Unmanned Systems

While Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has posited a $20 million unit cost for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) and up to five CCAs for each manned F-35 or Next […]

Developing training around counter-drone systems and capabilities has proven to be the “most challenging” role of the relatively new Defense Department joint office that is overseeing the development of capabilities […]

An expendable drone developed by RTX [RTX] has proven critical in countering other unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in two combatant commands (COCOMs) but generally a system-of-systems approach is necessary to […]

The problems encountered by the U.S. Air Force earlier this year in shooting down a slow flying, high-altitude Chinese balloon have led the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to […]

The Army last week issued a Request for Information seeking solutions that can detect, track, identify and or defeat swarms of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and is planning to […]

DAYTON, Ohio–The U.S. Air Force needs to increase funding to modernize counter small unmanned aircraft systems (C-sUAS), a service official said this week. “In response to urgent operational needs, we […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) conducted a three-hour artificial intelligence (AI)-navigated sortie of the Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] XQ-58A Valkyrie drone at Florida’s Eglin Test and […]

The Department of Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) is seeking industry participants in a series of experiments to help the U.S. Pacific Fleet perform various missions better using unmanned […]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has used artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms developed for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)/U.S. Northern Command’s (NORTHCOM) Pathfinder initiative to identify drone targets, CENTCOM’s […]

As the U.S. Fourth Fleet starts practicing operationalizing unmanned systems, it is interested in ultimately getting watchstander data artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help sift through the added data coming […]