Tag Archives: Unmanned Aerial System

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems combined a small unmanned aerial system and a Ghost Robotics-built robot dog to map and identify indoor threats using optical scanning and artificial intelligence for a tech demonstration held in December, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has commenced a series of flights for its MQ-9B SeaGuardian remotely piloted aircraft system as part of a demonstration for the Japanese coast guard.

The U.S. Air Force has received Northrop Grumman-built sensor and camera technologies in a push to modernize the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft for the service branch and the geographic combatant commands.

The Department of Defense’s innovation arm is looking for artificial intelligence technologies and concepts that can support autonomous maneuver and navigation functionalities for small unmanned aerial systems.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division is seeking qualified U.S. companies to join a multiphase sourcing process for the development and demonstration of an unmanned aerial system that would not require support equipment to function in an austere environment.

Defense technology startup Anduril has raised $200M in a recent funding round, which increased the company's value to $1.9B, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Honeywell has started testing and collecting data on its sensor technology designed to support its urban air mobility platforms ahead of demonstration activities over the next year.

The U.S. Navy has awarded General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business a $26.9M contract to provide MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial systems and a mobile control station to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and persistent strike activities.

The Federal Aviation Administration has selected eight companies to help develop requirements for future Remote Identification technology suppliers as part of FAA’s efforts to safely integrate unmanned aerial systems into the airspace.

An industry team that includes Boeing has unveiled an artificial intelligence-driven unmanned aircraft built to support missions under the Australian air force.

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business and the U.S. Marine Corps have completed the first operational flight of the company’s MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial system in the Middle East.

Auterion, a Swiss manufacturer of software for unmanned aerial systems, plans to make first shipments of its fixed-wing and trirotor drones in the fourth quarter of this year, C4ISRnet reported Wednesday.

General Atomics is conducting a series of demonstrations to test how the extended range variant of the Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system can support future multidomain operations, National Defense reported Friday.

Evan Hunt, business development director for high-energy lasers at Raytheon, has said the Department of Defense should put more focus on testing counter-unmanned aerial system technology for mid-sized drones, Air Force Magazine reported Thursday.

Telephonics’ multi-function radar suite has won first place in a U.S. Navy competition that will support the accelerated delivery of unmanned aerial systems to the U.S. Marine Corps.