North Carolina’s Blue Force Technologies said on Jan. 25 that it has ground tested a “novel carbon fiber composite propulsion flowpath system” for the small business’ Fury unmanned fighter under AFRL’s Bandit program, which seeks to develop fifth-generation drones to ...

The Navy plans to hold a virtual industry day on Feb. 23 as it seeks to use contractor owned,  contractor operated (COCO) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) purposes. According to a notice published Jan. 23, Naval Air Systems Command intends to � ...

Defense technology company Epirus on Monday said it received a $66.1 million Army contract to provide four prototypes of its Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) counter-drone system for field evaluations that if successful the company expects will lead to a program of record and potentially ...

The Coast Guard last week issued its second Request for Information for a small and medium-size commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) as part of ongoing market research and to learn more about sensors and payloads. “The state of the UAS commercial marketplace is rapidly changing, and the USCG ...

Boeing‘s [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences plans to fly an Active Flow Control (AFC) demonstrator in 2025 under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. Boeing, Lockheed Martin [LMT], and BAE Systems have ...

Experiments with Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (MUSVs) have helped push the Navy to more securely see the value in the vessels as “advantageous” going forward, a service officer said last week While the Navy has been confident in using Large USVs as an “adjunct magazine capacity,” Rear ...