Unmanned Systems
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Business/FinancialX-Bow Providing Rocket Assisted Takeoff Kit For AEVEX Long-Range Loitering Munition
X-Bow Systems has entered a new end market with a new tool in its quiver, receiving a $12.2 million contract from AEVEX to produce rocket-assisted takeoff (RATO) kits to launch […]
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Business/FinancialPowerus, DFT Team To Deliver Enhanced Drone Interceptors
Powerus has partnered with Digital Force Technologies (DFT) to leverage DFT’s sensor fusion platform to strengthen the capabilities of its interceptor drones for countering threats posed by fast-moving one-way attack […]
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Air ForceUSAF Requests $5 Billion for F-47 In FY ’27, $1.5 Billion Increase
Out of the more than $150 billion in fiscal 2026 reconciliation funding, the U.S. Air Force received a $400 million boost to move Boeing [BA]’s future F-47 stealth fighter to […]
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Unmanned SystemsDoD’s Drone Dominance Programs Opens Lethality Prize Challenge For Group 1 UAS
To jumpstart the munitions payload ecosystem for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program has initiated a prize challenge for lethal payloads, according to an April 2 […]
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Navy/USMCCaudle Sees Frustration In Navy MUSV Changes, Previews Containerization Plan
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) on Tuesday acknowledged industry’s frustration with changing Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) plans after the latest switch from the Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC) […]
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Unmanned SystemsRed Cat Adds Swarming Autonomy Developer Apium To Portfolio
Red Cat Holdings [RCAT] on Monday said it has acquired Apium Swarm Robotics in a deal that adds a distributed swarming autonomy capability for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and unmanned […]
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Business/FinancialAutonomous Vessel Developer Saronic Raises $1.8 Billion To Accelerate Production, Add Capacity
Leveraging demand for unmanned systems, Saronic Technologies on Tuesday said it has raised $1.75 billion in a new funding round that the company will use to accelerate production and deliveries […]
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Air ForceStrikes On AWACS And KC-135s At Prince Sultan Put Spotlight On Base Defense
Last July at the inaugural LANDEURO conference in Wiesebaden, Germany, Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, now the commander of Ukraine’s unmanned forces, told the audience that he had recently visited a NATO […]
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Air ForceTo Help Meet USAF Demand, PBS Aerospace Plans To More Than Double Small Turbojet Engine Capacity
PBS Aerospace, the U.S. subsidiary of the Czech-based PBS Group, plans to increase its production capacity for turbojet engines from 2,000 this year to 5,000 next year at its Roswell, […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Changes MUSV Plans Again, Cancelling MASC And Switches To Marketplace Family Of Systems Approach
The Navy’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Robotic and Autonomous Systems (PAE RAS) on Thursday announced it was cancelling the Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC) medium-sized Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) program […]
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