Control Stations & Remote Video Terminals
AME Unmanned Air Systems announced the receipt of a follow-on contract for the Joint Interoperable Target Control System (JITCS). This contract enables the continued development of standard Target Control System interfaces for the Common Interface Target Control System (CITCS). The contract was received on June 20, 2011, and has a
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AAR Corp. a provider of aircraft parts and maintenance, announced that it has won a strategic five-year contract for providing lightweight, multi-purpose shelters (LMS). The value of the contract will be up to $14 million. The durable LMS shelters will be used by the army to house and operate command
Control Stations & Remote Video Terminals
Designers of control stations for unmanned vehicles primarily use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded products, but there has never been a common architecture developed for all UAS ground control stations. However, U.S. military planners are pushing toward a common control segment architecture that requires all UAS control stations to work with
Control Stations & Remote Video Terminals
Air Force officials have released the criteria for basing of the regular Air Force MQ-1/9 remote split operations ground control stations. The basing criteria, announced on June 22, were approved by the secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force and include factors such as mission requirements, training
Applications & Testing & Experience
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, and GE Aviation announced that the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System has completed a flight demonstration using the GE Flight Management System (FMS), a four-dimensional trajectory FMS certified for use in manned commercial aircraft. The demonstration
Applications & Testing & Experience
Elbit Systems announced that it has completed a series of successful tests of its Skylark I LE mini/man-pack UAS using the Dominator hardware to control and operate the UAS. During the tests, the Skylark was operated by a new cutting edge lightweight Forward Ground Control Station (FGCS) which utilizes
Control Stations & Remote Video Terminals
ChandlerMay’s UAS Division recently delivered the 300th Ground Control Station (GCS) subsystem to AAI Corporation. The division builds major subsystems for the Army’s One System Ground Control Station (OSGCS), which flies several Unmanned Air Systems, including AAI’s Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System. The One System and its
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Harris Corporation and Cubic Corporation have conducted technology demonstrations that significantly enhance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) situational awareness by distributing UAS video and targeting data across wideband ground tactical communication networks. The Harris/Cubic solution integrates Cubic's Common Data Link transceiver technology for receiving video from UAS
Control Stations & Remote Video Terminals
As unmanned aircraft play an increasingly important role in defence strategies and tactics, the demands on the electronic control systems in these vehicles include extreme portability, ruggedness and safety. Every component in these systems carries with it the weight of mission success or failure - all the way down to
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Plans by the U.S. military to consolidate its numbers of ground control stations for unmanned aircraft systems may be moving forward with the announcement Tuesday of a contract to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to integrate a Universal Ground Control Station. The U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone
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At the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space convention outside Washington, Northrop and the Navy unveiled new details about the X-47B and their schedule to get it flying off a carrier. Rule number one: it’s not “remotely piloted.” Put the phrase “remotely piloted” out of your mind, says
Control Stations & Remote Video Terminals
The U.S. Army is testing prototypes of a new high-tech synchronization engine at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., which can combine video feeds and sensor data from multiple Unmanned Aircraft Systems on a single Ground Control Station. "We are opening a gateway to information that we have never