Unmanned Systems

The Navy is not currently considering adding hypersonic missiles to Large Unmanned Surface Vehicles (LUSV), but the service may consider that after initial testing from the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) in […]

HII [HII] and Ocean Aero announced the start of a strategic agreement that seeks to advance capabilities of both companies’ unmanned maritime platforms and autonomous software solutions, respectively. Following the […]

While Kratos [KTOS] annually builds 150 drones, including its Valkyrie XQ-58A, the company could double or triple such production now with existing plants to meet possible surge demands, a company […]

U.S. Naval Forces Central Command started the largest maritime exercises in the Middle East on Sunday, International Maritime Exercise (IMX) and Cutlass Express (CE) 2023.  The CE23 portion of the […]

U.S. Air Forces Central’s (AFCENT) Task Force 99 (TF 99) unit at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar began short-range drone intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance flight tests this month, and Air […]

Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] on Tuesday said its venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in Hidden Level, Inc., a developer of passive radio frequency (RF) sensing technology to […]

The U.S. Air Force is nearing an initial postulation of the numbers/ratios of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) to accompany the service’s future force presentation construct for the sixth-generation manned Next […]

Austal USA delivered the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transport USNS Apalachicola (EPF-13) to the Navy on Feb. 16. Delivery followed after the ship previously completed acceptance trials and Unmanned Logistics Prototype […]

A Navy solicitation showed the service is testing systems that can be used for an Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) mine sweeping swarm capability. According to the solicitation, posted Feb. 10, […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Air Force Test Center, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) held 12 artificial intelligence (AI)-driven flight tests last December at […]