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  • Strategic Defense Intelligence: Global UAV Market to Hit 6% CAGR in 2015-2025 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Strategic Defense Intelligence: Global UAV Market to Hit 6% CAGR in 2015-2025

    Strategic Defense Intelligence has released a report that predicts the global unmanned aerial vehicle market will achieve a 5.66 percent compound annual growth rate from 2015 to 2025. The report analyzes global industry values, factors that drive demand, market challenges and key industry players, ReportBuyer said Wednesday. Strategic Defense Intelligence projects North America and Europe would account for […] More

  • Exelis Receives 3rd Order for GA-ASI Drone Carriage and Release Systems; Pete Martin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives 3rd Order for GA-ASI Drone Carriage and Release Systems; Pete Martin Comments

    Exelis will continue to manufacture pneumatic carriage and release systems for the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle under a $27 million contract from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. The follow-on contract for 619 units of the BRU-71/A ejector rack is the third such order from the California-based aeronautics firm, with work to occur in Amityville, New […] More

  • Visiongain Report: Top UAV Makers Eye Specialties to Diffuse Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain Report: Top UAV Makers Eye Specialties to Diffuse Competition

    Business information provider Visiongain has unveiled its list of top 20 unmanned aerial vehicles and systems manufacturers in the world. The report predicts the specialties companies will choose in the field and how new players will try to stake a claim on a market that could undergo key structural changes amid an emergent commercial UAVs segment, Visiongain said Monday. “Although increasingly competitive, the […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Military UAV Market Growth to Slow Through 2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global Military UAV Market Growth to Slow Through 2022

    A new report from Research and Markets has highlighted what the firm identifies as the drivers, restraints, trends and potential revenue opportunities in the global market for military unmanned aerial vehicles The market research firm said Thursday that the market’s growth will slow down through 2022 and that the U.S. will hold the largest market share, followed by Asia-Pacific and Europe. Research and Markets’ “Global […] More

  • Orbital Corp. Delivers 1st Engine for Insitu's Small UAS; Terry Stinson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital Corp. Delivers 1st Engine for Insitu’s Small UAS; Terry Stinson Comments

    Boeing‘s subsidiary Insitu will start to perform testing and development work on the propulsion system for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle following Orbital Corp.‘s delivery of the first engine. Orbital said Tuesday that the internal-combustion engine was built specifically for small unmanned aircraft systems such as the ScanEagle. Terry Stinson, chief executive and managing director of Orbital, said the company will now move […] More

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  • Ryan Hartman: Boeing's Insitu to Explore Commercial Markets for ScanEagle UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ryan Hartman: Boeing’s Insitu to Explore Commercial Markets for ScanEagle UAV

    Ryan Hartman, CEO of Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary, said the business is looking to make its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle commercially available for agricultural and environmental uses, Avionics Magazine reported Wednesday. Woodrow Bellamy III writes that Hartman wants to adopt a UAV commercialization strategy similar to the one Insitu used when it entered the defense market. […] More

  • Northrop Finishes Work to Manufacture NATO Ground Surveillance UAV's Fuselage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Finishes Work to Manufacture NATO Ground Surveillance UAV’s Fuselage

    Northrop Grumman has completed its work to manufacture the fuselage for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle and is sending the fuselage to a plant in Palmdale, California for the final stages of production. In a notice posted July 28, NATO said the overall AGS Core system will have both ground and air segments. For the air segment, Northrop will provide […] More

  • Report: Small UAV Market to Reach $582M in Value by 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Small UAV Market to Reach $582M in Value by 2019

    The small unmanned aerial vehicle market is projected to grow by the end of 2019 at a 22 percent compound annual growth rate to a total market value of $582.2 million, according to a recent MarketsandMarkets report. The six-year global forecast on the small and man-portable UAV market classifies the technology based on trends, propulsion, payload, application, region […] More

  • Teal Group Forecasts Continued Growth in Global UAV Market; Philip Finnegan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teal Group Forecasts Continued Growth in Global UAV Market; Philip Finnegan Comments

    Teal Group‘s 2014 market study on unmanned aerial vehicles indicates a projected $77 billion in global UAV spending over the next 10 years, with spending in the civil market rising alongside the military market’s continued dominance. Teal Group Director of Corporate Analysis Philip Finnegan and Senior Analysts Steve Zaloga and David Rockwell co-authored the report titled “World Unmanned […] More

  • Thales, Other Contractors to Bid on Potential French UAV Tender - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales, Other Contractors to Bid on Potential French UAV Tender

    The Airbus Group‘s defense and space division and Textron have teamed to bid for a future tender offer by the French government for unmanned aerial vehicle technology, C4ISR & Networks reported Thursday. Pierre Tran writes the tender is expected in the second half of 2014 for awarding in 2015, with the Airbus Textron team facing competition from Safran‘s Sagem […] More

  • Northrop's Unmanned Systems Center Expects More Gov't Contracting Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Unmanned Systems Center Expects More Gov’t Contracting Work

    Northrop Grumman‘s unmanned aircraft systems facility in Moss Point, Miss. is expected to bring growth, investment and jobs to the area, according to the Jackson County Economic Development Foundation’s executive director, the Mississippi Business Journal blog reported Monday. JCEDF’s George Freeland said the $30 million Unmanned Systems Center also brings economic diversity because it adds to the shipbuilding and petrochemical industries in […] More

  • Air Force to Test Raytheon Team's Hyperspectral UAV Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Test Raytheon Team’s Hyperspectral UAV Sensor

    The U.S. Air Force will test a hyperspectral imaging sensor developed by a Raytheon-lead contracting team for the service’s MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Sunday. John Keller writes the Air Force intends to negotiate a contract with Raytheon for the flight testing of a pod-based Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System-Hyperspectral system. […] More