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Kratos Awarded $6.5 Million Multiple Task Orders Under TMO Aerial Target Support Prime Contract

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Defense & Rocket Support Services (DRSS) Division's Madison Research Corporation (MRC) business unit has been awarded multiple task orders with a combined value of over $6.5 million under its TMO Aerial Target Support Prime Contract.

28 Oct 2014

RMIT UAS Research Team Seeks Patent for Aircraft Turbulence Mitigation System

Researchers from RMIT’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research Team have lodged a provisional patent on an innovative system that mimics the way feathers help birds detect disturbances in the air.

28 Oct 2014

Oceanscience Acquired by Teledyne Subsidiary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced today that a subsidiary has acquired the business and substantially all of the assets of The Oceanscience Group Ltd. Based in Carlsbad, California, Oceanscience designs and manufactures marine sensor platforms and unmanned surface vehicles. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

25 Oct 2014

Law School Forum Discusses Implications of Using Drones in the Middle East

On the day when Niagara Falls’ 107th Airlift Wing stopped flying cargo planes and transitioned to a mission of controlling military drones, a Law School forum wrestled with the implications of using these unmanned instruments of war in the Middle East.

25 Oct 2014

Northrop Grumman Completes Precision Sloped Landing Tests with MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Aerial System

Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed precision sloped landing tests Aug. 27 with the MQ-8C Fire Scout at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, in preparation for at-sea testing.

25 Oct 2014

Investigators Study Influence of Environmental Factors on Infectious Diseases Using Drones

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can collect detailed information in real time at relatively low cost for ecological research. In a new Opinion piece published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Parasitology, experts demonstrate that drones can be used to understand how environmental factors influence the spread of infectious diseases.

24 Oct 2014

Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Satellite Tackles Threat of Space Debris

While space debris was the uncontrolled adversary in the award-winning space thriller film "Gravity," space debris, also known as "space junk," is an ongoing real-life concern for teams managing satellites orbiting Earth, including NOAA-NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, or Suomi NPP, satellite. It is not unusual for satellites that have the capability of maneuvering to be repositioned to avoid debris or to maintain the proper orbit.

24 Oct 2014

pieDrive Interactive Operating Concept for Future Vehicles Advances Automated Driving

An increasing number of assistance systems are being designed to facilitate driving. Things are heading towards automated driving. What role does the person behind the steering wheel play? Scientists at TU Darmstadt have presented “pieDrive”, an interactive operating concept for vehicles of the future.

24 Oct 2014

NASA Global Hawk Mission Scores Bullseye in Gathering Information on Hurricane Edouard

NASA's Hurricane Severe Storms Sentinel or HS3 mission flew the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft on two missions between Sept. 11 and 15 into Hurricane Edouard and scored a bullseye by gathering information in the eye of the strengthening storm. Scientists saw how upper-level wind shear was affecting Edouard on the HS3's Global Hawk flight of the 2014 campaign over Sept. 11 and 12, and saw the hurricane strengthen during the sixth flight on Sept. 15 and 16.

24 Oct 2014

New Report Provides Detailed Analysis of Top 20 UAV / UAS Companies

Although increasingly competitive, the global UAV market is currently highly consolidated with a few leading companies dominating global sales. Primarily this is a result of US dominance of the market over the past decade.

21 Oct 2014