Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
What Role are UAVs Currently Playing in ISR?
November 23 by IDGA EditorWhat role is the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) currently playing in providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) to ground troops in irregular warfare environments? How will this fu...
Mini UAVs – Next Generation Shadow Warriors
November 01 by IDGA EditorUnmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are not a recent discovery. The history of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can be traced back to World War I. In those days governments started trials with UAVs for defensi...
Air Force Roadmap for UAVs
October 19 by IDGA EditorCol Dale Fridley, Director of the Air Force UAS Task Force, discusses the USAF UAV Roadmap at IDGA's UAV Summit in April 2010. He talks about the flight plan and teaming with other services to come...
Randy Donnelson on the UAS push in Maritime Domain Awareness
September 28 by IDGA EditorRandy Donnelson, Director Miami Air and Marine Branch of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, discusses the UAS "technology push" in Maritime Domain Awareness at IDGA's Maritime Homeland Security Sum...
Depot Technology in Future Support of UAV/UAS with John Primbs
August 19 by IDGA EditorLtCol (ret) John Primbs, the Director of Advances Technology Workload Development in the Odgen Air Logistics Center Plans and Programs Office at Hills Air Force Base, dissusses depot level sustainme...
UAVs 'changing the face of warfare'
May 28 by IDGA EditorNo other weapon has changed the way the US military wages war in recent years like the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Dyke Weatherington, the deputy for the UAV planning task force in the office of...
Hybrid Engine Technology in UAVs with Jean Koster
May 05 by IDGA EditorMr. Jean Koster, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado, speaks about the HELIOS project, which is designing and testing hybrid engines for UAVs. He discusses the applicati...
Follow up to COL Chris Carlile's UAV/UAS 25 Year Roadmap Podcast
April 27 by COL Christopher CarlileThe following responses are from COL Christopher Carlile, Director of the Army's Unmanned Aircraft Center for Excellence. He did not have time on his IDGA Tip of the Spear Podcast to cover all ques...
UAV/UAS 25 Year Roadmap with COL Chris Carlile
April 20 by IDGA EditorCOL Christopher Carlile, Director of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center for Excellence, discusses the U.S. Army's 25 year roadmap for UAV/UAS. He speaks about the near, mid, and long term program...