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  • AeroVironment, SmartC2 to Help NASA Conduct UAS Flight Demo's Second Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment, SmartC2 to Help NASA Conduct UAS Flight Demo’s Second Phase

    AeroVironment, SmartC2 and NASA have forged a partnership to perform a second phase of field tests on the space agency’s unmanned traffic management technology in October. AeroVironment said Thursday researchers will assess the Puma AE’s onboard autopilot three-dimensional geo-fencing functions, backup data link command-and-control and ADS-B integration into NASA’s UTM research platform. SmartC2 will deploy its VirtualAirBoss aviation business […] More

  • Lockheed Develops Reconfigurable Small UAS for Maritime Users; Jay McConville Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Develops Reconfigurable Small UAS for Maritime Users; Jay McConville Comments

    Lockheed Martin will continue to develop a small unmanned aircraft system that works to adapt to various maritime operations under a $4.6 million contract. The company has begun to build a Vector Hawk drone with fixed-wing, collapsible-wing and tilt-rotor configurations, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. Jay McConville, Lockheed Martin director of business development for unmanned solutions, said Vector Hawk’s canister deployment and launch functions work […] More

  • Lockheed Selects L-3 Digital Data Link for Small UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects L-3 Digital Data Link for Small UAS

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a subcontract to L-3 Communications to equip the U.K. defense ministry’s Desert Hawk III DDL digital platform with the MICRO Secure Digital Data Link. The companies said Dec. 1 that L-3’s MICRO SDDL will support communications for the small unmanned aircraft system’s command-and-control and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Kevin Westfall, director of LM MST’s unmanned solutions business, said that […] 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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