Unmanned Systems

Arlington, Va.-based AeroVironment [AVAV] said on Monday that the U.S. Army has lifted a stop work order for the company’s Switchblade kamikaze drones under an up to $990 million, five-year […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Thursday announced it demonstrated the ability of a navigation system used by a MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle to operate at high latitudes within the Arctic […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency published a notice on Sept. 11 looking for “innovative proposals” for its Sync program to counter unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs). DARPA said this Sync […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—A network of low-cost acoustic sensors developed and in use by Ukrainian forces to detect and counter low flying one-way drones launched by Russian forces is so effective […]

Anduril Industries and General Atomics may conduct first flights in the next year of their Fury and Gambit offerings for the first increment of the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) this week announced that earlier this year it awarded three contracts for vendors to build a database that allows unmanned systems to operate in disconnected […]

Merlin on Thursday said its planned acquisition of fellow aircraft autonomy pilot developer EpiSci has been called off although no reason was given. In June, Merlin announced its agreement to […]

Unmanned surface vessels (USVs) being used to provide maritime domain awareness in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility (AOR) are performing well but more time is needed to better […]

Anduril Industries on Thursday unveiled a new family of low-cost, expendable, multi-mission autonomous air vehicles (AAVs) that also come with cruise missile variants, all at what it says will be […]

Vantage Robotics on Tuesday launched the second product in its small drone portfolio, Trace, a nano drone for military operations in contested environments, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure applications. Trace, […]