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This video demonstrates the automated tablet flight capabilities of the SwiftSight Unmanned Aircraft System. This system, developed by Dynetics, represents ease of use and construction for law enforcement officers, military personnel, emergency responders and hobbyists alike. Source: YouTube
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, California, is being awarded a $9,381,403 firm-fixed-price contract for the delivery order for seven Fixed Ground Control Stations. The location of the performance is Poway, California, and is expected to be completed by December 31, 2012. ESC/HIBK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio,
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Presagis, a provider of commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) modeling, simulation, and embedded graphics solutions, announced that it has signed a Corporate License Agreement with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. The Agreement will enable a closer and more strategic business arrangement between Presagis and GA-ASI, while governing all future business transactions. “Presagis
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For the last two years, one of the most popular electronic gadgets in Afghanistan was not the iPad or satellite phone, but Rover 5, otherwise known as the fifth generation ROVER (Remote Operations Video Enhanced Receiver). This is small (14cm/5.5 inch wide) handheld video device provides ground troops
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded four task order contracts worth more than $17 million to develop and integrate enhanced operational capabilities for the US Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS). Under the task orders, Ball Aerospace will spend 18 months integrating data streams from enhanced sensors
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The US Navy completed a demonstration for its unmanned aircraft Common Control System (CCS) Oct. 26 at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California. Led by the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons (PEO(U&W)), CCS is a software-only solution with instantiations
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The US Air Force and US Army agreed on new safety procedures to help prevent another collision between army UAS and Air Force planes. The Army and Air Force have long argued about such restrictions (about where, and when, army UAS could fly), but the August 15 collision between an
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The PD-100 Black Hornet PRS is designed as a soldier’s tool, this necessitates that ease of use always be kept in mind throughout the development. For the PD-100 ease of use is multi faceted and includes technical solutions and operational issues, but most importantly it is linked to training
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AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Aurora Flight Sciences have announced that the organizations have formed a strategic alliance to integrate AAI's Universal Ground Control Station and other ground control technologies with Aurora's Orion UAS and Centaur Optionally Piloted Aircraft . This pairing supports medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) missions
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A computer virus has infected the Ground Control Stations of US Predator and Reaper UAS, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech
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Raytheon Company has developed and patented a low-cost radar technology that will, for the first time, provide both military and civil air traffic controllers with the capability to avoid airborne hazards around unmanned aircraft systems, which costs the Pentagon millions in damaged aircraft. Under the Ground Based Sense and Avoid
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Textron Systems announced that the company’s operating unit, AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems has completed the US Army’s 2011 Manned Unmanned System Integration Capability (MUSIC) exercise. Providing command and control of AAI’s Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS), as well as General Atomics’ Gray Eagle and Northrop Grumman’