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Betting Big - And Small - On Electric Cars
July 14, 2009
The cars of the future will run on electricity, most major automakers agree on that. What they don't agree on is how soon drivers will be ready to fully embrace electric power and how aggressively to push electric cars.
-> View MoreVancouver Council Considers Mandatory Installation of Electric Car Chargers
July 08, 2009

New Satellite Co. Seeks to Address U.S. Military's Unmet Demand for Communications & Data Relay Capacity
July 02, 2009
A clutch of former Pentagon brass is helping to start a company that offers a new service: satellites intended solely for military communications that would be built, launched and owned by private investors.
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DARPA Awards AeroVironment Phase II Contract Extension for Nano Air Vehicle Development Program
July 01, 2009
MONROVIA, Calif., July 1, 2009 -- AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) (NASDAQ: AVAV) was awarded a Phase II contract extension in April from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and build a flying prototype for the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program. As part of this program AV has accomplished a technical milestone never before achieved: the controlled hovering flight of an air vehicle system with two flapping wings that carries its own energy source and uses only the flapping wings for propulsion and control. -> View More

How To Build a Spy Bat - AeroVironment Featured on Forbes.com
June 27, 2009
Researchers are studying creatures that fly through the night in hopes of making tiny flying spies.
As U.S. soldiers march over the mountains of Afghanistan, they lug in backpacks contraptions that look more like model planes than military equipment: flying drones that can buzz over ridges and mountains, looking for Taliban and terrorists. The drones, which the soldiers direct with a controller that looks like a videogame, make their reports by sending back real-time video feeds.
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Forbes Magazine Profiles AeroVironment
June 26, 2009
A maker of tiny spy drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan is trying to add lethal firepower and altitude to its profitable business. Aerovironment, a Monrovia, Calif. company, set the world record for altitude in 2001, when it flew a gangly, remote-controlled, solar-powered plane with a 250-foot wingspan to 96,863 feet. The sky is dark up there, and the air is thin, just one-hundredth the density of air at sea level.
-> View MoreInside the Pentagon's New Plans for Lethal Drones
June 18, 2009
Esquire.com gets an advanced look at the Air Force roadmap to better robots - flying multi-missile hitmen, floating multi-target guidance systems, flapping suicide bombers - and how they can zero in on Al Qaeda without costing Hillary her job.
-> View MoreUAS Market Challenges Traditional Aerospace
June 15, 2009

AeroVironment Receives Order for Third Global Observer Aircraft under JCTD Program
June 03, 2009
