UAV anti-collision project

TEL AVIV – An American-Israel technology foundation selected a team from Honeywell and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to develop an anti-collision system aimed at allowing unmanned aerial vehicles to operate in civilian airspace. The joint development project is slated for flight testing on the IAI Heron-1 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in mid-2018, the firms announced July 11. The Honeywell-IAI Sense-and-Avoid (SAA)-equipped Heron medium-altitude, long-endurance UAS prototype will be tested in Israeli airspace in 2018 after development work is conducted in Tel Aviv and multiple American locations. (Source: Defense News 07/11/16) Central Mississippi Note: The U.S. locations were not announced. Stark Aerospace, a subsidiary of IAI North America, is an aerospace company located in Columbus, Miss., at the GTR Global Industrial Aerospace Park. Stark produces the Hunter MQ-5B Tactical UAS used by the Army in support of operations around the globe.