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  • Airbus Establishes Aerial Imagery Business for Commercial, Govt Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Establishes Aerial Imagery Business for Commercial, Govt Customers

    Airbus has formed a new subsidiary that aims to offer aerial imagery services across the energy, agriculture, insurance and state and local government sectors. Airbus Aerial has main offices in the U.S. and Europe and seeks to use aerospace and software platforms in efforts to help customers obtain and analyze data from unmanned aerial vehicles, high-altitude aircraft and satellites, the company […] More

  • Echodyne Tests Detect and Avoid Radar on Commercial Drone; Eben Frankenburg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Echodyne Tests Detect and Avoid Radar on Commercial Drone; Eben Frankenburg Comments

    Echodyne has completed an airborne test of a detect-and-avoid radar technology mounted on a commercial small unmanned aerial vehicle. The company said Nov. 8 its radar is designed to help UAVs sense moving and stationary obstacles with radar vision when drones fly through the airspace beyond the operator’s line of sight. The tests were conducted using Echodyne’s patented Metamaterial Electronically Scanning […] More

  • Liberty University Offers On-Campus Drone Pilot Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Liberty University Offers On-Campus Drone Pilot Training

    Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics now offers an on-campus training program for pilots of fixed-wing and multi-rotor small unmanned aircraft systems. The Federal Aviation Administration‘s regulations on the commercial use of drones work to allow the training program’s students to fly small UAS weighing less than 55 pounds on campus, the university said Tuesday. The […] More