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Unmanned

Rugged UAV antenna launch from Hemisphere GNSS at AUVSI Xponential - News

May 03, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Hemisphere GNSS

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Positioning technology company Hemisphere GNSS (Scottsdale, Arizona) introduced its rugged multi-GNSS, multifrequency four-helix HA32 antenna for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the AUVSI Xponential show.

Unmanned

Unmanned-craft equipment companies adopt Presagis UAV simulator, as seen at AUVSI Xponential - News

May 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Presagis

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER and MONTREAL. Simulation software and solutions company Presagis has delivered its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) simulator platform, which it calls UAV CRAFT, to Laflamme Aero (Coleraine, Quebec, Canada), the company leading the LX300 unmanned helicopter project.

Comms

USAF: SBIRS GEO Flight-4 missile-warning satellite sends first pictures back to Earth - News

May 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colorado. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) reports that its fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite has transmitted its first images back to Earth.

Unmanned

Augmented reality plus UAS tech for defense, public safety, automotive shown at Xponential 2018 - News

May 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Edgybees

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Augmented-reality (AR) platform developer Edgybees -- based in Beit Herut, Israel -- is showcasing its new life-saving drone technology at the AUVSI Xponential show in Denver this week.

Unmanned

Companies partner at Xponential to intro VTOL UAVs with new engines - News

May 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems A-techsyn

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. A-techsyn -- a manufacturer of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), target-acquisition drones, and communications/autopilot systems -- is introducing the first VTOL equipped with an engine from 3W-International's partner company Sky Power at Xponential 2018. The A-techsyn VTOL will be shown as part of the 3W-International booth.

Unmanned

Optical gas-imaging camera core for UASs shown at Xponential show - News

May 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Sierra-Olympic Technologies

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Sierra-Olympic Technologies (Hood River, Oregon), a maker of infrared (IR) and thermal imaging technologies and components, is premiering its new Ventus OGI, an optical gas imaging camera core, at the unmanned systems event.

Comms

Boosting GPS/GNSS for UAVs, robotics, autonomous vehicles - News

May 02, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Swift Navigation

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Swift Navigation (San ??Francisco, California) -- a ??company that develops and builds ??GPS [global positioning system] and GNSS [global navigation satellite system] ??technology -- is highlighting several of its offerings in the world of unmanned and autonomous systems at the AUVSI Xponential event.

Unmanned

Extending the range of the UAS beyond visual line-of-sight - News

May 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems PrecisionHawk

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology provider PrecisionHawk (Raleigh, North Carolina) debuted what it says is the first beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)-enabled, multirotor drone platform at the AUVSI Xponential event.

Unmanned

Small quadrotor UAS gets high-res IR sensor upgrade from maker Lockheed Martin - News

May 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Lockheed Martin announced at the AUVSI/Xponential show that it has upgraded its Indago 3 -- a small quadrotor unmanned aerial system (UAS) -- with high-resolution infrared sensors capable of day or night operations.

Cyber

U.S. Navy signs $90 million enterprise services support contract with Engility - News

May 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Engility Holdings

CHANTILLY, Va. Systems engineering company Engility Holdings has won a five-year, $90 million task order to provide software engineering and production support to the U.S. Navy's tactical afloat and submarine local area networks.

Radar/EW

U.S. Air Force orders 770+ all-digital radar warning receivers from Raytheon - News

May 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Raytheon will supply the U.S. Air Force (USAF) with at least 779 units of its AN/ALR-69A(V) all-digital radar warning receiver, under the terms of a recently signed indefinite delivery/indefinite contract.

Unmanned

Global UAV market to reach $51.85 billion by 2025, analysts say - News

May 01, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems

NEW YORK. The global market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to grow to $51.85 billion by 2025, up from $11.45 billion in 2016, according to a study by The Insight Partners titled "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Market to 2025 -- Global Analysis and Forecasts by Component by Type and Application."

Unmanned

Next stage of NASA's UAV safety research: Avionics-driven detect and avoid - News

April 30, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Sagetech Corporation

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Avionics company Sagetech Corporation reports that it is set to provide its MXS transponder to NASA as the government agency conducts detect-and-avoid (DAA) research in the area of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Unmanned

Integrating UASs into the national airspace: Fast data links and fail-safes are key - News

April 30, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Collins Aerospace

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Rockwell Collins, as part of two weeks of critical testing recently for the NASA Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) program, served as the UAS Service Supplier (USS) for the safe management of a UAS flying beyond visual line-of-sight.

Unmanned

Smart-mapping payload enables UAS to deliver faster ID, intelligence data - News

April 30, 2018

Lisa Daigle - Assistant Managing Editor, Military Embedded Systems Boeing

XPONENTIAL 2018--DENVER. Insitu -- a subsidiary of The Boeing Company and Overwatch Imaging -- has successfully integrated a customized TK-5 Firewatch smart tactical mapping payload on Insitu?s ScanEagle unmanned aerial system (UAS). The Firewatch-equipped ScanEagle will operate with real-time fire line maps and wide-area, high-resolution imagery intelligence for wildfire management, disaster recovery, and other UAS applications.