Unmanned Systems

The Unmanned Warrior exercise taking place this month off the coast of western Scotland has demonstrated the ability of unmanned vehicles in three domains and from multiple nations to collaborate, […]

The U.S. military is sending new technologies to Iraq in response to an increase in the use of commercially available unmanned aerial vehicles by Islamic State (ISIS) militants. Col. John […]

Over the next decade ground robots will steadily assume more diverse missions than the niche bomb disposal and intelligence-gathering duties they have performed for years, according to Army officials. Army […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has become the third company to receive a concept refinement contract for the U.S. Navy’s new MQ-25 program, which aims to develop a carrier-based […]

The U.S. Army plans to begin flight testing the new Improved Gray Eagle (IGE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) “before Christmas,” a service official said Oct. 5. The IGE is a […]

A Bell Helicopter [TXT] executive on Monday called on the Marine Corps to lay out specific requirements for its potential Group 5 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) procurement so the company […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT[ recently launched its Vector Hawk small unmanned aircraft from an unmanned submarine for the first time, the company said Sept. 28. During the test, which occurred at […]

The Navy has awarded two of the four contracts it plans to give industry for the recently revamped MQ-25 unmanned aircraft program. Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] received one-year […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), whose Gremlins program is developing an air-launched, air-recoverable unmanned air system, is nearing completion of the program’s first phase […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has unveiled a new program, Aerial Dragnet, which aims to develop technologies that provide a single, integrated picture of all small unmanned aerial […]