General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) successfully performed the first flight tests of the next-generation flight computer for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The tests took place at GA-ASI’s El Mirage Flight Test Facility in El Mirage, Calif., as part of the U.S. Army-funded …
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SIGMADESIGN partners with Pendleton UAS to offer support ser…
SIGMADESIGN expands its services in partnership with the Pendleton Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Range. The Pendleton UAS Range (PUR) is the leading business-friendly testing and development range in the nation. PUR provides a fast, costeffective experience to facilitate successful and safe integration into the national airspace system (NAS). The range …
Read More »DroneDek partners with A2Z on drone network
Drone delivery is about much more than just the drone. Just ask DroneDek and A2Z Drone Delivery. The two companies, each of which focuses on a different piece of drone infrastructure, on Monday announced a technical integration partnership to combine DroneDek’s smart mailbox with A2Z’s second-generation Rapid Delivery System (RDS2) …
Read More »Dubai Police Drone in a Box
The first World Drone Prix took place in Dubai in 2016. Dubai was the first place in the world to showcase a drone taxi, implementing a fixed route back in 2017. Since then, Dubai has worked to utilize drones – and other cutting edge technology (CNN reports that Dubai police …
Read More »BRINC Ball for Communications in Emergencies
BRINC is best known for it’s LEMUR drone designed to de-escalate crises and improve outcomes for SWAT teams and police. LEMUR is both rugged and sophisticated, equipped with tools specific to the job. While the LEMUR’s glass cutter and “turtle mode” may make the best media, one of LEMUR’s most …
Read More »Can the Army Drone-Proof the New AbramsX Tank?
The recently-unveiled General Dynamics Land Systems AbramsX main battle tank is set to be loaded out with artificial intelligence-enabled target data processing, breakthrough command and control, manned-unmanned teaming capabilities, autonomous navigation and sensing, and course-correcting ammunition. Just unveiled at the Association of the U.S. Army Annual Symposium, the AbramsX demonstrator …
Read More »Overcoming Challenges Starting a Drone Program
Jeremy Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0 Powering Up Your Drone Program — Overcoming Implementation Challenges DroneNerds is a top drone reseller, offering a wide variety of services and support. They’ve helped enterprise clients from many different verticals starting a drone program– and they’ve published a new ebook based on a real …
Read More »Volatus Acquires Synergy Aviation – DRONELIFE
GordonJ86, CC BY-SA 4.0 Volatus Aerospace Acquires Synergy Aviation, Adds 500,000+ km Pipeline Right of Way Surveillance Continue reading below, or listen: Today, Volatus Aerospace announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Synergy Aviation, a move that will strengthen Volatus’ position in the oil and gas industry in …
Read More »Drone News of the Week October 14
Read or listen to all of the headlines in one place: excerpts from the DRONELIFE drone news of the week October 14. Click on the titles below for the full story. This week we were at the DJI AirWorks show in Las Vegas – find out what happened! Continue reading …
Read More »Kyrgyz Security Chief Flaunts Turkish Drone Connection – The…
Advertisement On October 12, the head of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security, Kamchybek Tashiev, posted a series of photographs on Facebook in which he posed, with an upraised fist, beside a Bayraktar Akıncı drone. In the brief caption, Tashiev wrote “‘Akıncı’ is ours!” and the date, with his thanks. …
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