UAS doesn’t only mean “aircraft” systems, Sec’y Murray tells government. Industry and academic leaders leverage the region’s brain-trust and a UMd research/incubator to go farther.
Category Business, Leader Features · Tags Bonnie Green, David Dunaway, Dominick Murray, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, NAVAIR, Patuxent Partnership, Pax partnership, STEM, The Patuxent Partnership, TPP, UAS, VADM David Dunaway
Posted by Java Joe on April 1, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Pentagon’s five-year projections for procurement spending on its 63 major weapons programs look more positive than last year’s forecast.
Posted by Java Joe on January 30, 2014 · Leave a Comment
A DoD acquisition executive responded this week to a negative report on the Navy’s Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, CBP, China, Coherent Technical Services, COLA, CTSi, deer crashes, DoD, drone, F-35 joint strike fighter, Inspector General, JSF, Lockheed Martin, Operation Homeport, P-8 Poseidon, P-8A, Predator, UAS
Posted by Publisher on January 21, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Amid continued security concerns at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, the US has two warships and transport aircraft ready to evacuate US officials and athletes.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags BAMS-D, E-2 Hawkeye, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator, Phillipines, Russia, search and rescue, Sochi, UAS, UAV, Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics security warningss
Posted by Publisher on December 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Formal collaborative agreements among between Virginia Tech, Rutgers and the University of Maryland System could retain Southern Maryland sites as potential testing arenas for commercializing unmanned aviation systems.
Civilian use of drones is drawing interest from many organizations, including the news business.
Category Biz & Tech, Leader Features, Lex Park News · Tags civil use of drones, drone journalism, Drone Journalism Lab, drones, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, journalism, Matt Waite, miliary law, SMHEC, Southern Maryland Higher Education Center, St. Mary's County Airport, UAS, University of Nebraska, University System of Maryland, Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Posted by Publisher on August 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Public discussions between US and China defense secretaries mostly cordial but tensions showed during cyber questioning from the press.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags actuator, Army, Bradley Manning, Dennis McGinn, Egypt, Northrup Grumman, South Korea, Sue Raino, UAS, US and China, WikiLeaks
Posted by Publisher on July 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As commercial operations get certification to begin working with drones in vacant airspace a Pax River team develops the inter-communications technology for real-time data sharing across multiple platforms.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Aberdeen Proving Ground, China, cybersecurity, energy efficiency, FAA, Great Barrier Reef, JLENS, JSF testing at Edwards, NGA maps, UAS, USS Guardian, Utah Test and Training Range
Posted by Publisher on July 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Republican leadership struggles to keep spending bill on track with NSA surveillance funds intact and without restrictions regarding actions in Egypt or Syria.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Chuck Hagel, court martial, Deer Train CO, drones, Edward Snowden, Egypt, epcot center, Google, layoffs, Maryland unemployment, MiGs, MQ-8 Fire Scout, NSA surveillance, sequestration unemployment, Syria, Syrian rebels, TSA Inc, UAS, unmanned aerial system', Virginia unemployment
Experts say that courting the FAA with courtesy and competency will lead to more open flights for unmanned aircraft.