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Southern Company System granted FAA Waiver for BVLOS operati…

Southern Company, in partnership with Skydio, announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a conditions-based waiver enabling remote-based, autonomous beyond line of sight (BVLOS) dock operations across its system. The waiver is one of the first of its kind and will integrate autonomous drone systems in support of remote-based …

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Northrop Grumman’s FAAD C2 System enables short range air de…

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) system was successfully fielded in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, creating air and missile defense interoperability amongst the Baltic states, NATO and U.S. forces. FAAD C2 provides command and control for their collective short range air defense …

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Leidos to develop uncrewed aerial resupply system for USMC

Leidos (NYSE:LDOS), a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, was recently awarded a new prime contract to develop an uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) that can autonomously resupply forward-deployed ground forces. The firm-fixed-price, multiple-award contract has a period of performance of 18 months to build a single prototype for the Marine Corps. “Leidos …

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Sagetech and Elsight integrate new system to BVLOS solutions

Sagetech Avionics, an aerospace technology company that advances safer skies through innovative Detect and Avoid (DAA) Systems, has announced successful integration of its ACAS X-based DAA system with the Elsight Halo drone connectivity platform for aircraft seeking type certification/airworthiness with BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight) CONOPS (concept operations). Collaborating …

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Plowman Craven launches Vogel Freedom UAV survey system for …

Plowman Craven has launched Vogel Freedom, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based survey system that brings a host of game-changing benefits for rail infrastructure surveying, including efficiency, safety and sustainability whilst maintaining Vogel’s class-leading Band 1 survey accuracy. An industry milestone, the launch marks the first survey-grade solution that can survey …

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Zipline Unveils New Autonomous System for Home Delivery

Zipline unveiled its new platform that provides quiet, fast and precise autonomous delivery directly to homes in cities and suburbs. The company’s next generation home delivery platform is practically silent (designed to sound like wind rustling leaves), and is expected to deliver up to 7 times as fast as traditional automobile …

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Gadkari unveils advanced drone air traffic management system

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on February 8th unveiled Skye UTM, touted as the most cutting-edge unmanned traffic management system in the world, which is capable of handling 4,000 flights per hour and 96,000 flights per day. Skye UTM is a Cloud-based aerial traffic management system …

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U.S. Army Awards Epirus $66.1M for Leonidas Directed System

Epirus, a high-growth technology company, announced today a $66.1 million contract award from the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) in support of the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High-Power Microwave Program. As part of the Other Transaction Authority, Epirus collaborates with the RCCTO to rapidly deliver several prototype systems of …

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XTEND awarded $20M contract for multi-drone operating system

XTEND – the developer of XOS, a human-guided autonomous operating system that is revolutionizing ‘human to machine’ interaction, has been awarded a $20M contract by Israel Ministry of Defense, for the development and supply of a first-of-its-kind multi-drone operating system. The new joint project with MAFAT and the Israeli Ministry of Directorate of …

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