The House of Commons Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities has released: Study of Unmanned Air Vehicle Regulations: An Interim Report. Unmanned Systems Canada and members of our industry testified before the committee as inputs to this report. We expect to be commenting on elements of this report to the committee. Industry is invited to […]
The World Road Association (PIARC) has issued a Call for Proposals for the “The use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to Remotely Collect Data for Road Infrastructure.” Deadline:11 March 2017 [wpdm_package id=3125 template=”link-template-calltoaction3.php”]
The Royal Canadian Navy has issued an RFI for their ISTAR UAS project; closing date of 18 April 2017. https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/tender-notice/PW-QD-037-26189
Transport Canada has contracted LOOKNorth with support from Unmanned Systems Canada to undertake a UAS industry survey with a particular emphasis on the impact of BVLOS capabilities. The purpose is to update a 2013 survey and to provide insight into planned sector growth in both the domestic and export markets. The results will be critical […]
Unmanned Systems Canada is publicly releasing Small RPAS Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) Best Practices, a document developed by Unmanned Systems Canada to provide guidance to industry for BVLOS operation of small unmanned aircraft. This document was previously released to registered members of Unmanned Systems Canada as version 1.1 for discussion at the Unmanned […]
Aeryon Labs and DroneDeploy Partner to Deliver End-to-End Enterprise UAS Solutions Aeryon Labs Inc., a manufacturer of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) and DroneDeploy, the leading drone data platform, today announced their partnership to deliver integrated UAS solutions to end-users and service providers in the commercial/industrial market. Aeryon is pleased to make a new bundled hardware […]
The University of Calgary has issued an RFP for a UAV Mapping System. Bids close on 14 Feb 2017. [wpdm_package id=2874 template=”link-template-calltoaction3.php”]
On 19 January, the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE) and the Kanata North Business Improvement Area, partnered with the Conference Board of Canada, Unmanned Systems Canada and InvestOttawa, organized a summit to connect government, post-secondary and industry representatives to turn the National Capital Region into a hub for autonomous vehicles (AV). The summit […]
The food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is looking to obtain preliminary information on the availability of potential vendors to provide solutions enabling FAO, within the context of Desert Locust early warning & preventive control systems, to improve its monitoring activities through the use of fixed and rotary wing ‘drones’. The purpose of […]
On December 21st, 2016 Transport Canada (TC) released the new criteria for exemptions from SFOC requirements for operations of UAV’s with a max takeoff weight of 25 kilograms. These exemption requirements are in effect as of today, and all operators are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the changes. Specific details regarding the requirements, including rationales […]