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Janus Global Operations has helped Iraq’s security forces clear a main road near Baghdad of approximately 400 pounds of improvised explosive devices buried across six sites. The company said Friday it used an unmanned aerial vehicle to locate the sites and demining experts worked to neutralize the IEDs discovered within a 100-meter area of the main […] More
Airbus’ defense and space business has launched at the Farnborough Airshow an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Airbus said Monday it also opened the first production facility for the Zephyr S High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite UAV and named it after Zephyr inventor Chris Kelleher. Sophie Thomas, head of the Zephyr […] More
Raytheon has secured a potential two-year, $29.7 million contract to develop a naval prototype for the U.S. Navy’s Low Cost UAV Swarming Technology program. The Navy will obligate $7.1 million in fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said Tuesday. LOCUST prototyping work will occur at the company’s […] More
Boeing‘s venture capital arm has invested in Matternet, a company developing an unmanned aerial vehicle designed for urban logistics use. The California-based startup raised $16 million through a recent Series A funding round led by HorizonX Ventures, Boeing said Tuesday. Matternet received authorization last year to operate a UAV platform over Switzerland’s densely populated areas and has delivered medical samples to Swiss hospitals […] More
A Ballard Power Systems subsidiary has received orders from the U.S. Navy to supply fuel cell propulsion systems to power unmanned aerial vehicle or drone platforms. Protonex will provide a variant of the 600-watt PEM propulsion technology for the Naval Research Laboratory-designed Hybrid Tiger UAV, Ballard said Tuesday. Deliveries are scheduled to occur this year. NRL is exploring UAV power systems in […] More
The Naval Research Laboratory has chosen a solar technology from Alta Devices to help power a small unmanned aerial vehicle designed to fly for a minimum of 3.5 days. Alta Devices said Monday it will provide the company’s technology to the Hybrid Tiger project that aims to demonstrate long-range UAV operations by combining solar and hydrogen fuel cells with guidance algorithms. […] More
BAE Systems and Prismatic have partnered to develop a solar-powered, high-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle that can be used for surveillance and communications operations in remote areas. BAE Systems said Thursday the Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft-35Â will be equipped with battery and solar cell technology that would allow the 330-pound UAV to remain aloft […] More
The Defense Department has decided to sell General Atomics-built Predator-B armed unmanned aerial vehicles to the Indian military, Hindustan Times reported Tuesday. U.S. and Indian diplomatic officials told the publication that DoD conveyed its decision through government channels. The report said Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could bring up the proposed […] More
Dynetics has won a $32.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue developing a system to deploy and recover multiple small unmanned air vehicles from large aircraft. The company will aim to produce and demonstrate an aerial launch-and-recovery system under the third phase of DARPA’s Gremlins program, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Phase 3 of […] More
Raytheon demonstrated microwave and laser weapons systems for countering drone swarms at a U.S. Army experiment held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in December, the Albuquerque Journal reported Wednesday. Susan Kelly, Raytheon’s New Mexico site director, told the publication the demonstrations showcased the capacity of a ground-based weapon to simultaneously disable groups of two to three unmanned aerial vehicles […] More
Amazon.com has secured a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an unmanned aerial vehicle that is designed to react to human gestures, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The patent supports Amazon’s plans to develop a fleet of UAVs that will work to deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes. The UAV will use various […] More
The Defense Department has started to accept solution briefs for an underwater-launched unmanned aerial vehicle with interface and control features similar to those of existing consumer drones. A solicitation notice posted on the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental’s website says that DoD seeks a platform that can process full-motion video and operate for more than one hour at a range […] More
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