A small unmanned aerial vehicle charts a course through a collapsed building. Image courtesy of DARPA. Researchers at one of the six university-based unmanned aircraft system centers of excellence ...

NASA and US Forest Service researchers are evaluating advanced unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technologies to expand wildfire imaging and mapping capabilities. Researchers from NASA Ames Research ...

NASA Langley Research Center, located in Hampton VA, is seeking to fill an AST, Flight Systems Safety Engineer position – GS-11/12/13. This appointment has funding confirmed for 2 years under the ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have agreed to jointly develop and test systems that can support the use of unmanned aircraft systems in air cargo operations and the rest of the country’s ...

A team led by NASA and U.S. Forest Service scientists recently collected real-time, visible and infrared data from sensors onboard a remotely piloted aircraft over the Esperanza Fire in Southern ...

NASA is polling industry to assess the state of the art in autonomy for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), to help guide its research on integrating UAS into the national airspace system (NAS). In ...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has landed a five-year, $70M contract to help NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center integrate sensor technology onto unmanned aircraft. The company will perform ...

Reliable plans to certify its autonomy platform first as a modification for the Cessna Caravan. Credit: Reliable Robotics Reliable Robotics has signed a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA to jointly ...

The second phase of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) traffic management pilot program (UTM/UPP) ended with testing demonstrations in partnership with the ...

American Aerospace Technology Inc’s AiRanger™ (formerly the Resolute Eagle) unmanned aircraft system (UAS/drone) successfully completed a demonstration flight on February 25 as part of NASA’s Systems ...

The APT-70, an autonomous pod transport created by Bell, completed a beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight demonstration with NASA to evaluate the next steps in using drones within an urban ...