Unmanned Systems
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Air ForceLarger Drones Have Role in AFCENT Experiments, Commander Says
Larger unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have a role to play in experiments by U.S. Air Forces Central’s (AFCENT) Task Force-99 (TF-99), the AFCENT commander said on Feb. 13. Asked at […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDARPA Exploring Use of Drone Swarms Under AMASS Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring the future U.S. use of autonomous drone swarms against high-tech adversaries under the agency’s Autonomous Multi-Domain Adaptive Swarms-of-Swarms (AMASS) program. Responses […]
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Navy/USMCMK 18 Mod 2 Underwater Drone Program Production Finished
The Navy said on Feb. 3 that production of the MK 18 Mod 2 Kingfish Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) program of record has completed. MK 18 Mod 2 production started […]
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Unmanned SystemsNavy To Help Coast Guard Support Unmanned Vessels
The Navy in January agreed to support the Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center (RDC) in the storage and maintenance of optionally manned and unmanned service vessels (USVs), giving the […]
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Air ForceUSAF Official Proposes Leasing Intellectual Property to Allies to Ramp Up Production
A top U.S. Air Force official has broached allowing allies to use intellectual property for defense articles to ramp up their production overseas. “We are going to need to figure […]
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Business/FinancialPrivate Equity Firm Highlander Adds To C-UAS Platform With Black Sage Acquisition
The private equity firm Highlander Partners on Tuesday said it has acquired Black Sage Technologies, a developer and provider of counter-drone solutions that are vendor agnostic and are designed for […]
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Air ForceAFRL Bandit Adversary Air Program Ground Tests New Propulsion System by Blue Force Technologies
North Carolina’s Blue Force Technologies said on Jan. 25 that it has ground tested a “novel carbon fiber composite propulsion flowpath system” for the small business’ Fury unmanned fighter under […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Holding Industry Day For Contractor Owned/Operated Drones
The Navy plans to hold a virtual industry day on Feb. 23 as it seeks to use contractor owned, contractor operated (COCO) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance and […]
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Unmanned SystemsEpirus Nabs Key Army Award To Provide Leonidas Prototypes To Counter-Drone Swarms
Defense technology company Epirus on Monday said it received a $66.1 million Army contract to provide four prototypes of its Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) counter-drone system for field evaluations that […]
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Homeland SecurityCoast Guard Continues To Survey Market For Group II And III UAS
The Coast Guard last week issued its second Request for Information for a small and medium-size commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) as part of ongoing market research and to learn […]