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SDS International (SDS) has been awarded a contract to further enhance its PC-based MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper training systems used by the USAF 711th Human Performance Integration Directorate, Brooks City-Base, Texas, to evaluate Airman Human Performance (HP) issues.
Read MoreMist Mobility Integrated Systems Technology (MMIST) has selected Rockwell Collins to provide its Athena 411 flight control and navigation system for the CQ-10A SnowGoose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), with flight tests planned for late summer.
Read MoreThe French defence procurement agency (DGA) has awarded DCNS and Thales the second phase of the D2AD study to design and demonstrate an automatic takeoff, landing, and deck landing system for rotary-wing UAVs.
Read MoreSince 2001, U.S. spending on unmanned systems has steadily increased — in the next budget request, the Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking an increase of almost $870 million, more than 18.4 percent over the $4.53 billion spent so far this year.
Read MoreThe Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team developing the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) III program has entered the Critical Design Review (CDR) stage on-schedule, an extensive phase that precedes production of the next-generation satellite system.
Read MoreBoeing Satellite Systems in El Segundo, California, has won a $13.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 2 of the Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed (FAST) satellite power generation and propulsion program.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force is terminating for convenience the Transformational Satellite Communications System Mission Operations System contracts...
Read MoreA 15-month risk reduction study on the Advanced UAV project has allowed EADS to pin a production price tag of about 90 million to 100 million euros ($125.8 million to $139.7 million) per system, confirming the total 2.8 billion euro budget for 15 systems for France, Germany, and Spain, said Nicolas Chamussy, senior vice president for mission air systems.
Read MoreProtonex Technology Corporation (LSE: AIM: PTX and PTXU) has received an additional $500,000 contract award from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for advanced development of high power fuel cell systems for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Read MoreAccording to a John Keller report in Military & Aerospace Electronics online site, U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications, according to identifiable unmanned vehicle line items in the fiscal 2010 U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) budget, which was released in May and sent to Congress for consideration.
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