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Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 |
Boeing and SAIC Award Honeywell Contract to Develop FCS Class I UAVs Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corp., functioning as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army's Future Combat System program, awarded a contract to Honeywell Defense & Space Electronic Systems to develop the Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (UAVS). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Army Officials cut FCS Program from 18 Systems to 14 U.S. Army officials have restructured the Future Combat Systems program to modernize the current force, while also providing the future force with advanced technology. |
National Defense March 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Demand on the Rise for Small Hovering Drones The market for small, hovering drones will continue to grow, possibly at the expense of larger unmanned aircraft. |
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Army Unmanned Air Vehicles Proliferate in the Battlefield The U.S. Army is committing increasing resources to developing sharply enhanced surveillance, communications and weapons for unmanned aerial vehicles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller |
A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications. |
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
The Navy's Fighter-Plane-Size UAV, the X-47B, Is Unveiled in California Yesterday, Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller |
Unmanned Vehicles Leave Boot Camp to Join the Regular Forces Unmanned vehicles are becoming plentiful on-and over-the modern battlefield, yet these automated systems until recently have been seen largely as military curiosities, not standard equipment. That's all about to change. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John Keller |
DOD to cut unmanned aerial vehicle procurement by one third over next decade The early years of the 21st century have seen explosive growth in U.S. Department of Defense purchases of unmanned aerial vehicles, but DOD is expected to cut UAV procurement by one-third over the next decade. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Army National Guard Unit Trains with FCS Micro Unmanned Vehicle Members of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard are the first warfighters to train with a gasoline-powered, micro air vehicle (gMAV) prior to their deployment to Iraq this month. |
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Struggles With Weight Of Future Combat Systems Only weeks before a crucial Pentagon review, officials overseeing the Army's Future Combat Systems continue to search for ways to lower the weight of new vehicle designs. A key requirement in FCS is that all vehicles be transportable by C-130 cargo aircraft. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 |
GoldenEye UAV Makes First Autonomous Transition Flights GoldenEye-50, which Aurora announced in 2003 and first flew in July 2004, exhibits helicopter-like hover and vertical takeoff and landing performance as well as fuel-efficient, wing-borne flight similar to a conventional airplane. |
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright |
If You Can't Afford a UAV, Rent One The U.S. military hires contractors to operate certain unmanned aerial vehicles in combat zones. Federal agencies might one day do the same here in the United States. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Army's Sky Warrior Alpha UAV Takes Out Insurgent Force During Battle in Iraq Warrior Alpha has become the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to fire missiles in combat. |
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Joint-Service Focus Shapes UAV Roadmap The Pentagon is working on a new roadmap for unmanned aerial vehicles to accommodate the rapid growth in UAV programs seen in the past several years. |
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright |
Army Weighs Future of Unmanned Helicopters The Army's recent cancellation of the Fire Scout remotely piloted helicopter has left some wondering whether there is a future for unmanned vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft in the service. |
Popular Mechanics October 2008 |
Remote-Control Missiles in a Box & More Could Quiet Iraq Critics Army foot soldiers in remote areas often rely on aircraft to deliver precision strikes to support their operations. |
National Defense June 2009 Robert H. Williams |
Tiny Drone Soars in Field Testing A small, battery operated unmanned aerial vehicle, called the Orbiter, was tested in a recent exercise and is now being marketed to the U.S. military. |
National Defense December 2003 Roxana Tiron |
Unmanned Aircraft Adapting To Army Future Force Needs The Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate is testing technologies and concepts that would allow helicopters to remotely control unmanned aerial vehicles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 |
Australian Military Deploys Mediaware for North West Shelf UAV Trial The Australian Department of Defence (ADF) awarded Mediaware a contract for its D-VEX digital video-exploitation system to be installed in it's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 |
EMT Selects Athena's Guidestar for Luna UAVs In its development of the Luna unmanned aerial vehicle, Germany's EMT sought an efficient inertial navigation system and global positioning system, for which it turned to Athena Technologies. |
National Defense February 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Army to Air Force: We Won't Give Up Our Surveillance Aircraft A second turf war over control of unmanned aerial vehicles is underway after sharp criticism from a senior Air Force general who said the Army is not efficiently deploying its fleet of medium-sized remotely piloted aircraft. |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2008 |
FCS Vehicles Move On The new family of vehicles is introducing many new capabilities to the Army, including electrical propulsion for combat vehicles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Unmanned vehicles: one of the hottest technologies going Unmanned air, ground, and underwater vehicles are finding important new niches in military and aerospace applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Dawn of the unmanned era While the U.S. military has used remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) since the Vietnam War with mixed results, recent combat action in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq has proven the utility of military unmanned systems. |
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
The Future May Belong to Unconventional Designs, Missions Unmanned aerial vehicles spying on enemies may be commonplace above today's battlefields, but there is a future generation of unconventional designs with added functions that, experts predict, almost certainly will displace current drones from their lonely, lofty perches. |
National Defense May 2004 Frank Colucci |
