Unmanned Systems

This month the Navy finished the deployment of its last Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) maritime variant of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS). […]

The future Combat Collaborative Aircraft (CCA) may have a role in future U.S. Air Force jamming missions, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown said on June 22. […]

Navy shipbuilder HII [HII] this week announced the successful demonstration of a capability allowing amphibious ships to launch and recover Large-Diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (LDUUVs). The company’s San Antonio-class amphibious […]

Defense technology startup Shield AI has closed a $165 million funding round that the company said will be used to accelerate the development artificial intelligence (AI) pilots, including in degraded […]

The Navy’s five Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUVs) are planned to carry a large payload module once it is active and the service is also buying a sixth […]

Companies participating in a demonstration last month of their respective ground-based high-power microwave (HPM) solutions to counter small drones had varying degrees of success, the team lead for the testing […]

The Navy last month issued a Request For Information (RFI) seeking industry feedback on developing systems for the Mining Expendable Delivery Unmanned Submarine Asset (MEDUSA) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) and […]

This week the CEO of HII [HII] said the company’s selection for the Navy’s Lionfish Small Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (SUUV) allows it to expand international sales. In March, the Navy […]

Anduril Industries said this week it is partnering with the Australian Defense Force on a $100 million effort for Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XL-AUVs) for the Royal Australian Navy. […]

Navy officials recently said the future F/A-XX aircraft will be the “quarterback” of a carrier-based manned-unmanned aircraft teaming concept in the future aircraft carrier-based Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft […]