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16 April 2021
Insitu Pacific and Boeing [NYSE: BA] Australia’s Detect and Avoid (DAA) capability is now ready to field in real-world operations after test flights demonstrated enhanced detection ranges between an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and other airspace users. The technology is designed to advance the ability to safely integrate UAS into different classes of airspace.
The Australian-designed and built, vision-based technology can detect other aircraft at distances that are beyond the requirements for safe avoidance and are a vast improvement on the capabilities of the human eye.
Andrew Duggan, managing director, Insitu Pacific said the latest trials had achieved a range of more than one nautical mile and were a culmination of over five years’ development in Queensland.
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By Tanya Notley, Western Sydney University; Michael Dezuanni, Queensland University of Technology; Simon Chambers, Western Sydney University, and Sora Park, University of Canberra
For most of us, it’s hard to imagine a media-free day.
Understanding what’s happening in the world, maintaining our social media profiles, staying in touch with family, being entertained, making new friends, engaging with governments, and with our democracy, are all activities that usually require media participation.
QUT once valued freedom of speech, diversity of thought and empowerment of teams and individuals. That has now been replaced with a workplace where we are scared to speak up, let alone raise any issues for fear we will lose our jobs. The letter also said recent renovations featuring marble and private bathrooms demonstrated an overt display of power . while money is reduced in areas where it is actually needed . At the same time, the university axed 174 positions - but
The Courier-Mail understands about 1500 contracts were also not renewed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. One staff member told The Courier-Mail she was frequently snapped at and spoken down to by her senior leaders, leaving her feeling intimidated and incompetent at her job despite her many years of experience.