AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the successful maritime demonstration of Interoperability to Interchangeability (I2I) operations by the U.S. Navy and Royal Navy using AeroVironment’s Puma 3 AE small unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
Category Archives: Data Links & Communications
Elsight’s Multi-Network Broadband Connectivity Now Available to the Auterion Ecosystem
Auterion welcomes Elsight to the growing Auterion ecosystem. This state-of-the-art connectivity solution provides a high degree of reliability and safety, boosting chances of obtaining regulatory certification for commercial drone operations beyond visual line of sight. Continue reading
Elon Musk’s Starlink Helps Ukrainians Control Drones
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system is helping Ukrainian forces in the drone war as the nation fights back with technology to track down invading Russians. Continue reading
GA-ASI and US Army Test Advanced Datalinks and Avionics Enhancements for Gray Eagle ER
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. successfully tested advanced datalink capability as part of a U.S. Army-funded development effort to upgrade the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range Unmanned Aircraft System . Continue reading
FAA and AURA to Support UAS-to-FAA ATC Voice Communications
AURA Network Systems and the Federal Aviation Administration have entered into a four-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to help determine performance standards for Air Traffic Control (ATC) voice communications supporting unmanned aircraft systems within the national airspace system (NAS). Continue reading
Fenix Group to Deliver Portable C2 Tech to California Guard
Chantilly, Virginia-based Fenix Group Inc. was recently awarded a contract via Nokia Corporation and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to deliver citizen broadband radio service (CBRS) private cellular backpacks to the California National Guard to provide resilient communications during disaster response. It will solve the command and control (C2) problem in disaster and austere environments, and get drones flying on a common network. Continue reading
GA-ASI Avengers Autonomously Send Fused Air Threat Data to Command Center
On November 18, 2021, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) used two company-owned Avenger Unmanned Aircraft Systems, each equipped with a Lockheed Martin Legion Pod, to send long-range air threat data captured passively and fused by an advanced sensor algorithm to a Command Center. Continue reading
uAvionix Successfully Tests SkyLink C-Band Command & Control (C2) Radio
uAvionix announced the successful completion of the first series of flights with its newly developed SkyLink Control & Non-Payload Communications (CNPC) C-band radio, intended to meet the needs of safety-critical & BVLOS missions as well as operators and manufacturers with airframe certification in mind. Continue reading