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Northrop Grumman and Triumph Group have signed a memorandum of agreement at the Farnborough International Air Show in an effort to increase the production rate of high-altitude unmanned aircraft systems. The agreement calls for the two companies to collaborate on UAS delivery, knowledge transfer and program quality and affordability initiatives, Triumph said Tuesday. Dan Crowley, Triumph president and CEO, said the […] More
Technical organization IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association have launched the IEEE Aerial Network Communications Working Group to structure standards for aircraft systems. Group members will work to establish the IEEE P1920.1 project designed to develop standards for air-to-air communications in an ad hoc aerial network and situational awareness for commercial, civil manned and unmanned aircraft […] More
Northrop Grumman has worked with the U.S. Air Force‘s Life Cycle Management Center and Air Combat Command to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payload adapter for the Block 30 RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system. The parties built the IPA technology under a cooperative research-and-development agreement as part of efforts to link existing and future data-gathering sensors with the RQ-4 drone’s airframe system, the […] More
Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $71.6 million contract to manufacture a fifth batch of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Insitu will produce six Blackjack air vehicles, ground control stations, launch-and-recovery systems and shipboard equipment kits under the low-rate initial production contract. Insitu will conduct the production work in Bingen, Washington, and […] More
Babcock‘s proposed system for the British defense science and technology laboratory’s Laser Directed Energy Weapon Capability Demonstrator program will incorporate the Raytheon-built Phalanx air defense technology, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the LDEW-CD competition seeks a 20-millimeter laser-equipped Gatling machine gun designed to counter potential airborne threats, including unmanned aircraft systems, to naval ships. The report said the Babcock offering […] More
Battelle will present one of its anti-unmanned aircraft systems devices and several other technology platforms at the Navy League’s Sea Air Space Show from May 16 to 18 in Maryland. The nonprofit’s man-portable DroneDefender device works to disrupt small UAS devices through radio control frequency before the drones present a threat to military and civilian activities, Battelle said Tuesday. […] More
Raytheon has created an unmanned aircraft systems directorate under its advanced missile systems product line in Arizona in efforts to consolidate the elements of small UAS production including airframe, payload integration and command-and-control technology. The company said Tuesday it will also increase delivery of its Coyote and Silver Fox UAS platforms to address a growth in small UAS demand. Thomas Bussing, Raytheon […] More
AeroVironment will display its new electro-optical/infrared gimbal payload for small unmanned aircraft systems at the annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International XPONENTIAL conference Monday through Thursday in New Orleans. Mantis i45 is used on the Puma all-environment unmanned aerial vehicle for commercial and military applications and features a suite of sensors such as EO and IR imagers, dual-color cameras, an illuminator and an […] More
Simulyze has launched a new operational intelligence application intended to help customers gain a complete view of unmanned aircraft systems in real time. Called Mission Insight, the new commercial off-the-shelf offering works to process and analyze huge volume of data from various sources to provide situational awareness to UAS operators, Simulyze said Feb. 17. Kevin […] More
CACI International, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Homeland Security have conducted research on technologies that work to detect unmanned aircraft systems in commercial airports. FAA said Thursday the program seeks to address safety and security concerns regarding unauthorized UAS flown near airports and manned airplanes. The agency noted that it receives more than 100 reports a month […] More
AeroVironment booked $47.1 million in contracts during the past two months to help the U.S. Army sustain small hand-launched unmanned aircraft systems. The contracts cover sustainment work on RQ-11B Raven and RQ-20A Puma drones the company built for the military service, AeroVironment said Monday. The Army uses the Raven to support low-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. […] More
NSR projects global revenues of the satellite-based unmanned aerial systems market to be $3.1 billion by 2023, up from $1.3 billion last year. Growth will be driven by demand for satellite communications technology intended to support drones used in homeland security, disaster management and peacekeeping operations, NSR said Thursday. Commercial satellite operators are projected to […] More
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