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  • Boeing's Insitu to Equip ScanEagle UAS with Maritime Surveillance Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu to Equip ScanEagle UAS with Maritime Surveillance Tech

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu has partnered with Hood Technologies and Sentient to integrate maritime detection technology into Insitu-built small unmanned aerial systems such as the ScanEagle UAS. Insitu said Tuesday it aims to equip its ScanEagle with the Visual Detection and Ranging system that is designed to scan the ocean in a 180-degree arc around the front of a drone. The ViDAR software — developed by Sentient’s vision systems business – works to […] More

  • Boeing’s Insitu to Integrate Ballard Subsidiary’s Fuel Cell Propulsion System With ScanEagle UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu to Integrate Ballard Subsidiary’s Fuel Cell Propulsion System With ScanEagle UAV

    Ballard Power Systems’ Protonex subsidiary has handed prototypes of fuel cell propulsion modules to Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary for integration with an unmanned aerial vehicle. Protonex’s fuel cell-based proton exchange membrane modules will work to provide propulsion functions for the Insitu-built ScanEagle UAV, Ballard Power Systems said Monday. Insitu plans to begin flight demonstrations of ScanEagle with […] More

  • Insitu ScanEagle UAS Monitors Pacific NW Wildfire for Demonstration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu ScanEagle UAS Monitors Pacific NW Wildfire for Demonstration

    Insitu has flown a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft in the Pacific Northwest region to monitor the Olympic National Park wildfire. Fire officials used Insitu’s motion imagery software to determine the fire’s perimeter and assess water drop locations as part of that demonstration, Insitu said Tuesday. “This and other planned unmanned aircraft systems demonstrations will serve to guide our policies, procedures and […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu Subsidiary Flies ScanEagle During Coast Guard's Arctic S&R Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary Flies ScanEagle During Coast Guard’s Arctic S&R Exercise

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has flown its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle in the Arctic region as part of search-and-rescue demonstrations before the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, Energy Department and other industry participants. Insitu said Thursday the Coast Guard Research and Development Center’s Arctic Technology Evaluation 2015 Search and Rescue exercise aims to assess the capability of unmanned technologies […] More

  • Industry Explores New Tech to Power Unmanned Underwater Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Explores New Tech to Power Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

    Several technology companies are developing power generation systems and methods to operate unmanned undersea vehicles for an extended period of time, National Defense Magazine reports. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes Rich Granger, business development lead at Battelle‘s maritime systems business, told the magazine that the company has designed a platform that aims to transfer power and data […] More

  • Insitu Refreshes ScanEagle UAV Platform; Ryan Hartman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu Refreshes ScanEagle UAV Platform; Ryan Hartman Comments

    Insitu, a Boeing subsidiary, has upgraded its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle platform. ScanEagle 2 features a reciprocating internal combustion propulsion system that is built for small UAS, Insitu said Wednesday. “ScanEagle 2 will shepherd us into the next two decades as we focus on reliability and affordability and enter the civil/commercial market,” said Ryan Hartman, Insitu president and […] More

  • Orbital Corp. Delivers 1st Engine for Insitu's Small UAS; Terry Stinson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital Corp. Delivers 1st Engine for Insitu’s Small UAS; Terry Stinson Comments

    Boeing‘s subsidiary Insitu will start to perform testing and development work on the propulsion system for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle following Orbital Corp.‘s delivery of the first engine. Orbital said Tuesday that the internal-combustion engine was built specifically for small unmanned aircraft systems such as the ScanEagle. Terry Stinson, chief executive and managing director of Orbital, said the company will now move […] More

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  • Ryan Hartman: Boeing's Insitu to Explore Commercial Markets for ScanEagle UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ryan Hartman: Boeing’s Insitu to Explore Commercial Markets for ScanEagle UAV

    Ryan Hartman, CEO of Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary, said the business is looking to make its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle commercially available for agricultural and environmental uses, Avionics Magazine reported Wednesday. Woodrow Bellamy III writes that Hartman wants to adopt a UAV commercialization strategy similar to the one Insitu used when it entered the defense market. […] More

  • Insitu Drone Used to Monitor Bushland Fires; Andrew Duggan, Kevin Moore Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu Drone Used to Monitor Bushland Fires; Andrew Duggan, Kevin Moore Comment

    Insitu’s Australia-based subsidiary has demonstrated its unmanned aircraft system to observe bushland fires for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. Insitu Pacific deployed the ScanEagle aircraft in January to report on fire movement across the Wollemi National Park bushland through the General Dynamics Mediaware-built video streaming system, Insitu Pacific said Tuesday. Kevin Moore, chief […] More