The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Program Executive Office Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC), Expeditionary Missions Program Office (PMS 408) has issued a competitive
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
FAA announces grants for detect and avoid drone operational research
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced USD4.4 million in drone research, education and training grants to seven universities. Research will focus on three areas:
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“Urban drone drug delivery services will require U-space/UTM”- Milan San Raffaele Hospital research
Flying Forward consortium partners, San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and EuroUSC Italia, alongside University Giustino Fortunato in Benevento, have published a research paper ‘Design of a Service for Hospital Internal Transport
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Wisk and Skyports publish joint CONOPS for autonomous UAM vertiport operations
Wisk Aero and Skyports have jointly released a Concept of Operations (ConOps) which identifies how autonomous eVTOL aircraft and operators will integrate with vertiports, including interactions
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MySkaut, Giancarlo Zema partner to develop “vertiport/vertistop secure drone nesting structures”
Formenton Security Group and XtraMedium Communications, through their MySkaut venture company, has partnered with the Giancarlo Zema Design Group to combine security guard intervention and
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India’s DRDO details specifications for national C-UAS system to industry
Indian news services report that the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has outlined to Indian defence companies the detailed requirements for a national counter-UAS capability defined
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Volatus announces construction of permanent eVTOL vertiport in Wisconsin
Volatus Infrastructure, LLC, in partnership with Wittman Regional Airport and Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation, has announced it will build the “first permanent electric vertical
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Second CORUS-XUAM workshop identifies challenges in defining detailed UTM and vertiport roles in UAM
The CORUS-XUAM programme plans to release its final report (edition five) on how U-space services and solutions could support integrated Urban Air Mobility (UAM) flight
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Detect and Avoid technology wins NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year 2021 award
NASA has announced this week that the technology licensed to Vigilant Aerospace and used in the company’s FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid and airspace management product has won
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CS Group-Thales consortium “wins French military’s EUR 350 million PARADE contract”
According to IntelligenceOnline, the CS Group-Thales consortium has won the competition to supply the French defence ministry with C-UAS equipment as part of the ministry’s
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