Infantry Troops Will Test Backpack-Size Drones The Army 25th Infantry Division will be testing later this year five unmanned air vehicle systems--small UAVs called "micro air vehicles." |
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Trying New Ways To Muster Innovation Under pressure to modernize and cut costs, the services in recent months have tried nontraditional forms of technology-seeking outreach. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 |
Northrop Grumman Selects Cubic Data Link Systems for U.S. Navy MQ-8B Fire Scout Each Fire Scout data link system comprises two components, air data terminals and ground data terminals, both of which assist in the Fire Scout's ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and targeting missions. |
National Defense May 2006 Grace Jean |
Army Operators Cope With Airspace Congestion Experienced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators now have to learn how to navigate in an increasingly crowded airspace. |
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron |
China Is Pursuing Unmanned Tactical Aircraft China has been quietly at work pursuing unmanned aircraft technologies both domestically and from foreign partners. It also is marketing its drones to friendly nations in Asia and Africa, according to a Chinese industry official. |
National Defense January 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Civilian Sector Could Lure Military Drone Pilots The Air Force has been suffering a shortage of unmanned aerial vehicle pilots and is looking to contractors operating government-owned systems as a way to address that problem. |
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons |
More Drones Become Helicopter Sidekicks Troops can't seem to get enough of the aerial reconnaissance gathered by manned and unmanned aircraft, which has proven invaluable to them in recent conflicts. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John Keller |
Navy looks into how to control next-generation autonomous unmanned aircraft U.S. Navy experts are redesigning the unmanned aerial vehicle control station of the future -- to accommodate new technologies and futuristic pilotless aircraft, and to reduce military manning levels by introducing more machine autonomy. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale |
Unmanned Systems Impact Battlefield and the Market Despite a lowing economy, the market for unmanned systems is expect grow significantly over the next five years with various market studies seeing a double-digit billion dollar market. |
Popular Mechanics October 8, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Unmanned Helicopter Hunts Drug Smugglers MQ-8B became the first unmanned helicopter to conduct actual operations on a navy ship. |
National Defense May 2005 Robert H. Williams |
Long-Endurance Aerial Killer Passes Test A 500-pound inert weapon has been dropped successfully from a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The test was conducted by Northrop Grumman Corporation, working in conjunction with Scaled Composites. |
National Defense January 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Army's Ground Combat Vehicle Stirs Confusion In Industry The Army plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next several years on the design of a new "infantry fighting vehicle." With new big-ticket military programs becoming increasingly scarce, this would normally qualify as great news for contractors. |
National Defense October 2011 Stew Magnuson |
FAA Sets Date for Small Unmanned Planes in U.S. Airspace Mid-2013 is the latest estimate for when the Federal Aviation Administration will allow operators of small unmanned aerial vehicles to fly in national airspace without having to go through a lengthy bureaucratic certification process, according to an agency official. |
National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Army Deploying Robotic 'Mule' To Troops in Afghanistan The Army is deploying an unmanned ground vehicle to troops in Afghanistan for a several-month long evaluation in combat operations. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller |
UAV Aircraft and Crowded Civil Air Space: Is it Safe Out There? It's only a matter of time before the aerial unmanned vehicle take their place in civilian air space. How are we going to fit all these planes? |
National Defense May 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Army Plans to Network Ground Robots and Unmanned Aircraft Army researchers are working on a program that would pair autonomous unmanned aircraft with ground robots. |
National Defense May 2009 Robert H. Williams |
Apache Pilots Receive Real-Time UAV Data Lockheed Martin's video from unmanned aerial systems for interoperability teaming (VUITT) is allowing Apache gunship pilots to receive in their cockpits streaming battlefield information from unmanned aerial vehicles. |
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Coast Guard Favors Fire Scout as New Pilotless Aircraft The Coast Guard intends to follow the lead of the Navy when it comes to fielding its long-delayed vertical take off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles. |
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Dept. Forecasts Greater Use of Robots in Ground Combat Officials who oversee robot technology development at the Defense Department say it is just the beginning. |
National Defense September 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Incompatible Technologies Weaken Utility of Aerial Spies The military services operate nearly 4,000 unmanned aircraft, most of which have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army alone is flying 1,200 drones in surveillance combat missions. |
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Budget Cuts Force Army Unmanned Aviation to Make Do With What It Has As defense budgets decline, the Army intends to stand pat with four basic unmanned aerial vehicle models, officials said at a recent conference. |
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Flying IEDs: Is the Threat Real? The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicle technology has brought up questions of how to best defend against them. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
DRS Technologies to provide lightweight electro-optical/infrared sensors for Army FCS UAVs The sensors will provide imagery during reconnaissance, surveillance, and target-acquisition (RSTA) missions and enhanced reconnaissance and security/early-warning capabilities, which will increase situational awareness. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller |
Military Aircraft Funding to Peak This Year, Decline Over Next Decade U.S. military aircraft spending will peak this year at $47 billion, and decline to $41 billion in 2017, predict analysts of the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association. |
National Defense October 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Civilian Market for Unmanned Aircraft Struggles to Take Flight As the demand for unmanned aerial vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan continues to increase, government agencies and contractors are clamoring to use aerial drones for domestic missions in U.S. national airspace. |