Unmanned Systems
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Another Contract For MQ-25 Carrier-Based Drone
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has become the third company to receive a concept refinement contract for the U.S. Navy’s new MQ-25 program, which aims to develop a carrier-based […]
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ArmyArmy Nears First Flight Of Improved Gray Eagle UAS
The U.S. Army plans to begin flight testing the new Improved Gray Eagle (IGE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) “before Christmas,” a service official said Oct. 5. The IGE is a […]
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Navy/USMCBell Helicopter Calls On Marine Corps To Progress In Group Five UAV Procurement
A Bell Helicopter [TXT] executive on Monday called on the Marine Corps to lay out specific requirements for its potential Group 5 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) procurement so the company […]
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Navy/USMCLockheed’s Vector Hawk Drone Launched From Unmanned Sub
Lockheed Martin [LMT[ recently launched its Vector Hawk small unmanned aircraft from an unmanned submarine for the first time, the company said Sept. 28. During the test, which occurred at […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Awards Contracts For New Carrier-Based Drone
The Navy has awarded two of the four contracts it plans to give industry for the recently revamped MQ-25 unmanned aircraft program. Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] received one-year […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyIndustry Awaits Next Phase of DARPA’s Gremlins UAS Program
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), whose Gremlins program is developing an air-launched, air-recoverable unmanned air system, is nearing completion of the program’s first phase […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDARPA Seeks Better Tracking Of Small Drones In Cities
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has unveiled a new program, Aerial Dragnet, which aims to develop technologies that provide a single, integrated picture of all small unmanned aerial […]
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Navy/USMCDoD Delays Approving Low-Rate Production Of Navy’s Triton
Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall is holding off on approving low-rate production of the Navy’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned surveillance plane until “several items” are addressed, according to a Department of […]
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Unmanned SystemsDoD Office Amassing Flight Tests Of Expendable Micro UAV
The head of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) said Sept. 8 that he plans to decide in about a year whether Perdix, an expendable “micro” unmanned […]
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InternationalCanada Becomes First Foreign Buyer Of Insitu’s Blackjack UAS
Canada has signed an agreement making it the first foreign buyer of the Insitu RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned air system (UAS). One Blackjack system, which consists of five air vehicles, two […]