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August 15, 2014
Schools Square Off to Serve as FAA’s New UAS Center of Excellence.

Universities must declare by August 22 if they will seek to lead a new federal research effort on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), a…

By Inside GNSS


August 15, 2014
DoT Sets Workshop on GPS Adjacent Band Compatibility

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) will host a workshop on September 18 to discuss implementation of a GPS Adjacent Band Compatibility (ABC)…

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August 8, 2014
DARPA seeks bids for ‘upward falling payloads’ project

This artist’s concept shows a potential communications application of an upward falling payload. The pentagon’s most creative research agency is seeking its second…

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August 8, 2014
UAS Center of Excellence solicitation to be released in May

The new Center of Excellence will do research to support the Federal Aviation Administration as it works to integrate unmanned aircraft into the…

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August 8, 2014
Nine teams enter NASA’s $500,000 sense-and-avoid Challenge

Nine teams of students and private sector inventors will compete this fall to see who can build the best detect-and-avoid system for small…

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August 8, 2014
Nevada: Unmanned Aircraft Standards

A UNR researcher monitors a small UAV. 1. The Team The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development is leading the unmanned aircraft system…

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August 8, 2014
Alaska: Remote Sensing

Flight testing ACUASI’s OpenRaven unmanned vehicle in Alaska. 1. The Team The Pan-Pacific UAS Test Range complex is likely the largest of the…

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August 8, 2014
Test Sites: The Select Six

ALASKA Remote Sensing 1. The Team The Pan-Pacific UAS Test Range complex is likely the largest of the FAA test ranges both in…

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August 8, 2014
Special Report: UAS in the NAS

Clockwise from top left: A small drone rests on the ground during a demonstration in Florida, The Golden Eagle, a UAV developed at…

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August 8, 2014
Europe’s UAV Experience

Clockwise from top left: Belgium’s Trimble UX5; MAVinci unmanned autonomous microplane is ready to take off for a land survey mission; MAVinci autonomous…

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August 8, 2014
Driverless Cars

Stanley, an autonomous car developed by the Stanford University Racing Team, won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge after successfully traversing a 132-mile course….

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August 8, 2014
First of New Ocean Explorers Set to Launch

The Nereid Under Ice, the newest vehicle from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Deep Submergence Laboratory, undergoes tests in a pool at the…

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August 8, 2014
Publisher’s Letter

Transformative. My first encounter with an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, was at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen Germany. Here, I…

By Inside GNSS


August 5, 2014
EGNOS Service Provision Workshop 2014

The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (EGNOS) Service Provision Workshop will take place at the Conference Center Hotel Tivoli Lisboa in Lisbon,…

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