Unmanned Systems

Navy officials this week confirmed the service will enact the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recommendations as it moves forward with the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) while noting […]

Kratos [KTOS] said on Nov. 3 that it recently flew a production XQ-58A Valkyrie aircraft at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. for the Block 2 Valkyrie maturation program. The test flight […]

Customs and Border Protection in October awarded contracts to four vendors to provide small drones for field evaluations to inform future procurements. The awards went to Vantage Robotics, Teal Drones, […]

The Navy issued a Request for Information (RFI) on Oct. 26 seeking information from industry, academia, and government research and development organizations on radars to be used on unmanned surface […]

The USS Jackson (LCS-6) Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship conducted over two dozen flight hours with the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle during a recent deployment in the Western Pacific […]

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) this week awarded contracts to four vendors to provide small drones for field evaluations to inform future procurements. The awards went to Vantage Robotics, Teal […]

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] on Wednesday said it has made a nearly $10 million investment in Seasats, a small company that has developed a long-endurance autonomous surface vessel (ASV), a deal […]

The Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System Office (JCO) plans to hold a demonstration next spring of industry capabilities in countering Group 3 UAS, which are those with a maximum gross […]

Held from Sept. 19 until Oct. 18, the U.S. Army Futures Command’s Project Convergence 2022 Technology Gateway experiment at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., featured technologies from 35 companies in the […]

A top Navy admiral said the service plans to keep unmanned surface vessels (USVs) with low to no intrinsic value or classified information kept aboard to protect against capture. “The […]