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ZM Interactive selects Iris Automation as detect and avoid provider for its UAS

January 31, 2020
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ZM Interactive (ZMI) has selected Iris Automation as the detect and avoid (DAA) provider for its drones, which will allow ZMI customers to conduct beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations.

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DARPA’s OFFSET program deploys swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles during third field experiment

January 30, 2020
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DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to demonstrate a raid in an urban area during the agency's third field experiment.

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AFRL, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions complete fourth flight test of XQ-58A Valkyrie UAS

January 27, 2020
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On Jan. 23, 2020, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and its partner Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. successfully completed the fourth flight test of the XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost UAS demonstrator at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

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GA-ASI begins Multi-Domain Operations demonstrations with Gray Eagle Extended Range UAS

January 23, 2020
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Using a company-owned Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) UAS, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) completed the first in a series of internally-funded Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) demonstrations on Nov. 19, 2019, the company has announced.

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Dynetics’ X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle completes first flight

January 21, 2020
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Dynetics, the performer for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gremlins program, has announced that in Nov. 2019, it successfully flew its X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) for the first time at Dugway Proving Ground near Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Application period for SBIR and STTR seed funding opens

January 14, 2020
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As of Jan. 15, the application period for non-dilutive seed funding from the Department of Defense opens — the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

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Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24 mine hunting sonar completes initial in-water testing of next-gen D&R payload

January 7, 2020
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Northrop Grumman has announced that its AQS-24 mine hunting sonar recently completed initial in-water testing of a next-generation Deploy and Retrieval (D&R) payload.

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