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New technology that enables aerial vehicles to plan and verify missions could mean there is less need for military personnel to conduct dangerous surveillance operations in war zones.Developed for use in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs), the sophisticated autonomous computer framework - the first of its kind - allows one operator to control a number of vehicles from a safe position on the ground. It would also make surveillance missions significantly cheaper. The EPSRC (Engineering...
MCKINNEY, Texas, Feb. 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) airborne targeting system whose video imagery helps soldiers, intelligence analysts and commanders in the field make critical operating decisions recently exceeded 750,000 hours of flight. The Multi-Spectral Targeting System employs a full-motion video camera for long-range surveillance and high-altitude acquisition, tracking and laser designation from a manned or unmanned aircraft. In October 2008, C4ISR Journal...
Reporters are invited to a media day in April to observe the first environmental science mission of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.The Global Hawk Pacific 2010 mission, or GloPac, will involve a series of long-duration flights by the autonomously operated aircraft. The flights will travel over the Pacific Ocean south to the equator, west past Hawaii, and north into the Arctic. Ten instruments on the aircraft...
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded the Air Force Association's Jimmy Doolittle Educational Fellowship for contributions in the field of airborne reconnaissance. Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems President Lynn Dugle accepted the award at the Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition gala dinner Feb. 19 in Orlando, Fla. Presented by the Central Florida Chapter of the AFA, the fellowship this year "Salutes aerial...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- While their rate of growth may decline somewhat, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continue to be the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry, report Teal analysts in their latest integrated market analysis. Teal Group's 2010 market study estimates that UAV spending will more than double over the next decade from current worldwide UAV expenditures of $4.9 billion annually to $11.5 billion, totaling just over $80 billion in the next ten...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyle has signed an agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop formal flight and sensor operator training courses designed to enhance the proficiency and competence of Air Force Research Laboratory small unmanned aircraft systems flight operations with the goal of minimizing unmanned aircraft mishaps. Wyle and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio will develop and validate...
DGI 2010 - LONDON, January 26 /PRNewswire/ -- VisionMap Ltd. today announced the commercial release of a Reconnaissance and Mapping System for Tactical UAVs (MIST). At just 10kg, the MIST payload can be carried by small tactical UAVs, providing performance that equals full size reconnaissance pods weighing more than 120kg. MIST provides extremely high quality color stereoscopic imagery at oblique and nadir angles, as well as highly accurate, automated mapping products. MIST systems...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirStar parent company Mundus Group (Pink Sheets: MNDP) signs LOI to form UAV partnership with Legal Forensic expert, Litigation Animation, Inc. Mundus Group continues its ambitious plans to expand subsidiary AirStar's UAV presence with a strategic relationship agreement with Litigation Animation Inc. In the world of forensic legal animation, Litigation Animation, Inc. (LAI) stands out as an industry innovator with a record high municipal...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a Certificate of Authorization (COA) for the FH 500 UAV which is operated and built by Flint Hills Solutions, LLC. of Augusta, KS. AirStar is a major contributor to the FH 500 UAV production as the FH 500 is built on one of AirStar's gas helicopter platforms. The COA allows for safe operations at Crisis City, an emergency response training area in the NAS located in Kansas. Flint Hills...
Eagan, Minn., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently delivered two of seven upgraded P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan under the U.S. Government's Foreign Military Sales program. The most recent aircraft delivery occurred on Jan. 7 to the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla., for subsequent transfer to Pakistan. Lockheed Martin delivered the first plane in October 2009. Lockheed Martin is upgrading the P-3Cs' aircraft and...
