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Three Calgary-based companies are part of a larger team that has been selected as one of two qualified bidders for a Canadian aerospace military contract worth in excess of $1 billion.
Canadian UAVs a Calgary-based unmanned aerial vehicle service company has been selected along with ATCO and Lockheed Martin CDL Systems to be part of Team Artemis, a Canadian group bidding for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft System project. The project is meant to supply the Canadian military with unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly called drones) for both domestic surveillance purposes as well as deployed missions.
Calgary companies seeking to win multi-billion dollar Canadian military bid for drone procurement
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MQ-9 Reaper improvements expected to extend service life
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The U.S. Air Force announced improvements on Wednesday to the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle to extend its service life. Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force
April 21 (UPI) Upgrades to the fleet of MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft will increase its effectiveness, the U.S. Air Force announced on Wednesday.
Some existing versions of the drone aircraft will receive retrofit enhancements already installed on versions currently in production by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.
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Called the M2DO configuration, the improvements include additional anti-jamming properties, a boost in available electrical power and an open architecture design of the platform to encourage integration of new capabilities.
Hexagon US Federal selected by General Atomics Aeronautical for ISR Projects
Hexagon s Luciad Portfolio provides the geospatial foundation for advanced visualization and analysis
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CHANTILLY, Va., April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Hexagon US Federal has been selected to partner with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to provide geospatial solutions from Hexagon s Luciad Portfolio in support of cutting-edge intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) projects.
In this partnership, Hexagon US Federal offers capabilities from the Luciad Portfolio to enhance two GA-ASI projects: Metis, for autonomous tasking, collection management and intelligence sharing; and the Multi-Mission Controller (MMC), an operator-based multi-platform control system. This includes using LuciadRIA for the browser-based Metis solution, LuciadLightspeed for the MMC desktop solution and LuciadFusion as the common geospatial server for
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