Unmanned Systems

Technical issues have forced the Navy to push back limited production of its planned high endurance unmanned aerial vehicle for maritime surveillance by at least a year. In rolling out […]

AeroVironment Inc.(AVAV) yesterday said it received $13.8 million in incremental funding on March 30 from the Army for continued performance of a contract action with a not-to-exceed value of $65.5 […]

General Dynamics [GD] Advanced Information Systems yesterday said it has successfully completed the critical design review for Knifefish, the surface-mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle (SMCM UUV), one month ahead of […]

The Congressional Budget Office yesterday released a report that said there are better options for the Army’s desired new $29 billion Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) after evaluating four alternatives. “Although […]

Seeking public comment on its proposed privacy policy for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday will host an online public engagement session to overview the […]

The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $433.5 million cost-plus-firm-fixed-fee contract for contractor logistics support for the RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), according to a March 25 […]

The Navy has ordered six of the latest Fire Scout unmanned helicopters that feature a larger airframe than those already deployed with the fleet are intended to fly and remain […]

The Navy is about a month away from releasing its request for proposals (RFP) for the aircraft carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle designed for surveillance and strike, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] in February completed a successful exchange of radar data during a flight test involving the Air Force’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS, JSTARS) […]

Finmeccanica’s AgustaWestland this week took the wraps off its Project Zero—a tiltrotor technology demonstrator already secretly flown over the past two years. The demonstrator was designed and built in less […]