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El Segundo (SPX) May 11, 2004Raytheon Company has successfully integrated and demonstrated its SeaVue maritime surveillance radar and AAS-52 Multi-spectral Targeting System (MTS-A) aboard a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Mariner unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a derivative of the Generals Atomics Predator B UAV. Navy Demos Future Warfare Strategy 
Bethpage NY (SPX) May 07, 2004The US Navy and industry partner Northrop Grumman have advanced, with a recent exercise, the service's warfighting goal of interconnecting sensors, manned and unmanned aircraft, ships and offensive weapon platforms in real time to locate and strike targets. |
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Lockheed Martin and General Atomics Demo Integrated Maritime Surveillance
WASHINGTON (SPX) May 07, 2004 Lockheed Martin and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) successfully demonstrated their low-cost, low-risk, highly capable solution for the U.S. Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program at a recent flight exercise in San Diego. Boeing Acquires UAV Developer Frontier Systems Inc. 
Chicago (SPX) May 05, 2004Boeing said Tuesday that it has acquired Frontier Systems Inc., developer of the A-160 Hummingbird and Maverick unmanned aerial vehicles. Frontier's platforms and technologies add to Boeing's portfolio and capabilities in unmanned systems that include the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System X-45, ScanEagle and other concepts under development. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. J-UCAS X-45A Destroys Target 
Arlington (SPX) May 04, 2004Target confirmation, arm and cleared to release. With those three commands from its human operator, an X-45A technology demonstrator for the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) program made aviation history by releasing an inert (non-explosive) Global Positioning System-guided Small Smart Bomb and hitting a ground target Sunday at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Range, China Lake, Calif. This marks the first time that an unmanned aircraft has released a GPS-guided weapon. Athena To Fly OAV Platform Concepts Autonomously 
Warrenton VA - Apr 27, 2004Athena Technologies, Inc., has announced autonomous flight operations of several organic air vehicle concepts controlled by the company's miniaturized flight control system. Sensing Systems Provides Digital Media Handling Software For Navy UAVs
San Mateo - Apr 20, 2004Sensing Systems LLC (Sensing) has received a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II award to pursue work under SBIR topic N02-159, Digital Motion Imagery (MI) Manipulation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Sensing will receive $750,000 of investment funding over two years to foster development of its digital media handling software product, which can be used to replace antiquated analog media technology and modernize U.S. Navy UAV control stations. Cubic Wins Navy UAV Services and Support Contract 
San Diego - Apr 20, 2004The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded the defense segment of Cubic Corp. a five year, $5 million contract to supply instructional services and maintenance support for the Navy's Pioneer Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) program. X-45A UACV Demonstrator Drops Inert Bomb
Edwards AFB - Apr 13, 2004The Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) program conducted a weapons separation test of an inert bomb from a X-45A technology demonstrator, marking the first time that an unmanned aircraft has released a weapon from an internal bay, and the first time that a weapon has been released from a high-speed, high-performance, unmanned aircraft with a stealthy shape. |
GoldenEye-100 UAV Successfully Completes Initial Flight Test Program
Manassas VA - Apr 08, 2004Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation has successfully completed its initial flight test program for the company's GoldenEye-100 unmanned aerial vehicle. Flight testing began in September 2003 and all of the GoldenEye-100's flights, including the first flight last fall, have been in fully autonomous control modes. Smiths Introduces Innovative Autonomous Refuelling To The UK 
London - Apr 01, 2004Smiths Aerospace has recently filed a patent in the UK for a new autonomous aerial refuelling technology. Smiths is advancing the technology on the 767 Tanker Transport by developing autonomous aerial refuelling capabilities using the hose and drogue technique for UAVs (unmanned air vehicles) and UCAVs (unmanned combat air vehicles). Pyramid Vision Debuts Integrated Security Sensor Visualization 
Las Vegas - Apr 01, 2004Pyramid Vision, the performance leader in intelligent video surveillance, announced that it would debut Hawk, an integrated and scaleable security sensor management platform at the 2004 International Security Conference this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Northrop Grumman Bids For UK Watchkeeper Battlefield Program 
London - Mar 18, 2004Northrop Grumman ISS International Inc., a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, today submitted its proposal for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence's Watchkeeper battlefield imagery and intelligence program. US To Deploy Unmanned Drones In Skies Over Mexican Border 
Washington (AFP) - Mar 17, 2004The United States plans to deploy unmanned planes, or drones, into the skies over the border between Arizona and Mexico to guard against potential terrorist activities and clamp down on illegal border crossings, a top US security official said. GuideStar Flight Control Selected for Finmeccanica's Sky-X UAV 
Warrenton - Mar 17, 2004Athena Technologies announced today the selection of its GuideStar control unit by Alenia Aeronautica for its Sky-X UAV. Alenia Aeronautica S.P.A, a Finmeccanica company, of Turin, Italy, has selected the GuideStar GS311 as the Flight Control System (FCS) for its Sky-X UAV. Northrop Grumman's Load-Bearing Antennas Offer
El Segundo - Mar 16, 2004Northrop Grumman Corporation will help the U.S. Air Force enhance the surveillance capabilities of aerial vehicles by embedding antennas in the primary load-bearing structures of composite aircraft wings. |
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