Senate Panel Approves Counter Drone Bill But Johnson Cautions On...
A bill that would give legal authorities to the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice to counter threats posed by malicious drones in limited instances domestically was approved by a Senate...
View ArticleBoeing HorizonX Invests In Drone Delivery Firm Matternet
Boeing’s [BA] year-old ventures unit on Tuesday announced its fourth investment in autonomous aircraft systems, leading a funding round in Matternet, a startup firm that has developed unmanned aircraft...
View ArticleSchiebel Demos Camcopter UAV Trials for Belgian Navy
Schiebel has successfully completed trials for the Camcopter S-100 anmanned aircraft system (UAS) for the Belgian Navy, the company said. The tests demonstrated search and rescue as well as maritime...
View ArticleDoD Counter UAS Efforts Creating Framework For Homeland Applications, FAA...
Work done by the Defense Department to thwart potential threats posed by remotely piloted aircraft to its facilities in the U.S. is laying the “foundation” for the Departments of Homeland Security and...
View ArticleArmy Taps Raytheon Drone-Radar Combo For Urgent Counter-UAS Capability
The U.S. Army will use Raytheon’s [RTN] Coyote unmanned aircraft system and the KRFS radar, as a near-term counter-unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capability to protect deployed units from enemy drones....
View ArticleBoeing Working With SparkCognition On Unmanned Traffic Management Solutions
Boeing [BA] on Tuesday said it is working with a small company it invested in last year to provide traffic management solutions for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Boeing said it and SparkCognition...
View ArticleWhite House Gives Support To Senate Counter Drone Bill
The White House late Tuesday issued a statement of support for a bill circulating in the Senate that would give the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security limited authorities to detect, track and...
View ArticleSierra Nevada, Israel Aerospace Industries Developing New UAS For U.S. Market
Sierra Nevada Corp. announced Tuesday it has signed an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to develop a new tactical Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for...
View ArticleNielsen Heads To North Dakota For UAS Briefings
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday will be in North Dakota to discuss border operations and receive briefings on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and the development of...
View ArticleGeneral Atomics To Quadruple Footprint At U.S. Drone Research Park
Drone maker General Atomics will nearly quadruple its footprint in the Grand Forks, N.D., industrial park dedicated to unmanned aerial systems research and development. GA Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI)...
View ArticleL3 Acquires UAS Company With Technology For Fixed-Wing And Vertical Flight
L3 Technologies [LLL] in late June acquired Latitude Engineering, a small company that has developed technology to enable unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to take off and land vertically and also fly as...
View ArticleMQ-9 Helping California National Guard Fight Fires In Combat Zone-Like...
Amidst heavy smoke, “fire tornadoes,” and combat-zone like conditions, the California Army National Guard (CANG) is relying on the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle to relay critical video and...
View ArticleCoast Guard Cancels Tech Demo Of Long-Range UAS
The Coast Guard on Tuesday said it is canceling plans for to conduct a land-based technology demonstration of long-range unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) because the funding for the project has been...
View ArticleDHS S&T Nominee Plugs Counter UAS Bill
Legislation in the Senate permitting the use of technology to defeat potential threats from drones is necessary to enable the testing and evaluation of these technologies in operationally relevant...
View ArticleLockheed Martin Makes Second Investment In Ocean Aero
Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Tuesday said it has made a second investment in the unmanned maritime systems company Ocean Aero, a multi-million dollar investment aimed at helping the California-based...
View ArticleUPDATED: Sikorsky Nears First Flight Of Black Hawk Robotic Co-Pilot Retrofit Kit
Sikorsky is nearing completion of the first UH-60 outfitted with an aftermarket robotic copilot kit that can help plan and execute missions in concert with a pilot either in the cockpit or remotely...
View ArticleMQ-4C Triton Crashes In California
One of two MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) crashed yesterday on a Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC), Calif., base runway following an inflight mechanical issue and landing gear failure. A...
View ArticleCounter Drone Measure Included In Bipartisan House, Senate FAA Agreement
House and Senate conferees last Saturday evening reached agreement on a bipartisan, long-term reauthorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that includes legislation allowing the...
View ArticleL3 Acquires UK Firm That Makes Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Adding to its growing franchise of unmanned maritime system capabilities, L3 Technologies [LLL] on Monday said it has acquired ASV Global, a United Kingdom-based developer and manufacturer of unmanned...
View ArticleBell Moving to Scale Up Autonomous Delivery Drones for U.S. Military
Bell [TXT] is developing the scalability and flight control software of its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) family of vehicles to meet U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army...
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