Unmanned Systems

The Navy in January agreed to support the Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center (RDC) in the storage and maintenance of optionally manned and unmanned service vessels (USVs), giving the […]

A top U.S. Air Force official has broached allowing allies to use intellectual property for defense articles to ramp up their production overseas. “We are going to need to figure […]

The private equity firm Highlander Partners on Tuesday said it has acquired Black Sage Technologies, a developer and provider of counter-drone solutions that are vendor agnostic and are designed for […]

North Carolina’s Blue Force Technologies said on Jan. 25 that it has ground tested a “novel carbon fiber composite propulsion flowpath system” for the small business’ Fury unmanned fighter under […]

The Navy plans to hold a virtual industry day on Feb. 23 as it seeks to use contractor owned,  contractor operated (COCO) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for intelligence, surveillance and […]

Defense technology company Epirus on Monday said it received a $66.1 million Army contract to provide four prototypes of its Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) counter-drone system for field evaluations that […]

The Coast Guard last week issued its second Request for Information for a small and medium-size commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) as part of ongoing market research and to learn […]

Boeing‘s [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences plans to fly an Active Flow Control (AFC) demonstrator in 2025 under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel […]

Experiments with Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (MUSVs) have helped push the Navy to more securely see the value in the vessels as “advantageous” going forward, a service officer said last […]

Simulating the high heat and speed of hypersonic systems is key for Massachusetts’ Draper Laboratory in its work on the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Mayhem program. A Leidos [LDOS] […]