Unmanned Systems
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Unmanned SystemsJCO Completes First C-sUAS Demonstration
The Defense Department’s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) tested counter-small unmanned aircraft systems (C-sUAS) from Aurora Flight Sciences, ELTA North America, and XTEND during its first semi-annual demonstration […]
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Navy/USMCMoton: USV/UUV Development Tests Acquisition Strategies, Building Autonomy Library
The Navy’s top unmanned systems official emphasized this week the service is testing different acquisition strategies while it looks to take various autonomy pieces for a larger library and not […]
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Unmanned SystemsAFRL Requests Proposals For $500 Million C-sUAS Technology Program
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is requesting proposals for the development of counter unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) capabilities that will be used against commercial drones being used by adversaries, […]
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Navy/USMC
Moton Lays Out Development Pillars Of USVs
The head of the Navy unmanned systems office on Tuesday explained how the system engineering for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) is focused in six pillars and in sync with the […]
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Homeland SecurityDHS S&T Awards Charles River Analytics $1M to Develop Autonomous Drones to Inspect for Dirty Bombs
Charles River Analytics has received a $1 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to further leverage the research and development company’s expertise in autonomous navigation to develop drones […]
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InternationalNorthrop Grumman Demonstrates Optionally-Manned Firebird Aircraft In Maritime Envirionment
Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently completed a three-week, nearly 9,000-mile roadshow of its Firebird optionally-manned autonomous long-endurance aircraft across the U.S. that wrapped up with a maritime domain awareness demonstration of […]
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Navy/USMCCNO: Lasers On Carriers, USVs May Defend Against Chinese Missiles
The Navy is considering basing laser weapons from aircraft carriers and unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to help protect naval groups from Chinese missiles in the future, the service’s top officer […]
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Navy/USMC
Leidos Delivers Seahawk USV To Navy
Leidos [LDOS] finished the delivery of the Seahawk autonomous medium displacement unmanned surface vehicle (MDUSV) to the Navy, the company announced April 7. The company built the vessel via a […]
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Air ForceSixth Flight Test of XQ-58A Valkyrie Features First Weapons Bay Release
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on March 26 conducted the sixth flight test of the Kratos [KTOS] XQ-58A Valkyrie drone at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz.–a demonstration that featured the […]
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Business/FinancialAnduril Acquires UAS Developer Area-I
Anduril Industries on Thursday said it has acquired Area-I in a deal that builds out its line of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with fixed-wing aircraft and related technologies. Terms of […]
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