Dan Gettinger has been co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College. For 7 years,…
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Vigilant Aerospace’s Detect-And-Avoid System Used in Successful Pandemic Response Drone Test Flight
Oklahoma-based Vigilant Aerospace Systems recently demonstrated how its FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid airspace management system could one day be used to enable…
Hybrid Drones Boosted Using AI
Hybrid drones that can convert from vertical take off and landing (VTOL) to fixed-wing flight are becoming increasingly popular for…
Mission-Critical Mapping
Just-Released Quantix Recon Leverages Survey Assets for the Military Sphere Attention toward technology often favors the big, shiny and super-equipped….
Opportunities to Innovate
The Department of Defense is using industry consortia and a contracting mechanism called Other Transaction Authority to attract innovators who…
Getting It Right for Gimballed ISR
Selecting GNSS and Inertial for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Inertial technology coupled with GPS/GNSS plays a critical role in the fast-growing…
Quantum-Systems Offers New Camera Imaging System for its Mapping UAV
Quantum-Systems, a developer of eVTOL fixed-wing drones, is offering professional customers the latest payload option for its small fixed-wing Trinity…
ISR Sensors: Smaller Size, Greater Capability
Drones carrying smaller sensors with more sophisticated capabilities are performing a variety of military and civil ISR missions. Deploying drones…
UAVOS Successfully Tests Cargo Delivery Unmanned Helicopter
UAVOS recently completed a test of its cargo delivery UHV-170 unmanned helicopter, successfully delivering critical humanitarian aid. The UVH-170 flew…
T3: It’s More than Just a Cool Movie
A Guide to How Technology Transfer and Transition Links Federal Technologies to the Marketplace. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,…
VTOL Takes Off
Next-generation VTOL concepts are rising to meet the future needs of a modern-day battlefield. Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) concepts…
Octopus ISR Systems Introduces New Surveillance Camera System
Octopus ISR Systems recently released the Epsilon 140LC Airborne Surveillance Camera System. The airborne electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) surveillance system features advanced…
Tactical Touch Point
Next gen scout drones ready for field and flight test. Infantry soldiers, including paratroopers, are preparing to field test four…
FCC Unanimously Approves Ligado Plan; Questions, Opposition Remain
The five members of the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to approve a request by Ligado Networks to use satellite…
Unmanned Plans: Where the DOD is Going with Drones
This article is all about what the services are doing with their drone programs. I don’t have the space to…
“Project Success”: LiDAR Overcomes Mapping Obstacles in the Ozarks
Civil engineer/surveyor firm Crafton Tull, equipment provider Navigation Electronics, Inc. (NEI) and systems integrator Microdrones collaborated to solve a literal cliff-hanger….
Wingcopter Partners with UPS Flight Forward on Delivery Drones
Wingcopter and UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF) are collaborating to develop package delivery drones. The companies will work toward earning regulatory…
