Unmanned Systems

The Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle reached a Navy declaration of initial operating capability (IOC) on Aug. 3 and the aircraft are back in Guam for another […]

The U.S. State Department has given the go ahead for a more than $313 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of munitions, radars and other equipment for Canadian MQ-9Bs by General […]

The U.S. 4th Fleet deployed 10 Saildrone Voyager Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) via commercial operators on Sept. 14 as part of a fleet operation. The Navy said these USVs are […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force plans to make Skyborg–one of the service’s original Vanguard research and development efforts–a program of record in fiscal 2024, and for the Kratos [KTOS] […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Air Force and Navy are “working very closely” on a future autonomous drone program that works with manned aircraft, an Air Force official said this week. The […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—As the Air Force moves toward autonomous drones conducting missions with manned aircraft, variables such as cost and affordability, production capacity, capabilities, and how many vendors might initially […]

The Adaptive Airborne Enterprise (A2E) is the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) top acquisition priority, as the command seeks to move beyond its current intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance […]

The Navy is seeking participants for an upcoming 2024 event, called Silent Swarm, that will experiment with using swarming small unmanned systems of all types (UxS) to disrupt an opponent’s […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Conducting battle management from a cockpit or a command-and-control aircraft is nothing new but the coming introduction of long-range jet-powered drones that will work with manned platforms amid […]

A top Marine Corps official recently said the service is looking to deploy loitering munitions off on unmanned vessels, but the capability has not been tested yet. Speaking during the […]