The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is urging policy makers to consider the weight, speed, and range of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) so as to allow U.S. company exports of such systems without running the risk that foreign countries could use some of the exports to proliferate cruise ...

The U.S. military’s plans to acquire more unmanned ground robotic vehicles and potential applications for the technology in public safety and industrial markets are driving FLIR Systems’ [FLIR] pending acquisition of Endeavor Robotics, company officials said on Wednesday. Even if Endeavor doesnâ ...

As part of government efforts to develop a system to track a burgeoning number of low flying small commercial drones, the Department of Homeland Security is supporting the development of technology that could help distinguish friendly from potentially unfriendly unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). ...

Fresh off an acquisition for maker of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), FLIR Systems [FLIR] on Monday said it has agreed to acquire Endeavor Robotics, which makes small robotic ground vehicles for military, public safety and law enforcement customers for $385 million in cash. The acquisition ...

The Department of Homeland Security is working toward conducting separate series of evaluations later this year of systems that can be used to detect, track, identify, and in some cases, defeat drones flying in areas where they don’t belong. By early this summer, the DHS Science and Technology (S& ...

MESA, Ariz. — As the U.S. Army Futures Command opens its doors in Austin, Texas, one of its primary tasks will be “taking a new look at how we’re acquiring our systems,” Bill Lewis, the director of the Army Aviation Development Directorate, told the Vertical Flight Society’ ...