The portfolio of the Army aerostat systems has doubled with the addition of 29 Persistent Ground Surveillance Systems (PGSS). Working in conjunction with the Navy, the Product Director (PD) Aerostats ...

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Ministry of National Defence announced it has signed a deal to buy four aerostat-based early warning radar systems from the United States under a deal worth almost $1 billion ...

A tethered dirigible or aerostat, like the kind CBP uses to keep tabs on the U.S.-Mexico border. Customs and Border Protection is coordinating Predator B drone operations and collecting data through ...

The Army has awarded a $383 million contract to Lockheed Martin to furnish and maintain aerostats that will provide warfighters with real-time aerial reconnaissance and surveillance of large swaths of ...

Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) use of Predator B unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for a variety of border security activities could benefit from documented coordination procedures in all operating ...

Persistent stare aircraft aren’t new. But tethered aerostats — unlike free-roaming blimps — can carry quickly reconfigurable sensor payloads and stay aloft for weeks or months of intelligence, ...

Let's be clear: An aerostat is more than just a blimp. Explaining that is a task that often falls to Kevin Kirkwood, a Combat Capabilities Development Command C5ISR Center employee currently ...

Aerostats are carving a substantial niche in the airborne surveillance business. This 590,000-cu-ft aerostat is the largest yet flown for a military surveillance mission. It was fabricated by TCOM for ...

The General Accountability Office says in a new study that efforts by the Defense Department to develop airships and aerostats for intelligence gathering and reconnaissance are faring poorly due to a ...

Aerobavovna, a Ukrainian startup, is making helium-filled balloons to aid Ukraine's drone attacks. Its balloons help to keep drones on the grid when they're on the ground or flying low. Aerobavovna's ...