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Small commercial UAS to survey BP pipelines in Alaska
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the very first commercial Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operation over land to BP and UAS manufacturer AeroVironment. Together, the companies plan to use AeroVironment’s Puma All Environment (AE) UAS for aerial surveys in Alaska.
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RFEL advanced fusion Driver Vision Enhancement for military usage on display at Eurosatory
Newport, Isle of Wight, UK. RFEL, in collaboration with GuS, KTK Kommunikationstechnik, and Rheinmetall Defence, will be showcasing an advanced fused Driver Vision Enhancement (fDVE) solution at the Eurosatory conference in Paris, France, June 16-20.
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DARPA miniaturized IMU to be developed by Northrop Grumman
WOODLAND HILLS, CA. Northrop Grumman engineers will be developing a miniaturized navigation grade inertial system for use by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Chip-Scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigator (C-SCAN) program. It is part of U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center contract.
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Modular, open-architecture radar system to be demonstrated by Raytheon for Navy
TEWKSBURY, MA. Officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) tasked Raytheon to further develop an Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR). The company's EASR concept uses existing Radar Modular Assembly (RMA) architecture that has been proven on Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) platforms. EASR will be able to meet the performance needs of various candidate ship classes for ship situational awareness, self-defense, air traffic control, and weather monitoring.
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Schiebel UAS helicopter demonstrated for the Brazilian Navy
VIENNA. Schiebel recently demonstrated the CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned helicopter’s capabilities to the Brazilian Navy from the Brazilian Amazonas Class Ship APA near San Pedro, Brazil.
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Diamond Microwave announces new compact SSPA for defense, aerospace applications
TAMPA, FL. Diamond Microwave announced at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Tampa, FL the new DM‑SC50‑01, a 2-6 GHz GaN-based Solid-State Power Amplifier (SSPA) that can be operated in either pulsed or Continuous Wave (CW) mode.
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Seventh C4ISR contract to support the U.S. Coast Guard awarded to Lockheed Martin
MOORESTOWN, NJ. Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has awarded an additional $69 million contract to Lockheed Martin to support the U.S. Coast Guard to address at-sea threats and enforce maritime authority.
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Fourth Boeing P-8I maritime patrol aircraft delivered to India
SEATTLE. Boeing has fulfilled half of its contract to deliver eight P-8I maritime patrol aircrafts to India. The fourth aircraft departed from Boeing Field in Seattle and arrived at Naval Air Station Rajali, where it joined three other P-8Is.
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Rockwell Collins showcases new FMC-4000 mission computers at ILA Berlin Air Show
BERLIN. Rockwell Collins launched its FMC-4000 series of flight and mission computers at the ILA Berlin Air Show, from May 20-25. The series is available for fighter, tanker, trainer, transport, rotary-wing, and unmanned systems aircraft.
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Bluefin-21 UUV continues its search for missing Malaysian airlines flight
The Bluefin-21 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) from Bluefin Robotics has been the only vessel of its kind aiding in the search for missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370 over the past several weeks. This particular U.S. Navy-owned Bluefin-21 has been equipped with sonar, and yet despite valiant efforts has not yet found any sign of the [...]
Amanda Harvey, Assistant Editor
Amanda Harvey, Assistant Editor
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John McHale, Editorial Director
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