Lockheed Martin’s legendary Skunk Works® was unorthodox from its start. Conceived in 1943, a lean team tasked with completing America’s…
Abe Peck
Inside Ingenuity With AeroVironment, Part I: Designing It
April 19th saw what some have christened “a second Wright Brothers moment”—namely, the successful first powered controlled flight by an…
Base Protection Plus…
Easy Aerial and Travis Air Force Base pioneer automated drone-based military perimeter security. Located on the southwestern edge of California’s…
Sunflower Labs’ Autonomous Pivot
A high-end residential security provider expands into autonomous business surveillance. Early in 2020, Sunflower Labs’ launch at the Consumer Electronics…
Checking in on UAS Innovation
Lockheed Martin has fully embraced innovation across UAS and manned-unmanned systems and software.
Linn, Wisconsin P.D.: Small Town, Big UAS Use
Linn, Wisconsin, is home to two thousand-plus people. Yet over time, the Town of Linn Police Department has come to…
Air Force Engages Black Swift Technologies to Help Predict UAS System Failures
Despite their low cost and high mission capability, dozens of RPA/UAS have crashed due to pilot error and mechanical and/or…
Sensing Collaboration
To build its new U.S. headquarters, leading laser scanning company RIEGL enlisted major construction engineering company DPR. Both firms profited from working together.
Airbus’ Aliaca drone chosen for French Navy
The French Navy will acquire 22 unmanned Aliaca drones to enhance its long-endurance capability. SURVEY Copter, a mini UAS…
NOAA and USM Partner on Uncrewed Systems
NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the University of Southern Mississippi have signed a 10-year agreement to improve…
Loon Balloon Deflated
In a decision with multiple implications, Alphabet, the parent company of Google known for innovative technologies, has canceled Loon, its…
TRIDAR® Solution Stresses Integration, Affordability, Service
“If you have a lemon, make lemonade.” That vintage saying applies to Triad Drones in the age of COVID. Since…
Report from Latvia: Remote Drone Delivery Emerges
In December, Latvia received a gift. More precisely, seniors welcomed the country’s first-ever drone gift delivery when a parcel was…
Teledyne Acquires FLIR for $8 Billion
Teledyne Technologies has acquired FLIR Systems in a cash-stock transaction valued at approximately $8 billion. Teledyne specializes in instrumentation, digital…
Tronics High-performance Accelerometer Released
TDK Corporation announced the release of Tronics AXO315, a miniature high performance 1-axis closed-loop MEMS accelerometer with a 24-bit digital…
HAPS/HALE: Seeking Solar’s Sweet Spot
A “signal” event recently energized high altitude pseudo-satellites. Technology and business issues remain.
HAPSMobile and APB Raise Battery Energy Density
This past September, HAPSMobile®, a SoftBank subsidiary established in 2017, flew AeroVironment’s huge yet elegant Sunglider® solar vehicle into the…
