Unmanned Systems
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Air ForcePlatform Aerospace Looks to Field Ultra Long Endurance Drones with Air Force and Navy
Platform Aerospace, a small Maryland company that lists itself as a service-disabled veteran-owned business founded in 1993, finished an eight day-long flight of the company’s Vanilla Unmanned aircraft at Edwards […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologySaildrone Set To Launch New USV It Believes Will Meet Maritime Domain Awareness Needs
ST. LOUIS—Saildrone, the small designer and manufacturer of wind-propelled unmanned surface vessels (USVs), this month will launch a new vessel that it believes will meet the needs of its customers […]
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Homeland SecurityInitial Air Domain Awareness Evaluations Show Need For Common Standards, DHS Official Says
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate is assessing data from two evaluations this year to detect, track and identify small drones and aircraft in wide open […]
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Unmanned SystemsJCO Completes Second C-sUAS Demonstration
The Defense Department’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) Office (JCO) has completed its second semi-annual demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground focused on ground-launched aerial denial and handheld and dismounted […]
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Navy/USMCSerco Completes Phase 1A For DARPA NOMARS Program
Serco Inc. announced it has completed Phase 1A Concept Design for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) X-Ship program. NOMARS is a two-phase DARPA […]
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ArmyArmy Leader-Follower Program Heading For Large Exercise; Nearing Production Readiness
Ongoing testing of optionally-manned cargo trucks in leader-follower configurations that began two years ago has developed hardware and software to the point where the Army plans to use the systems […]
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Business/FinancialLeonardo, Northrop Grumman Partner On VTOL UAS Opportunities
Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Italy’s Leonardo this week said they will jointly pursue global opportunities in the market for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). The companies […]
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Business/FinancialUAV Factory Acquires Jennings Aeronautics, Boosting UAS Capabilities
The private equity firm AE Industrial Partners (AEI) on Tuesday said it acquired Jennings Aeronautics, Inc. (JAI), a designer, developer and manufacturer of small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS). The firm […]
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Navy/USMCMQ-25 Test Aircraft Conducts First F-35C Refueling
Boeing’s [BA] MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker test asset, called T1, conducted the first unmanned aerial refueling with a Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35C Joint Strike Fighter for the Navy on […]
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Homeland SecurityTech Developments
Fortem in Successful Drone Detection Test Event for Defense Officials Fortem Technologies says its counter unmanned aircraft system (CUAS) technologies were successfully tested earlier this year in an urban environment […]