AUVSI news syndication http://www.auvsi.org http://www.netstrategies.com NetStrategies site syndication http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1795 Main - Latest News The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Board of Directors is proud to announce the appointment of Mr. Michael Toscano as the Executive Director of AUVSI. http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1794 Main - Latest News Lockheed Martin has successfully demonstrated the Intelligent Control and Autonomous Re-planning of Unmanned Systems (ICARUS) suite of technologies as part of an exercise conducted August 12-14. http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1793 Main - Latest News The release of a final Request for Proposals to provide a small tactical unmanned aircraft system to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps has been delayed, the U.S. Navy said. http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1792 Main - Latest News Zephyr's reputation as the world's leading solar powered high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been reinforced with a world-beating three and a half day flight at the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1791 Main - Latest News The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence says Team Stellar, which used a combination of air and ground systems and a control station fusing them together, has won its first Grand Challenge. http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1790 Main - Latest News Russia says it shot down three Georgian unmanned aerial vehicles in the middle of August in a continuing conflict over the breakaway province of South Ossetia. http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1789 Main - Latest News San Diego-On a blindingly sunny afternoon in southern California, a team from the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Pasadena surged ahead of five qualifying schools Saturday to win the first annual Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition. http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1787 Main - Latest News The 18th annual AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) was conducted from 28 July to 1 August 2008 at Ft. Benning's (Georgia) McKenna MOUT site, which is a special facility having a complete uninhabited village for use in urban warfare games. http://www.auvsi.org/news/index.cfm#News1786 Main - Latest News On Friday, August 8, more than 50 students from 6 schools will slip months of hard work onto the surface of a simulated ocean during the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and the U.S. Office of Naval Research's 1st International Autonomous Surface Vehicle Student Competition.