail/Common Sensor airborne location and dissemination system under a potential 30-month, $41 million contract with the U.S. Army‘s project manager for sensor-aerial intelligence. “Our new… Read more »