MilitaryLong-Range Coast Guard Drone to Undergo Tech Demo The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a draft solicitation related to a forthcoming technology demonstration of long-range, ultra-endurance unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for potential use finding and tracking illegal drug and migrant…
MilitaryTriton on Track for 2018 Early Operational Capability The U.S. Navy’s new unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for broad area maritime surveillance will achieve early operational capability later this year on schedule at a forward operating base in Guam. The early…
MilitaryBoeing Shows off MQ-25 Stingray Offering Boeing showed off its MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based unmanned aircraft system offering to reporters at its facility Thursday and revealed it will use the Rolls-Royce AE 3007N engine. This is the same engine on…
MilitaryUS Military's Vertical Lift Plans Necessitate More Advanced Drones Aside from developing a revolutionary new family of rotorcraft, the U.S. Army’s ongoing Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program includes building a next-generation unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that will fly in formation with…
MilitaryIntel's Show Drones Have Military Brass Worried During the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, a flock of 1,200 commercial drones made by Intel formed a giant snowboarder then swarmed in sync to form various other…
MilitaryAir Force Aims to Overwhelm Opposition with Expendable Drones Pentagon scientists are trying to beat the cost curve the military likely will encounter in future wars by designing low-cost, expendable unmanned aircraft and munitions that can overwhelm enemy defenses without breaking…
UnmannedMost Drone Flights Will Be Autonomous by 2022: Study The commercial unmanned aircraft services (UAS) market is experiencing a steady economic expansion due to disruptive innovations such as autonomous platforms, transitional drones and hybrid propulsion. Frost & Sullivan expects that by…
CommercialCrop Cameras: Using Drones to Autonomously Monitor Agriculture Engineering firm Black Swift Technologies is engaged in a pathfinder mission with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to develop enhanced multi-angular remote-sensing techniques using small drones. These autonomous platforms can more effectively…
CommercialAspen Avionics, Sensurion Aerospace Collaborate on Drone Tech Aspen Avionics and Sensurion Aerospace have formed a co-development partnership to bring certified avionics to the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and unmanned air-taxi marketplace. The companies’ focus is on FAA-certified autopilots, communications,…
ATM ModernizationA Single European Sky Will Include Drones SESAR JU, the group tasked by the European Commission and Eurocontrol with guiding Europe toward integrated free, open skies throughout the continent over the coming years, has released a subset of its…