Unmanned Systems
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Business/FinancialSAIC Continues Counter-Drone Support For DoD With Air Force Contract
Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] this week said it won a new $90 million contract with the Air Force to continue to provide U.S. military forces with support for counter-small […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologySkyborg Program Conducts Another Test of Autonomy System on Different Drone
The U.S. Air Force’s Skyborg program–one of four service Vanguard efforts–conducted a two hour and thirty minute flight test on June 24 of the Skyborg autonomy core system (ACS) aboard […]
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Air ForceHouse Defense Appropriators Advise Restart of Air Force MQ-9 Buy, Add Six Reapers
While the U.S. Air Force requested no funding for General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drones in fiscal 2022, the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel’s (HAC-D) version of the FY 2022 Defense […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyAutonomous, AI-Enabled Tracking of Mobile Targets Demonstrated, As DoD Commits to Ethical AI Principles
The Pentagon recently demonstrated autonomous, artifical intelligence (AI)-enabled tracking of mobile targets–an effort simultaneous with other such AI drone projects and DoD’s development of principles for ethical AI use, a […]
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Unmanned SystemsIsraeli MoD Uses Airborne Laser to Counter Drones
The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) performed tests of an airborne high-powered laser system from Elbit Systems [ESLT] to take down multiple unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs), the MoD announced in […]
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Homeland SecurityCoast Guard Planning New Round of USV Evaluations
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 […]
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Homeland SecurityBriefing
Dedrone says it has sold over 1,000 of its DedroneSensors used in the detection, identification and location of drones to customers in 33 countries and has deployed more than 700 […]
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Unmanned SystemsAir Force Weighs Planned Global Hawk Block 40 Retirements and Replacement Fielding
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 […]
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Homeland Security
Coast Guard Setting Up New Round Of USV Tech Demonstrations
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 […]
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Unmanned SystemsDARPA Demos Autonomous C-UAS System to Target Multiple Drones
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 […]