The Ocean Pines Police Department in Ocean Pines, Maryland is now utilizing UAS to search for missing people.
Just last week, the department used its UAS to help in the search of a missing 79-year-old woman. The department also recently had two separate incidents of missing persons within the same week.
“There’s a large retirement population in Ocean Pines and the police department deals with its share of elderly residents with dementia who walk off and are reported missing,” says Sawyer, marketing and public relations director for the Ocean Pines Association.
“These residents need to be found quickly, which is capable with the help of the new unmanned aircraft system.”
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Magnesium acquires UAS software provider Cyberhawk
Cyberhawk, a provider of UAS inspections and asset visualization software for energy infrastructure, has announced that it has been acquired by funds advised by Magnesium Capital LLP.
According to Cyberhawk, the transaction will provide more growth capital to fund further stages of software development, as well as U.S. expansion.
“We are extremely proud to have established a globally renowned reputation and to be relied upon by many of the world’s largest energy companies,” says Cyberhawk CEO Chris Fleming.
AeroVironment to provide allied nation with its Puma AE II small UAS, training and support
AeroVironment has received a $17,356,084 firm-fixed-price contract to provide an allied nation with its Puma AE II small UAS, training and support.
Delivery of the fully man-portable drone is expected by September 2019.
Designed for land and maritime operations, the AeroVironment Puma AE can land in water or on land. Equipped with its Mantis i45 sensor suite, the all-environment UAS provides the operator with extended flight time and a level of imaging capability never before available in the small UAS class, according to AeroVironment.
Apex Unmanned and RelmaTech partner to promote benefits of UAS Remote ID and tracking technologies
UAS consulting company Apex Unmanned and technology company RelmaTech have agreed to collaborate on the promotion of the benefits that UAS Remote Identification and tracking technologies can offer.
Apex Unmanned and RelmaTech are partners on the Nevada team that NASA recently selected to execute its NASA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) Technical Capability Level (TCL) 4 program. Under the leadership of the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS), the Nevada UAS Test Site was selected to execute TCL4 through a competitive process with six other states.
Valqari introduces Smart Drone Delivery Mailbox
A Chicago-based start-up called Valqari says that its patented Smart Drone Delivery Mailbox solves the last inch logistic problems associated with drone delivery.
Described as a “universal drone receptacle for package delivery and pick-up,” the smart mailbox is equipped with agnostic capabilities to ensure seamless integration and communication with any UAS manufacturer during a fully-automated delivery process.
Valqari says that with its smart mailbox, it can “revolutionize drone deliveries” for a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, meal delivery and grocery services, governments and residential e-commerce.
Peachtree Corners helping local STEM high school launch UAS program
Through a collaboration with Peachtree Corners, Georgia and the city’s startup incubator, Prototype Prime, the new Paul Duke STEM High School in Norcross, Georgia was awarded a 2019 Infinite Energy STEAM Education Grant of $2,000, which will be used to launch the school’s UAS program.
The UAS program will be designed to engage students in the full life cycle of designing, building and operating UAS for professional applications, as well as racing.
University of Nebraska and partners prepping for UAS-based investigation of severe storms
A UAS-based investigation of severe storms is set to launch in a few weeks.
Known as Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells (TORUS), the project will be a collaboration between the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and three partner institutions, including Texas Tech University, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Severe Storms Laboratory.
The project will start on May 15, and fieldwork for the project will continue until June 16, covering a 367,000-square-mile area of the Great Plains from North Dakota to Texas, Iowa to Wyoming and Colorado.
UPS, Matternet delivering medical samples in North Carolina using drones
UPS has announced a partnership with Matternet to use drones to deliver medical samples in North Carolina, marking the “first FAA sanctioned use of a drone for routine revenue flights involving the transport of a product under a contractual delivery agreement,” the companies say.
PrecisionHawk uses drone technology to hunt for buried treasure in the Philippines
Buried treasure is often the stuff of legend, but that didn’t stop PrecisionHawk from recently traveling more than 7,000 miles to hunt for buried treasure in the Philippines left by the Japanese during World War II.
Working alongside the History Channel on a show called Lost Gold of World War II, a production company called Ample Entertainment approached PrecisionHawk in June 2018 because it needed a partner that could use lidar-equipped drones to penetrate the deep vegetation in order to map ancient trade paths across more than 70 acres of rainforest in the Philippines.
ADAMA and Tactical Robots partner to develop UAS for aerial spraying
Global crop protection company ADAMA Ltd. has partnered with Israeli aerospace company Tactical Robotics Ltd. in a joint feasibility study for a High-Payload, UAS for aerial spraying.
Tactical Robotics has developed the Cormorant, which is a multi-role, compact, high payload, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAS. Capable of carrying an effective payload of more than 500 kilograms (up to 764 kilograms including fuel), the UAS can perform a variety of tasks, from logistics and cargo services to fire-fighting and aerial spraying.