This Week in the Unmanned Systems and Robotics World

To ensure that kids read this summer, Wing has begun delivering books to students of the Christiansburg, Virginia school district. The idea behind the deliveries came from Kelly Passek, a middle-school librarian who works for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. Passek was one of the first customers of Wing’s drone delivery service launched in Christiansburg last year. (Washington Post)

The first unmanned test flight of Indian rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) will not take place this year. The original plan was for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send its humanoid Vyommitra for the first test flight. (Business Insider India)

Following a destructive storm at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) on April 13, drones were used to assess the damage so that repairs could be made. The UAS flight produced direct visual observation and still photos of the areas of interest, and provided details that would not have been able to be captured without the support of a UAS. (Naval Sea Systems Command)

The army is increasingly emphasizing the need to fully network air and ground drones to one another. Doing this would provide a way to fully defend advancing armored units in war and to pursue new applications of Combined Arms Maneuver. (The National Interest)

The Air Force recently released a request for information for a next-generation drone to replace the MQ-9 Reaper. One of the potential replacements could be TEROS, a modern drone made by NavMar. (Forbes)