To build its new U.S. headquarters, leading laser scanning company RIEGL enlisted major construction engineering company DPR. Both firms profited from working together.
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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…
Heavy Lifting: ZM Interactive’s Dragon Series
In December, ZM Interactive announced the latest in what might be thought of as its Swiss Army knife drone. The…
Up Close with NOAA “Uncrewed”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s use of sUAS for science missions has increased more than tenfold since 2012.
Elios 2: Assessing Danger in a Cage
Swiss-based Flyability bills its Elios 2 as “collision-tolerant.” That’s a perhaps-understated evaluation for this 15.7 inch drone-in-a-cage, since its “indoor”…
Up Close With UTM at Wing
Wing’s UTM division leads in technology and regulatory collaborations for an equitable UAS-manned aircraft ecosystem.
Black Swift Technologies’ STL (Safe-to-Land) AI Solution
Coupling “failure prediction” with a vision system can be used to avoid ground obstacles during a forced landing. Now Black…
Propeller’s UAS Perspective
Rory San Miguel is the CEO of Propeller, a 3D cloud-based visualization and analytics solution, who launched some certitudes about…