Unmanned Systems Canada published a special edition of USC News on July 23, 2018 to announce the first annual Canadian National Unmanned Ground Vehicle Student Competition. We hope you’ll agree that initiatives like the UGM Student competition demonstrate USC’s commitment to provide value for our membership and the ‘unmanned community’ by continuing to connect and inform you […]
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National Unmanned Ground Vehicle Student Competition Announced! Unmanned Systems Canada is pleased to announce Canada’s first Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Student Competition, modelled after our very successful and long-running Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Student Competition. As with our UAV Competition, this new UGV Competition will allow students at post-secondary institutions across Canada to develop a scale […]
Register now to join 400 Unmanned Systems experts, investors, policy-makers and exhibitors in Vancouver at Canada’s largest Conference and Tradeshow, #UC18Vancouver! USC Members get additional discounts on exhibitor booths and sponsorship packages – so join now to receive an email with your discount code to use when you register. Early bird rates apply until […]
Our collegues at UAV Coach have let us know of a new 2018 UAS/RPAS/Drone Survey being conducted by SkyLogic and targeted to look at the state of the industry this year in time for InterDrone. While US based, they are collecting data from a number of countries and so it might be possible to provide […]
CAF UAS ISTAR Service Tender Released The CAF UAS Services program includes providing near real-time, beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) information to the CAF tactical units at sea and on land. These services are required in Naval and Land operational environments and are defined work packages called Assignments, which are firm […]
UC18 Conference registration is now open! Great news! Unmanned Systems Canada announces that registration for Unmanned Canada 2018 is now open. UC18 is Canada’s premiere Unmanned Systems Conference, covering Land, Sea, and Air applications of unmanned vehicles in Canada. This year, UC18 will focus daily on themes of interest to the Unmanned Systems community… Partnering […]
The Federal Privacy Commissioner’s finding regarding the requirement of the Interim Order to label UAVs is attached. In summary the Privacy Commissioner supports the Interim Order as a means to deal with public safety, and notes that TC is intending to revisit the issue in their drafting of CG2. Privacy Commissioner report findings
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Second DRONE ENABLE, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Industry (DRONE ENABLE/2) Symposium Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Request for Information (RFI) Submission deadline: 30 April 2018 The RFI is available at https://www.icao.int/Meetings/DRONEENABLE2 For more information, please contact the RPAS Programme Office at [email protected]. [wpdm_package id=4488 template=”link-template-calltoaction3.php”]
10th Annual Unmanned Systems Canada – National Student UAV Competition May 4-6th 2018 Southport, Manitoba More details have been released about ‘the UAV Student Competition Scenari0’ This is a “made in Canada” Simulated BVLOS UAS Student Competition Challenge. In this year’s scenario, law enforcement has been called to the scene of a suspected bike gang operation in a remote farm […]
Agriculture and AgriFood Canada (AAFC) has a requirement for the supply and delivery of a hyperspectral imager camera and hexacopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used for vegetation quantification and assessment for agricultural biodiversity studies, and agriculture-impacted watershed studies of surface water quality, both outputs to be used to feed directly into real-time models and realtime […]