Category Archives: Announcements

UAS Member Company Collaborates with Montreal Team to Present at Dubai Drone Event

USC’s member ARA Robotique, in partnership with the Montreal based company Humanitas Solutions,  is competing at the UAE Drones For Good Award at Dubai Internet City this week. The  Award received more than 1,000 projects from 165 countries around the world, displaying high levels of innovation and technological development.The projects aim to find innovative solutions […]

Kongsberg Gallium Announces Company Name Change

Kongsberg Gallium, an Ottawa-based developer of real-time, mission critical, geospatial visualisation software, announced today that they will be changing their name to Kongsberg Geospatial Ltd., effective immediately. The move is part of a comprehensive rebranding strategy to more effectively align the Company’s name with its future strategy and functional role as part of the Kongsberg […]

The Canadian Government releases Request for Information for the DND Joint Unmanned Surveillance and Target Acquisition System (JUSTAS).

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is requesting Industry feedback regarding long range, long endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for the Government of Canada (GC), the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The objectives of this RFI are to: a. share with Industry, the GC and the CAF long range, […]

Student Competition – Call for Sponsors

A record 18 teams, representing the best and brightest from Canadian universities and colleges have registered for this year’s UAS student competition.  A challenging precision agriculture scenario will test their engineering, program management, innovation and leadership skills.  Their first deadline will be the submission of their system design report due January 15th.   If all the […]

Thank you for making Unmanned Canada 2015 such a terrific success!

Unmanned Systems Canada wishes to thank all attendees, exhibitors, partners and sponsors for one of the most memorable Conferences to date! Thank you to everyone who joined us, including our outstanding session presenters, speakers, panelists and incredible volunteers who helped us showcase Canadian capabilities. Your participation helped make this year’s Conference an outstanding forum for […]

Unmanned Systems Showcase & Live Demonstration Day

Demo Day  – Friday November 6th Sponsored by Atlantic Alliance of Aerospace & Defence Associations and Survival Systems Training Ltd Join us on Friday, November 6th for an Unmanned Systems Showcase and live industry demonstrations featuring marine unmanned systems technologies at Survival Systems Training’s revolutionary training facilities. SSTL’s state of the art facilities have been designed for use […]

Staff Transitions

Staff Transitions Sonia Higgins The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Sonia Higgins has accepted our offer to serve as our first full-time Executive Director. We are excited that Sonia will be bringing her energy and progressive vision to the leadership of the organization; in addition to her extensive experience and knowledge in […]