Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has won an $11.5 million contract to manufacture products for an unmanned aerial systems program. The company’s unmanned systems solutions division will process the “specialty product orders” for an unidentified customer at its facilities, Kratos said Wednesday. Primary end customers are national security-related agencies and the USS division focuses on [...]
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Lockheed Martin has won a $6.6 million contract extension from the U.S. Defense Department to continue helping operate two K-Max unmanned aircraft systems, AviationToday.com reported Monday. Work on the project will occur through September outside the continental U.S. and at the Naval Air Systems Command’s base in Patuxent River, Md., according to the report. The [...]
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Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $36.5 million contract by the U.S. Defense department to train U.S. Army soldiers to operate the Hunter unmanned air system at Fort Huachuca. The company said contract work will extend through the 2013 fiscal year. Rep. Ron Barber told the Sierra Vista Herald that Fort Huachuca has an excellent [...]
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A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle with the goal of giving government and commercial customers vision of crowded areas, Lockheed announced Monday. Procerus Technologies developed the five-pound vertical takeoff-and-landing drone for warfighters, first responders and other customers in the military, civil and commercial markets. Lockheed says the quad rotor, dual-sensor [...]
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Northrop Grumman Corp. announced Thursday its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar System has been delivered to the Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island in Eastern Virginia. G/ATOR is an interoperable system designed to detect and track threats such as cruise missiles and manned and unmanned aircraft. The system is the first ground-based multirole radar designed [...]
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. announced Wednesday its Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system has reached 10,000 successful automatic launch and recoveries with the Automatic Take Off and Landing System. The drone first deployed in 2008. Today there currently 50 in use. Frank Pace, Aircraft Systems Group GA-ASI president Frank Pace said that the Gray Eagle’s [...]
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The number of unmanned aerial systems using government-held spectrum has increased more than 40 times between 2002 and 2010, Defense Department Chief Information Officer Teri Takai said Friday. American Forces Press Service reports Takai made the remarks following the release of a report from a White House advisory council on how spectrum relates to economic [...]
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A trade association representing many unmanned vehicle systems manufacturers has unveiled a code of conduct for operating UAS. In a July 2 notice, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International said the code will serve as a checklist for both manufacturers and operators of UAS. Members and anyone that designs, tests, and operates UAS in [...]
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Northrop Grumman officially unveiled a maritime surveillance drone during a Thursday event at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif. The company said the MQ-4C Triton works independently and with other fleet resources. The aircraft will serve as the unmanned component of the Navy’s maritime patrol reconnaissance force on the open ocean and littoral regions. [...]
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A Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman joint venture will produce a radar electronic unit and a data link assembly for unmanned aerial vehicles for the Army. Longbow will also support other modifications for UAVs under a $6,986,376 contract modification, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. Work under the firm-fixed-price contract will occur in Orlando, Fla. and [...]
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