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Raytheon, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force Begin Small Diameter Bomb II Integration Activities on Aircraft

Raytheon Company, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force have begun Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) integration activities on the F-35, F/A-18E/F, and F-16 aircrafts.

15 Jul 2014

Kratos Receives $4.2 Million Contract Award to Supply Unmanned Aerial Drone System Aircraft

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Advanced Drones & Target Systems Division (KADTS) recently received a new $4.2 million contract award to provide unmanned aerial drone system aircraft and related spares to a National Security customer.

15 Jul 2014

Raytheon Completes Guided Flight Test of Seagriffin Missile with Dual-Mode Seeker

Raytheon Company successfully completed the latest guided flight test of its SeaGriffin™ missile.

15 Jul 2014

Raytheon Standard Missile-6 Destroys Supersonic High Altitude Target Drone

The USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) used a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-6 to destroy a supersonic high altitude target drone (AQM-37). The test moves the program one step closer to full operational capability.

15 Jul 2014

Drone Locates Victims in Natural Disasters Through Their Phones

SUMMER SERIES (2): During his semester project in Computer Science, Jonathan Cheseaux developed a system for locating a person via his or her mobile phone with a drone. This device could be used to find victims in natural disasters.

14 Jul 2014

Squadrons of Small Autonomous Robots Provide Appropriate Light for Photography

Lighting is crucial to the art of photography. But lights are cumbersome and time-consuming to set up, and outside the studio, it can be prohibitively difficult to position them where, ideally, they ought to go.

14 Jul 2014

SDG&E Granted FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate for Small UAS

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently granted San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) a Special Airworthiness Certificate for a small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), allowing the utility to research, test and train flight crews on the UAS in a sparsely populated airspace in Eastern San Diego County. SDG&E is the first utility in the nation to be granted FAA approval for this technology.

14 Jul 2014