uAvionix, the leader in certified and miniaturized communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) avionics today announced it has been investing ...
NV5 Geospatial , North America’s largest provider of geospatial data services and solutions, will share ground-breaking research on the ...
Connected Places Catapult has partnered with ANGOKA Ltd, a Belfast cybersecurity start-up and Cranfield University in an exciting project to support and ...
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced a multi-year sales agreement to provide Puck LITE™ sensors to Emesent, a world-leader in drone autonomy, lidar mapping and data analytics. Emesent is using Velodyne’s lidar sensors to power its ...
January 25, 2021
Red Cat to acquire Skypersonic Inc., developer of remote transoceanic piloting software system for the drone industry
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. , announced the signing of a letter of intent to acquire Skypersonic Inc., a provider of drone products and software solutions. Skyloc is a stand-alone, real time, software monitoring system which enables a drone to be ...
The University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC) has announced a new academic partnership with in-flight training provider MzeroA that will offer students the opportunity to further their education in drone operations."Exper...
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said Monday that it has signed two deals with a country in Central Asia, one to sell Heron MKII UAV systems and another to lease them. The deals are valued at tens of millions of dollars. The systems include ...
January 22, 2021
Tomahawk Robotics brings its Kinesis "universal robotic controller" app for UAS to MPU5 networked radio
Persistent Systems, LLC (“Persistent”) announced today that Tomahawk Robotics has joined the Wave Relay® Ecosystem, a rapidly growing industry alliance of unmanned system and sensor companies that use Persistent’s Wave Relay® mo...
January 22, 2021
Raytheon Intelligence and Space Maritime Surveillance Systems Flight Tested on GA-ASI SeaGuardian for Japan Coast Guard
Japan’s Coast Guard recently completed successful flight testing of Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business (NYSE: RTX), maritime surveillance technologies onboard a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI...
January 21, 2021
ANRA Providing Airspace Management for Large Scale European Union Urban Air Mobility Project
ANRA Technologies is pleased to announce its participation in AMU-LED, a Horizon 2020 project of the European Union framed in the SESAR Joint Undertaking, which aims to demonstrate the safe integration of cargo and passenger drone operations in ...
January 21, 2021
GA-ASI Completes UAS Anti-Submarine Warfare Demonstration of Sonobuoy Dispensing and Remote Processing
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) recently completed development and test of the world’s first self-contained Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) capability for an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS).On November 24, GA-ASI successfully ...
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ANRA Technologies, a leader in integrated airspace management, today announced its participation in the CAELUS project, a consortium led by AGS Airports that will develop and trial the UK’s first national distribution network using drones to transport essential medicines, blood, organs, and other medical supplies throughout Scotland.The AGS led ...
GEOZONA, a fast-growing Bulgarian company offering geospatial data solutions, precise positioning instruments, and geodetic measuring products is adding drone surveying equipment from Microdrones to their portfolio. The demand for drone LiDAR solutions in surveying, construction, urban planning, and other applications is growing rapidly and the Microdrones ...
SkyeBase, SPH Engineering and Pergam report a use case of methane measurements with a UAV in Belgium
SkyeBase, a total inspection service provider & inspection platform developer, addressed the request from Fluxys Belgium, a gas infrastructure group headquartered in Belgium, to monitor several zones of their high pressure gas pipeline and decompression installations for methane leaks. The method proved to be safe, accurate, as well as more labor and ...
Dragontail Systems Limited , a software company that optimizes the entire restaurant order and delivery process for global brands like Dominos, KFC and Pizza Hut, today announced the deployment of an autonomous drones control and optimization system to increase restaurants' delivery capabilities by flying meals to delivery drivers for pick-up in remote ...
SparkCognition, the world’s leading industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company, and SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition company, today announced a new collaboration to deploy AI-powered cybersecurity directly on drones, protecting them from zero-day attacks during flight. Equipped with SparkCognition’s DeepArmor® cybersecurity product, SkyGrid is ...
The rapid processing of large drone projects (e.g. tens of thousands of images) presents significant challenges to the drone mapping industry. This training session will discuss how to develop an optimal photogrammetric workflow, using the proper level of automation and hardware resources. Different real-world scenarios will be presented, including ...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is working with Leonardo to integrate the Leonardo Seaspray 7500E V2 radar into the centerline radar pod of its MQ-9B SeaGuardian remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS). The integration of this market-leading radar onto the SeaGuardian will enable persistent maritime ISR and is available to our interna...
With nearly 95,000 miles of domestic coastline, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey faces a daunting task. Under current FAA regulations, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators are required to keep their aircraft within visual line of sight, making coastline surveys time-consuming and arduous, having to tediously map 2-mile segments at a time, and then ...
The Indian Army has signed an approximately $20 million contract for undisclosed quantities of a high-altitude variant of ideaForge's SWITCH UAV which will be delivered over a period of 1 year. ideaForge has been awarded this contract after it emerged as the only vendor that qualified the operational requirements in an evaluation done in real-world ...
In a recent flight test, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) integrated a Lockheed Martin Legion Pod® onto an Avenger Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) demonstrating enhanced autonomous sensing capabilities for an unmanned aircraft. Taking less than three months for the Legion Pod integration to move from concept to flight, the ...
Volocopter and ADAC Luftrettung announced today that ADAC Luftrettung has reserved two VoloCity electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. After publishing the results of the world’s first feasibility study about piloted multicopter use in rescue services, ADAC Luftrettung has invested in a reservation for two VoloCitys to prepare for ...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced $5.8 million in research, education and training grants to universities that comprise FAA’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through ...
In light of the current global events, most of the humanthe workforce is confined to their homes and there is an urgent need for automated solutions for various business needs. Perimeter security and asset monitoring have traditionally been manual operations that are quite labor-intensive. Drones are fast emerging as a potential option to challenge the ...
Astra UTM is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Fintraffic Air Navigation Services to implement the initial UTM-centric services in Finland. Astra UTM will be delivering the SituationalAwareness and Briefing Facility systems for Fintraffic ANS’s Digital Business Platform which is a collaborative initiative under Traffic Management ...
Under contract from Army Futures Command DEVCOM C5ISR Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate, SSCI's Robotic Autonomous Platform for Tactical Operations and Reconnaissance (RAPTOR) autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was successfully flown for the U.S. Army's Project Convergence. The demonstration took place at Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ in late ...