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14 Dec 17. Airbus Helicopters has gone a step further in the experimentation of its Project Eagle, with the in-flight validation of the innovative on-board image processing system. Performed on an H225 flying testbed, the trials have demonstrated the system’s ability to select a small ground “target” from ranges of up to 2 miles and to automatically track it during the approach performed by the pilot. The flight tests have also validated Eagle’s architecture and main components, such as the gyrostabilized optronics package and the processing unit. The next steps of the testing campaign will focus on coupling Eagle with the automatic flight control system to fully automatise the approach to a selected landing area.
Codenamed Eagle (Eye for Autonomous Guidance and Landing Extension), this research project aims to federate the entire helicopter’s image processing functions and feed them into the avionics system, thus improving the crew’s situation awareness and reducing the pilot’s workload by automating and securing approaches, take-off and landing in the most demanding environments. The system is designed to be integrated on a variety of existing and future Airbus vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles.
14 Dec 17. Spain-Madrid: Surveillance system, 2017/S 240-497960. Contract award notice, Results of the procurement procedure
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Dirección del Servicio de Gestión Económica de la Agencia Estatal de la Administración Tributaria
Q2826000H
C/ Lérida, 32-34
Madrid
28020
Spain
Contact person: Dirección del Servicio de Gestión Económica de la Agencia Estatal de la Administración Tributaria
Telephone: +34 915838072
E-mail: contratacion@correo.aeat.es
NUTS code: ES300
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://contrataciondelestado.es
Address of the buyer profile: https://contrataciondelestado.es/wps/poc?uri=deeplink:perfilContratante&idBp=6Q1RWTT1pLY%3D
I.2)Joint procurement
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5)Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
Section II: Object
II.1)Scope of the procurement
II.1.1)Title:
Adquisición de dos Sistemas de Videovigilancia con vehículos
Reference number: 17710069500
II.1.2)Main CPV code
35125000
II.1.3)Type of contract
Supplies
II.1.4)Short description:
Adquisición de dos Sistemas de Videovigilancia con vehículos.
V.2.2)Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no
V.2.3)Name and address of the contractor
Tradesegur, S.A.
A80015506
Madrid
Spain
NUTS code: ES
The contractor is an SME: yes
V.2.4)Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: 476 000.00 EUR
Total value of the contract/lot: 474 000.00 EUR
VI.4.1)Review body
Tribunal Administrativo Central de Recursos Contractuales (TACRC)
Avenida General Perón, 38
Madrid
28020
Spain
VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures
VI.4.3)Review procedure
VI.4.4)Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
11/12/2017
(Source: Europa TED)
14 Dec 17. Fire Scout to Serve as Forward Spotter for US Navy. The US Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles will receive a new radar and datalink to set the UAV up as a forward spotter for the Navy’s surface fleet. The Northrop Grumman-built UAV is set to be upgraded with a Leonardo Osprey 30 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar and the Link 16 datalink, the combination of which will allow the UAV to distribute air-to-air and surface targeting information to ships in a surface action group, company offic