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2008 Editorial Calendar

January:

• Review of DARPA’s Urban Challenge: What technology proved itself in the competition?
• Using remotely operated underwater vehicles for exploration
• Update on unmanned aerial system swarming technology
• Update on the 2007 Australian Challenge “Outback Rescue” sponsored by AUVSI

Bonus Distribution:

• AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Asia-Pacific 2008, Singapore
• Singapore Airshow 2008, Singapore

February:

• Update on the U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems
• Unmanned vehicle developments in Asia
• Tunneling robots for mine rescues, ordnance disposal

Bonus Distribution:

• AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Program Review 2008, Washington, DC, USA

March:

• Weather-monitoring unmanned systems
• U.S. federal budget request overview
• The public’s comfort with automation and how that relates to unmanned systems

Bonus Distribution:

• AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Program Review 2008, Washington, DC, USA – SHOW ISSUE

April:

• AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Program Review 2008 report
• Battery update: A look at the critical unmanned systems power market
• Report on AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Asia-Pacific 2008

May:

• Report on the Singapore Air Show 2008
• Aerial vehicles based on biological designs
• Sense-and-avoid systems for ground, underwater and surface vehicles
• European unmanned aerial system regulatory overview

Bonus Distribution:

• Eurosatory 2008, Paris, France

June:

• Update on U.S. Federal Aviation Administration regulations for flying unmanned aircraft in public airspace
• British unmanned systems update
• Throwbots: Small, tossable reconnaissance robots

Bonus Distribution:

• AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America 2008, San Diego, CA, USA – SHOW ISSUE
• Farnborough International Airshow 2008, Farnborough, United Kingdom

July:

• Control systems for unmanned vehicles
• “Green” unmanned vehicles: Using unmanned systems for conservation research
• AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America 2008 report
• Eurosatory 2008 report

August:

• Sensors: Smaller, better, cheaper?
• Farnborough International Air Show report
• Ground vehicles for security, police use

September:

• AUVSI student competition roundup
• Unmanned vehicles and international agriculture
• Artificial Intelligence update

October:

• Unmanned cargo delivery systems
• Unmanned vehicles for “dirty jobs”
• Unmanned aerial system pilot shortage: Who’s training?

November:

• Longevity: The longest-operating unmanned systems
• Financial trends in the unmanned systems industry: What’s selling, who’s buying
• New weapons for unmanned vehicles

December:

• Lessons learned from another year of using unmanned systems in combat
• U.S. election results: What they could mean to the unmanned systems industry
• 2008 year-end roundup of top innovations
• 2009 Forecast: New business, products, contracts, trends