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AeroVironment’s Newly Launched RQ-11B Raven Small UAS Receives U.S. Contract

AeroVironment recently declared that the United States Army has offered the company with a $15,813,406 firm fixed-price authorization to perform on May 22, 2012.

4 Jun 2012

WSGI Announces Successful Completion of Argus One UAV Payload Testing

World Surveillance Group recently declared that it has successfully accomplished payload testing in Nevada for tethered flights of the Argus One UAV in compliance with the mission parameters set by its sponsor.

2 Jun 2012

Northrop Grumman Develops Polar Hawk UAS

Northrop Grumman and L-3 MAS declared their intent to join forces on a variant of the Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed by Northrop Grumman to help Canada to better handle the continuous surveillance of its Arctic territories.

1 Jun 2012

Italian Reaper UAVs Set to Become Weapons Platforms

A weapons supply contract for Reaper UAVs between the US government and the Italian Air Force is expected to be announced in June.

1 Jun 2012

Iraqi Navy to Use Hood Technology’s UAV Imaging Systems

The UAV imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the southern coast of the country.

31 May 2012

Market Report on UAV by Visiongain

Visiongain’s analysis represents that the UAV market will attain a value of $7.26 B in 2012, following the consistent demand for UAVs for a wide range of military operations essential for combat and humanitarian missions.

28 May 2012

Orbital Achieves Supply Contract from AAI for Delivering FlexDI Engines to Deploy in SUAS

Orbital declares that it has achieved contract for delivery of heavy fuel engines for deployment in Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) of AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (AAI).

28 May 2012

NATO Forces to Gain Security by Procuring New UAV

Global Hawk Block 40(RQ-4) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has been procured along with its four small vehicles by 13 NATO nations.

28 May 2012

AeroVironment to Utilize Small UAS for Re-establishing Post-Disaster Federal Communications

AeroVironment recently declared the deployment of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). With this UAS, aerial communication potential for the Federal Communications Commission’s Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture (DACA) Notice of Inquiry (NOI) proceeding will be demonstrated.

28 May 2012

Researchers Use UAS to Generate 3-D Models Of Monuments

A 3D imaging system has been designed by researchers at the University of Granada that can scan 3D models of historical buildings based on data obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It is the first 3D imaging system to integrate UAV functions, virtual representation of models and image-based 3D modeling technologies to generate a realistic 3D object modeling from images.

25 May 2012