The developer of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that is orders of magnitude smaller than other radars was awarded a $24 million contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command in Natick, Mass., to build a “lightweight, ultra-wideband” SAR for unmanned aircraft systems for completion in 2017. Continue reading
Category Archives: Payloads
Israel Air Force Testing Hyper-Spectral Camera Technology
The Israel Air Force (IAF) is currently examining hyper-spectral camera technology, which could allow unmanned aircraft systems to collect a wide variety of information, some invisible to the human eye. Continue reading
University Engineers Develop Cheap Onboard Tracking System for UAS
With Department of Defense funding, Ashraf Qadir and colleagues at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks have built their own image-processing machine, which is small and light enough to be carried by a small UAS. Continue reading
UAS Present Data Management Challenge
The world is developing an insatiable demand for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and keeping up with it will present both a fiscal and data management challenge. That is one of the observations made by military leaders recently at the sixth annual UAS Action Summit in Grand Forks. Continue reading
Sky-Futures Adds Gatewing X-100 to UAS Managed Service Portfolio
Sky-Futures has acquired the Gatewing X-100 as the new UAS to its managed service fleet, and will now also be providing mapping and surveying services. Continue reading
Bluesky Launches UAS Aerial Survey Service in UK
UK aerial survey company Bluesky has launched a fast response aerial survey service using state of the art unmanned aircraft.
Raytheon Gets $85M US Army Contract to Test Griffin Missiles for UAS
The Raytheon Co. Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Arizona was awarded a $85 million U.S. Air Force contract to build 22 all-up Griffin missiles and 43 telemetry rounds for Griffin tests.
GA-ASI and UK Partners Demonstrate New Open Payload Architecture
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. , along with SELEX Galileo (a Finmeccanica company) and Cobham Aviation Services (Cobham), demonstrated a new open payload architecture during the Sovereign Payload Capability Demonstration (SPCD) held at GA-ASI’s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facilities in Palmdale, California. Continue reading