Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has acquired software engineering company 5-D Systems for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to ...
Smart cities are developing around the world. In order to turn them into sustainable and livable spaces, one of the key points is that they must ...
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. is pleased to provide an update on ongoing successful testing of the Robin XL drone at the Company’s ‘Tranquility Base’ test ...
UAVs are vital for inspection and reconnaissance, so the launching procedure is of great importance. But in challenging conditions, sometimes it’s rather difficult to launch the drone from the runway. And that’s whenbungee catapult launcher ...
November 20, 2020
DRL Partners with BODYARMOR, Champion Athleticwear and RESPAWN as 2020 LIVE Racing Season Begins
The Drone Racing League (DRL), the global, professional drone racing property, today announced new first-time partnerships with premium sports drink BODYARMOR, innovative apparel brand Champion Athleticwear and gaming furniture brand RESPAWN. The ...
The US Air Force has awarded a contract to SRCTec for the design, delivery and sustenance of counter unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technology, which will aid its Medusa counter-sUAS programme.The US Air Force has awarded a contract to SRCTec ...
uAvionix today announces its participation in the deployment of Vantis, North Dakota’s statewide Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) infrastructure and network led by the Northern Plains UAS Test Site. As ...
November 19, 2020
Skyfront Unveils Control Handoff Capability During First Drone Delivery to a Submarine
The long-endurance hybrid-electric Skyfront Perimeter drone was recently used to perform the first ship-to-submarine delivery via small unmanned aircraft. During the historic flight, the Perimeter took off from a moving surface vessel and ...
November 19, 2020
PCS Engineers Innovative Cold Chain Platform for Transport of COVID-19 Vaccines Across Multiple Modes of Transport from Drones to Planes to Trucks
As COVID-19 vaccines prepare to launch, drug makers are wrestling with the unprecedented scale and complexity of setting up supply chain and distribution of vaccines from the manufacturing plant to the clinic, for the entire world. Central to this ...
Matternet, developer of the world's leading urban drone logistics platform, today announced the launch of operations at Labor Berlin Charité Vivantes in Germany. The program kicked-off November 17, 2020 with permanent operations expected to ...
November 18, 2020
Iowa Signs Participating Addendum with DroneUp Providing Public Sector Agencies Access to Drone Services
DroneUp, LLC and the State of Iowa have signed a Participating Addendum for the NASPO ValuePoint contract for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle services established as the Contract Number #21171. This begins the offering for the purchase of complete drone ...
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Alpine 4 Technologies, Ltd., owner of leading small market businesses, announced today that it has entered into a binding merger agreement with Impossible Aerospace Corporation. Impossible Aerospace builds high-performance electric aircraft and drones. Its customers range from the US Airforce to the City of Santa Clara, and other municipalities. ...
Fortem Technologies, Inc., the leader in airspace security and defense for detecting and defeating dangerous drones, announced today the formation of a Government Advisory Board composed of former military, intelligence, and federal government executives across civilian, defense, and intelligence sectors. The Government Advisory Board will provide ...
Innovative technology is being used by distribution operator Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) to monitor towers on the 64,000 kilometers of overhead power lines across its central southern England patch; helping to maintain a secure network and keep the power flowing for its 3.1 million customers in the south.The £420,000 programme in ...
JDavis, an architecture and urban planning firm, joined the Advanced Mobility Collective in its mission to help accelerate the innovative use of autonomous air and ground vehicles.The firm, with offices in Raleigh and Philadelphia, will collaborate with the broad range of members of The Collective to envision how the design of buildings and surrounding ...
Volansi, Inc., the leader in vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) middle-mile drone delivery services, is pleased to announce the opening of a new facility in Oregon’s Bend area. The location will support the company’s expansion as it develops, produces, and tests its next generation of industry-defining delivery aircraft. The facility will also ...
FlytBase, Inc has announced the release of hardware-agnostic cloud-based drone APIs, enabling enterprises to easily integrate drones with their business applications. Drones are rapidly transitioning into fully-automated commercial tools that are being deployed for a range of applications, e.g., aerial security, delivery, public-safety, inspections, ...
DJI, the global leader in drone and camera technology, is again transforming farming with its latest agriculture drone, the DJI AGRAS T20. This durable, high-performance and intelligent precision agriculture spraying drone packs impressive features into a modular and portable design, making it accessible and scalable for farmers who are ready to apply ...
D-Fend Solutions – the leader in radio frequency (RF), cyber-based, non-kinetic, non-jamming, counter-drone takeover technology – today announced the expansion of its North American headquarters in McLean, Virginia. This announcement follows D-Fend Solutions' strategic focus on North America, its continued growth in the ...
Sixteen teams will compete in the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge Cave Circuit Virtual Competition. At 2:00pm ET, viewers will be able to experience a webcast of the event that follows teams as they progress through a variety of virtual cave worlds in a quest to correctly identify and locate artifacts placed throughout and see who comes out on top. ...
In ground breaking research conducted for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O), Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) has demonstrated a team composed of a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and a search and rescue canine collaborating together without intervention from a human handler to ...
We are excited to share that Vantage was selected for four different Department of Defense (DoD) contracts in the last five months. These new wins allow Vantage to expand our investments in the core technology pushing limits on sensor performance, flight performance, autonomy, communications and ruggedization for our customers in both the DoD as well as ...
Aireon LLC (Aireon) announces a new partnership today with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to explore innovative uses of space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) across the entire air traffic management spectrum using a global dataset. Under the agreement, in which L3Harris Technologies is the prime contractor, the FAA will ...
On Monday, November 16, 2020, the second annual National Drone Safety Awareness Week will begin, kicking off seven days of educational programming about how to safely operate unmanned aerial systems (UAS), commonly known as drones. Know Before You Fly, a public-private partnership focused on drone safety, is collaborating with the Federal Aviation Admini...
Kongsberg Geospatial and Unifly partner to provide integrated Urban Situational Awareness for drones
Kongsberg Geospatial announced today that it has partnered with Unifly to enable real-time e-Identification and tracking of drones using Unifly BLIP (Broadcast Location & Identity Platform).Kongsberg Geospatial’s airspace situational awareness system IRIS was developed based on technology originally created for missile defense applications, and ...
Martin UAV successfully demonstrated the shipboard integration of its V-BAT as well as its impressive maritime capabilities in support of United States Southern Command's (SOUTHCOM) counter narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific from Oct. 6, 2019 to July 31, 2020.Support for the mission included the highly ...