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National Defense November 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Look, It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's an Avian Robot To conduct surveillance missions while on patrol in Afghanistan, soldiers and marines hand-launch toy model-sized airplanes called the Raven. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss |
Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 |
Steadicopter Builds Autonomous UAV By combining a patented computer program and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) with an existing minicopter, an Israeli company has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that could be the next homeland-security defense tool. |
National Defense January 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Defense Industry Developing Systems to Defeat Enemy Drones Experts and company executives envision a future where new technology employed by the military or government agencies could spot rogue or hostile drones, identify them and even commandeer or stop them mid-air. |
National Defense March 2006 Stew Magnuson |
City Streets Pose Problems for Unmanned Aircraft The dream of a fully autonomous rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle capable of flying through urban canyons, hovering above city streets or perching on building ledges as it gathers intelligence is one step closer to reality. |
National Defense August 2008 Sara Peck |
Civilian Drones Have Yet to Pass Weather Test Researchers at the Army's White Sands Missile Range in Arizona are developing weather forecasting software to help unmanned aerial vehicles fly in a variety of climates. |
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Erik Sofge |
Britain's Police Drone: Could It Stop Next Terror Plot? Authorities in the U.K. are testing a tiny helicopter with a camera. Is constant urban surveillance on the horizon? Or is Britain ready to foil the next threat even faster? |
National Defense February 2009 Matthew Rusling |
U.S. Special Operations Command Weighs Deployment of Armed Drones The Boeing A160T Hummingbird, originally a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, is undergoing a series of tests at a Boeing Co. facility |
National Defense November 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Biology, Neuroscience Aid Weapon Development at Air Force Research Lab Lab researchers here increasingly are studying and mimicking Mother Nature's products. The hope is that the research will one day lead to advances including tiny aircraft that fly and act like birds and insects and bio-inspired sensors that can out-snuff Fido's nose. |
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy's Unmanned Combat Aircraft Flying Under Cloud of Uncertainty The Navy expects to invest a growing share of its aviation research dollars in unmanned aircraft as it seeks to extend the reach and endurance of its carrier-based air wings. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Rafal Zbikowski |
Fly like a Fly The common housefly executes exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toaster. Several groups have succeeded in building electronic sensors that mimic the fly's vision and other flight control apparatus. |
National Defense February 2010 Jean & Wright |
Engineers Develop Single-Wing Twirling Drone Lockheed Martin Corp. engineers have unveiled a tiny aerial drone that spins like a falling maple seed. |
National Defense July 2012 Dan Parsons |
Teaming Pilots With Drones Hampered By Technology The Army recently found that the most cost effective solution to replace its scout helicopters was a mix of traditional rotary wing platforms and unmanned aerial vehicles flying alongside to cover more ground in a single mission. |
Popular Mechanics March 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force The next-generation aircraft envisioned by the Air Force, and modeled in the illustration opposite, would be able to dodge enemy radar, swap payloads for multiple kinds of missions and use sophisticated onboard sensors to prevent collisions with other UAVs and manned airplanes. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 J.R. Wilson |
The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems. |
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? |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 J.R. Wilson |
Manned and Unmanned Aircraft to Share Controlled and Commercial Airspace Governments, organizations, and industries throughout the world are trying to find ways of developing electronic and electro-optical technologies to enable unmanned aerial vehicles to operate together safely. |
National Defense May 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Worries About Mid-Air Collisions Keep Civilian Drones Grounded The agency that controls the domestic airspace, the Federal Aviation Administration, said unmanned aircraft are not yet ready to conduct realistic missions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller |
DARPA NAV Program Seeks to Make Insect-like Surveillance UAVs a Reality U.S. military researchers are kicking off a project to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle called the nano air vehicle, which is roughly the size of a dragonfly, to perform covert surveillance and reconnaissance missions in important and dangerous areas. |
Wired June 2005 Noah Shachtman |
Attack of the Drones Flying bots rule the skies in combat zones around the globe. Now the battle is on between the joystick jockeys and the fighter jocks. |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Dan Radovsky |
Drones: More Than a Buzzword for Boeing Boeing's gamble in unmanned aircraft may pay off ... one day. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Robert Wood |
Fly, Robot Fly Whether as rescue robot or flying spy, this micro-aerial vehicle could change how we look at the common housefly |
