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Hoeven Announces FAA BVLOS Waivers and Outlines Sky Range Pr…

Senator John Hoeven held a meeting with leaders from the Grand Forks community, the University of North Dakota (UND), and the area’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS) industry, where he: Announced that that, at his urging, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): Has approved beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) waivers for UAS flights in the region utilizing enhanced …

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Highlander Partners Announces the Acquisition of Black Sage …

Highlander Partners, L.P. (“Highlander”), a leading private investment firm, on January 31st announced the acquisition of Black Sage Technologies (“Black Sage” or “the Company”) from Acorn Growth Companies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boise, ID, Black Sage is an industry-leading multi-mission platform provider of Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (“C-UAS” …

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Pierce Aerospace Announces Partnership with Skye Air Mobilit…

Pierce Aerospace announced a partnership with Skye Air Mobility at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV. The partnership brings Pierce Aerospace’s Flight Portal ID UAS Technologies as an integrated Remote ID solution with Skye Air Mobility’s drone delivery platforms and Skye UTM (Skye Air’s proprietary Unmanned Traffic Management …

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UAS Cluster Initiative Announces New Program Manager

The Unmanned Aerial Systems Cluster Initiative (UASCI) is pleased to announce Emily Bell has joined our team as Program Manager. In this role, she will oversee program development and implementation to support organizational and ecosystem growth. Ms. Bell brings to the role nearly two decades of program and organizational management …

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GA-ASI Announces Strategic Partnership with Bharat Forge

In a major move to boost manufacturing in India, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and Bharat Forge Limited, India have announced a partnership to manufacture main landing gear components, subassemblies, and assemblies of remotely piloted aircraft. Part of the Kalyani Group, Bharat Forge is the largest repository of metallurgical know-how, …

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FAA announces new Executive Director of UAS Integration Offi…

By David H. Boulter, FAA Associate Administrator (A) for Aviation Safety | December 27, 2022 On December 15th, the FAA announced the new Executive Director of the UAS Integration Office, Jeffrey Vincent, who will be joining the AVS Management Team in January. Jeffrey has extensive experience in working across the agency …

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uAvionix Announces new Multi-Frequency C2 Solutions for UAS …

uAvionix announced an updated product line offering for Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Command and Control (C2).  The SkyLine™ C2 management platform ecosystem is headlined by muLTElink™, an industry first combination of LTE technology with broadcast radio frequency (RF) radios which permit dynamic selection of the best …

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Highlander Partners Announces the Acquisition of Liteye Syst…

Partners, L.P. (“Highlander”), a leading private investment firm, recently announced the acquisition of Liteye Systems, Inc. (“Liteye” or “the Company”). Liteye is a multi-mission defense company that develops, integrates, and manufactures Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (“C-UAS” or “Counter-UAS”) designed to neutralize hostile drone threats. The rise of drone activity has …

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Aurora Flight Sciences Announces New Fixed-Wing eVTOL Small …

Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, has released its latest small UAS product, the Skiron Expeditionary sUAS, or SKIRON-X. This Group 2 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) combines the simple operation of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) configuration with the longer range and endurance of a fixed-wing design. SKIRON-X …

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