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 the system and a sensor package for littoral operations in South ...

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 said Wednesday. “We’ve always had a defense in depth approach to defending the fleet. Where we� ...

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 $35.5 million 2017 contract from the Office of Naval Research. Work primarily occurred  on the ...

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 launching of an Area-I ALTIUS-600 small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) from the Valkyrie’s ...

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 the deal were not disclosed. Area-I, which is based in the Atlanta area, has 73 employees. Area-I has three ...

The private equity firm J.F. Lehman & Company on Wednesday said it has made a “substantial investment” in Trillium Engineering, a small developer and provider of gimbaled camera systems for small unmanned aircraft systems. The amount of the investment wasn’t disclosed. Trillium, which is ...