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Unmanned Aircraft Industry Set to Create Over 70,000 New American Jobs

Today, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) unveiled a new study, which finds that the unmanned aircraft industry is poised to create more than 70,000 new American jobs in the first three years following the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into U.S. national airspace system (NAS).

13 Mar 2013

MLB Concludes Project on Autonomous Delivery of Payload Using Vertical Take-Off UAV

MLB Company, a leader in low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions, services and products, today announced it has concluded a DARPA funded research project to demonstrate precision autonomous delivery and placement of payload using its vertical take-off and landing UAV, the V-Bat.

13 Mar 2013

NASA's Curiosity Rover Reveals Living Microbes in Ancient Mars

An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.

13 Mar 2013

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Drone to Acquire Data over Gulf and South Texas

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will conduct the first mission over the Gulf of Mexico with their unmanned aircraft from Monday, March 11, through Friday, March 15.

12 Mar 2013

Global UAV Payload Market Forecast to Increase at 4.4% CAGR to $6.1 Billion by 2022

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The Global UAV Payload Market 2012-2022 - Market Size and Drivers: Market Profile

11 Mar 2013

Wyle Awarded Contract to Improve Naval Air Systems’ Unmanned Air Systems

Wyle has been awarded a three-year $24 million contract to provide reliability improvement, testing, technology insertion and life-cycle analysis for unmanned air systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance project and programs for the Naval Air Systems Command.

11 Mar 2013

Vanguard Defense to Exhibit ShadowHawk UAS at Stiletto Maritime Demonstration Program

Vanguard Defense Industries is pleased to announce that the ShadowHawk® Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has been selected by the Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center to take part in the Stiletto Maritime Demonstration Program (SMDP).

8 Mar 2013

Gene Merewether Wins 2013 Luce Scholarship to Explore Use of Robots in Rescue Operations

Last year, while working as an EMT with the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad, Princeton senior Gene Merewether was among a group that responded to calls that a man was struggling in the waters of Lake Carnegie. With rescue boats and dive teams, the first responders scoured the murky lake to no avail before finally calling off the search after sundown. No man was ever found.

7 Mar 2013

Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Radar Data Exchange from Global Hawk to Joint STARS Aircraft

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently completed a successful exchange of radar data during a flight test involving the U.S. Air Force's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) and the RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 40 unmanned aircraft system. The demonstration was conducted Feb. 25.

7 Mar 2013

Neptec to Develop Vision Cameras for ExoMars Rover

Neptec Design Group (NDG), a Canadian leader in engineering products for space exploration, today announced that it has signed a contract with Astrium UK Limited for the design and build of navigation cameras for the ExoMars Rover.

6 Mar 2013