Pyro-less CO2 Parachute Deployment System for Drones (Video)
A number of drones on the market today currently "utilize CO2 cartridges that use a small pyrotechnic charge to fire a piercing pin into the CO2 canister," explains Gene Engelgau, CEO of...
Ontic Acquires Part of GE Aviation’s Avionics Business (Learn More)
Ontic, a BBA Aviation company and the aerospace industry’s leading provider of ‘Extended Life Solutions’ for OEM legacy products, has reached an agreement to acquire a portfolio of legacy avionics products...
LRAD Wins Two Platinum AST Homeland Security Awards (Video)
LRAD Corporation, the world’s leading provider of acoustic hailing devices (AHDs) and advanced mass notification systems, has announced that the LRAD 360X and the LRAD 100X have been honored by American...
LA Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life +60 Yrs (Learn More)
A Sun Valley, California, man was sentenced today to life plus 60 years in prison for a 2013 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in which he murdered a Transportation...
Robotic Aircraft Delivering Life Saving Medical Supplies (See in Action)
Trust Automation, known for standard and custom high efficiency motors and controls as well as support system solutions, has provided critical engineering support in the development of the recovery system for Zipline...
Kongsberg & AirMap UAS Real-Time Airspace & Flight Tools Platform
Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based developer of real-time, mission-critical, geospatial visualisation software, and AirMap, the leading airspace management platform for drones, will begin delivering AirMap’s real-time airspace services to users of the...
IndigoVision Introduces Tiered Video Mngmt Software (Video)
IndigoVision has launched their new tiered Video Management Software with Control Center v14.0, radically changing the way this innovative security management system is delivered. This change significantly widens the potential user base...
FAA Awards $90 Million in Infrastructure Grants to Airports
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has announced more than $90 million in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants to six airports in Alabama, Missouri, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Wyoming for airport runway,...
DHS Identifies 11 Airports Selected for Preclearance Expansion (Video)
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has announced 11 new foreign airports, located in nine countries, selected for possible Preclearance expansion.
If Preclearance operations are expanded to these airports, travelers would undergo...
SDI Dual-View HI-SCAN 180180-2is pro Qualifies for TSA (See in Action)
Smiths Detection’s advanced dual-view X-ray cargo scanner, the HI-SCAN 180180-2is pro, has become its latest system to be accepted into the “qualified” section of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)’s Air Cargo...
