The U.S. Air Force is weighing the timelines for the retirement of Block 40 RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance drones by Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the fielding of a classified replacement system. The Air Force Global Hawk fleet has consisted of four Block 20 RQ-4s, 20 Block 30s and 10 Block 40 ...
Unmanned Systems
The Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center (RDC) is planning a new set of evaluations of unmanned surface vessel (USV) technology to examine the ability of autonomous systems to avoid collisions at sea and conduct additional missions. The Coast Guard is working with Sea Machines to ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced on June 7 that its Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program recently demonstrated a counter unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) solution at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida that can target multiple drones with high levels of autonomy and no ...
Insitu, a Boeing [BA] subsidiary, has formed a partnership with two Norwegian companies, Robot Aviation and Andøya Space, to build an unmanned aviation ecosystem made for the Arctic and High North, the company announced in a June 8 press release. “The Arctic is a place where one of the world& ...
The Defense Department’s second Ghost Fleet Overlord Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) completed a long-range autonomous transit from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast, passing through the Panama Canal, the Pentagon said Monday. This USV, named Nomad, is the second of two Overlord USV test ships ...
The Boeing [BA] MQ-25A test asset, called T-1, conducted the first ever unmanned tanker to manned aircraft aerial refueling operation last week, the Navy announced June 7. This flight demonstration proved the MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned tanker can fulfill its stated role using the ...