Unmanned Systems

The Army has plans to team robotic ground vehicles with M1 Abrams tanks in much the same way it has already done with AH-64 Apache helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles. […]

The Navy plans to begin testing the MQ-8C, a new, larger variant of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] Fire Scout unmanned surveillance helicopter, aboard the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in late […]

FLIR Systems [FLIR] on Wednesday said it has acquired Norway’s Prox Dynamics in a $134 million cash deal that gives it a position as a developer and producer of micro-unmanned […]

The U.S. Defense Department’s Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) will sponsor an event early next year to evaluate counter-drone tools and promote industry cooperation in the sector, an agency official […]

The U.S. Navy formally stood up its first squadron for the MQ-4C Triton unmanned surveillance plane during an Oct. 28 ceremony at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida. The creation […]

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, is urging the Pentagon to speed up efforts to defend against the growing threat posed by hostile unmanned […]

The Army is set to produce the Leader-Follower unmanned driving capability by 2024, Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Daniel Allyn said Thursday. Allyn described Leader-Follower as a system with a […]

The Army and Navy are on the cusp of fielding unmanned robotic systems in a variety of roles, but for the systems to gain a wide foothold in military operations, […]

The U.S. Navy plans to conduct an industry competition for the Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) in the current fiscal year, according to a service official. In September, the […]

The Office of Naval Research (ONR), whose Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) program has been experimenting with flying swarms of small unmanned aerial vehicles, plans to begin integrating payloads on such drones […]