A General Atomics-developed battery technology has received certification from the international certification body Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd following on-hull demonstration tests on a U.S. Special Operations Command undersea vehicle. DNV GL certified General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems‘ Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant battery after it completed more than 60 hours of at-sea “underway under battery power” operations, General Atomics said Monday. Paul Clark, LiFT program senior manager […] More

General Atomics and Elbit Systems are under consideration to provide long-endurance drones for Poland’s armed forces, Defense News reported Friday. Jaroslaw Adamowski writes Poland’s military announced the country’s plan to buy long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles either from the U.S. or Israel in 2015. Poland is deciding between the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-1C Gray Eagle, as well as Elbit’s Hermes […] More

General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems arm and the U.S. Navy have tested an aircraft arrestment system on a Boeing-built F/A-18E Super Hornet at the Runway Arrested Landing Site in the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The company said Friday its Advanced Arresting Gear turbo-electric system is designed to control deceleration of carrier aircraft. Dean Key, GA director of launch and recovery production programs and AAG design and development, […] More

The U.S. Air Force has agreed to share a runway at North Dakota-based Grand Forks Air Force Base with Northrop Grumman and General Atomics for the service branch and companies to test unmanned aerial vehicles. Sen. John Hoeven’s office (R-N.D.) said Wednesday the service branch signed a joint use agreement with Grand Sky Business and Technology Park to allow Northrop […] More

General Atomics has completed an open range testing exercise on a company-built railgun projectile guidance electronics unit. The hypersonic projectiles for the guidance electronics unit worked to transmit component performance data to a ground station via a telemetry link during the tests conducted at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, General Atomics said Sunday. […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems group conducted the first flight of the extended-range variant of its Predator B remotely piloted aircraft at Gray Butte Flight Test Facility on Feb. 18 to demonstrate launch ability, airworthiness and landing capability. The Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper extended-range long-wing upgrades include 13 feet of additional wingspan designed to boost aircraft endurance by 13 hours, short-field takeoff and landing modifications […] More

General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business has secured contracts to supply radiation monitoring systems to U.S. nuclear power plants with boiling water reactors equipped with Mark I and II containments. BWR plants with Mark I and II containments are required to install RMS and hardened containment vent systems in order to comply with a Nuclear Regulatory […] More

Spain’s defense ministry has placed an order for four General Atomics-built Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles through a $243 million foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. The contract also covers MTS-B electro-optical/infrared sensors, two Block 30 ground control stations, line-of-sight datalink platforms and Block 20A Lynx multi-mode radar for the Spanish armed forces, General […] More

General Atomics has received a $34 million order to develop and deploy a new software line for the Air Force Special Operations Command’s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will field the MQ-9 medium-altitude long-endurance tactical lead-off hitter software line under the basic ordering agreement with the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department […] More

General Atomics has completed open range tests on projectiles fired from the company’s 3-megajoule Blitzer electromagnetic railgun designed for a Control and Actuation System. During the tests, the projectiles relayed the performance of prototype components to a ground station via a telemetry link, General Atomics said Friday. The tests were conducted in December 2015 at the U.S. […] More

Defense and aerospace contractor General Tool Co. will provide hardware equipment for the U.S. Navy’s second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier under a $48 million subcontract from General Atomics, the Cincinnati Business Courier reported Friday. Andy Brownfield writes the contract covers trough covers, motor support parts and other safety components for the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) […] More

General Atomics has delivered the final two RQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft systems to the Italian Air Force. Frank Pace, president of aircraft systems at General Atomics aeronautical systems, said Tuesday that “with the delivery of these aircraft, GA-ASI completes over two decades of delivering Predator A capabilities to the United States and allied countries.” […] More