Unmanned Systems

The Navy christened the first Snakehead Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV) prototype on Feb. 2 at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility in Newport, R.I. The event was led by […]

The Pentagon Office of Inspector General (OIG) plans a number of reviews related to the former Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and the current Operation Enduring Sentinel in Afghanistan and to the […]

U.S. drone manufacturer Skydio on Tuesday said it won a potential $99.8 million Army contract to provide its backpackable X2D quadcopter unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for the Short Range Reconnaissance […]

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Kurilla, the Biden administration’s nominee to become the new head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said on Feb. 8 that the military will use fifth-generation […]

Anduril Industries on Wednesday said it has acquired Dive Technologies, a small developer of autonomous underwater vehicle (UAV) technology for defense and commercial applications, in a deal that expands its […]

The Navy launched the biennial International Maritime Exercise (IMX) 2022 on Jan. 31 at the U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain The exercise consists of 50 ships, 9,000 personnel, 60 […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] delivered the first MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the Navy in the Integrated Functional Capability (IFC)-4 configuration on Feb. 1, the company said. The aircraft […]

The latest version of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, the MQ-8C, deployed for the first time aboard the Littoral Combat Ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) last month, the […]

U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) last week awarded Anduril Industries a nearly $1 billion contract, the company’s largest ever, to act as a systems integrator for the command’s counter-unmanned aircraft […]

The commander of 5th Fleet last week said the Navy is expanding unmanned operations under his command, leading up to the largest unmanned exercise in the world later this month. […]