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. |
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons |
Air Force F-35s, Drones May Square Off in Budget Battle Unmanned aerial vehicles have become a potent portion of the U.S. Air Force inventory and an indispensable weapon in the global war on terror. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2011 Philip E. Ross |
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots. |
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Military, Industry Racing to Create Sense-and-Avoid Systems Congress has set a 2015 deadline for the Federal Aviation Administration to phase drones into civil airspace, but one of the technologies needed to safely operate unmanned aircraft won't be ready until at least a year later. |
National Defense July 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Collision Avoidance Technology for Unmanned Aircraft Years Away Sense-and-avoid technology is a conundrum for unmanned aerial vehicle engineers and researchers. |
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade. |
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Surveillance Drone Operators Find Ways to Outsmart Enemy A burgeoning fleet of unmanned aircraft is among the Army's key weapons against Iraq's insurgency. But the technology alone is not enough to gain an edge over this enemy, experts say. |
National Defense August 2006 Grace Jean |
Unmanned Surveillance Balloon To Hit the Skies Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. has developed an unmanned surveillance aircraft that looks like a balloon but flies like a kite. |
National Defense May 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Regulatory, Technological Hurdles Stand In Way of Domestic Drone Mandate If Congress gets its way, by Sept. 30, 2015, unmanned aerial vehicles will be seamlessly flying in national airspace alongside passenger jets, military aircraft and single-prop general aviation Pipers. |
National Defense September 2012 Eric Beidel |
Tiny Musician Robots Could Benefit Soldiers University of Pennsylvania researchers have been attracting attention for their work with nano-quadrotor robots. |
National Defense October 2009 Stew Magnuson |
FAA Still Working on Rules for Domestic Pilotless Aircraft Use The Federal Aviation Administration fears that a drones will collide with commercial aircraft. |
National Defense May 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Industry Rallies Behind Push To Promote Drone Safety When a DJI Phantom drone crashed into the lawn of the White House in February, it highlighted what some fear may be a trend of unmanned aerial vehicle-related accidents. |
Popular Mechanics February 3, 2009 Erik Sofge |
Killer Lasers Work, but Are They the Best Defense Against UAVs? Last week, Boeing announced that its Laser Avenger system had shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a one-kilowatt laser. Are energy weapons becoming preferable to an old-fashioned bullet or bomb? |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 Deschenes & Sanderson |
Next-Generation UAVs Leverage FPGA Computing Technology The military's effective use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in recent conflicts has highlighted their successes, which are vigorously driving UAV technology developments. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Engineered by Nature: UAV Designs Modeled After Biological Sources Engineers at myriad organizations -- universities, aeronautical labs, research facilities, and defense contractors -- are studying and emulating biological phenomena in the design and development of micro- and nanoscale unmanned aerial vehicles. |
National Defense May 2011 Grace V. Jean |
Marine Special Operators Rely Heavily on Hand-Launched Drones The newest component of U.S. Special Operations Command has quickly embraced drone technology, particularly the small hand-launched aircraft that weigh less than 20 pounds and fly at speeds under 100 knots. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 J.R. Wilson |
UAVs Poised to Take the Next Step Into Combat The future of continued U.S. air superiority will involve a large contingent of armed UAVs and a new generation of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), flying missions that manned attack aircraft previously flew, often in joint missions under the control of fighter-bomber pilots. |
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Fear of Crashes Keeping Drones out of U.S. Airspace The senior director of unmanned aircraft systems and control technologies at Rockwell Collins, Vos and other industry representatives are advocating a push for the development of automation technologies that will make it possible for piloted aircraft and drones to fly safely in the same airspace. |
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. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Bets on Black (Ops) Boeing came late to the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) party, but you've got to give these guys credit -- now that they're here, they aim to make a splash. |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? It seems everywhere you look these days, people are talking about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale |
Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Erik Sofge |
Robot Chopper: The Navy's Smartest UAV The Fire Scout is arguably the smartest unmanned aerial vehicle ever built. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics March 19, 2009 Kim Grzybala |
Have Our Flying Car Dreams Come True? Yesterday, Terrafugia, Inc. announced its spot in flying car history -- a proof-of-concept, road-ready aircraft's successful test flight. Could this be the start of a new era? |
Defense Update March 2007 |
Smart Weapons for UAVs The Origins of Weaponized UAVs... Deployment of Weaponized UAVs... Gravity Dropped Munitions for UAVs... etc. |