Defense

An Oregon-based agency helps the U.S. Army battle ISIS drones. Portland firm Radio Hill Technologies inked a deal final week with the military’s Rapid Equipping Force to instantly ship an unnamed amount of its Block three Dronebuster hand-held counter-drone detection and jamming methods. The settlement will permit the military to …

Shield AI, a San Diego primarily based startup that develops expertise to save lots of lives with artificially clever programs, has raised $10.5M in a Series A spherical led by Andreesen Horowitz. The funding might be used to speed up the event and deployment of artificially clever merchandise that may …

Andy Teich, CEO of FLIR with Patrick of the Roswell Test Flight Crew Earlier this yr the Roswell Test Flight Crew interviewed CEO Andy Teich of FLIR (pronounced Fleer) on the Black Hornet and thermal imaging for drones. The Black Hornet is manufactured by Prox Dynamics a agency that FLIR …

A fixed-wing drone backed by DARPA soared into history books last month after achieving a world-duration flight record for drones in its class. Manufactured by Vanilla Aircraft, the diesel-fueled VA001 flew for nearly 56 uninterrupted hours at an altitude of 6,500 to 7,500 feet after being launched on Nov. 30 …

Photo courtesy of DARPA The U.S. military’s top think-tank is thinking of ways to map and track potentially harmful drones over major American cities. Last month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the launch of the Aerial Dragnet program “to provide persistent, wide-area surveillance of all [drones] operating below …

Navy Precision Optical Interferometer, Flagstaff, Arizona (Source: WikiCommons) A Canadian GPS company is partnering with the U.S. defense department to make sure the nation’s top astronomical installations always have a clear signal – and drones will provide that protection from the air. Calgary-based NovAtel, a global provider of OEM GPS …