Unmanned Systems
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Budget
Collins Slams Army’s Decision To Cancel Robotic Combat Vehicle
The chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday knocked the Army’s recent decision to cancel a robotic ground vehicle program that she said is a testament to the innovation […]
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Business/Financial
Anduril Offers Autonomous Air Vehicles, Rocket Motors To Europe In Partnership With Rheinmetall
Anduril Industries is offering its Barracuda and Fury air vehicles to Europe through a partnership with Germany’s Rheinmetall, which will provide its digital platform that will integrate the autonomous air […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
General Atomics Simulates Live Shootdown Using MQ-20 UAS Equipped With AI Pilot
An MQ-20 Avenger unmanned combat aerial vehicle equipped with artificial intelligence-based flight software successfully simulated an autonomous shootdown of live aircraft earlier this month, General Atomics (GA) and Shield AI […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Mach Industries Closes $100 Million Round To Scale Production Operations
Mach Industries on Tuesday said it has closed a $100 million Series B round that will be used to scale production of its strike and other platforms, and small turbine […]
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International
Australia Test Teams Up Ghost Bat Drones With E-7A Wedgetail Aircraft
Australia on Monday said that it demonstrated pairing two MQ-28A Ghost Bat drones controlled from an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft. The Australian Ministry of Defense explained that during the test out […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Ursa Major Gets Largest Contract To Date In $33 Million Order By Stratolaunch For Hadley Engines
Propulsion developer and manufacturer Ursa Major on Monday said it has received a $32.9 million contact from Stratolaunch to provide 16 upgraded Hadley engines that the aerospace vehicle testing company […]
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Navy/USMC
GAO Says Navy To Merge MUSV and LUSV Programs, Skeptical XLUUV To Become Program Of Record
The Navy plans to merge the programs for the Large and Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels (LUSV and MUSV) into a single autonomous surface craft program while delays to the Orca […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
GD, AWS Demonstrate Integrated AI, Cloud Solution For Aerial Threats
For the second time in less than a year, General Dynamics’ [GD] Information Technologies division and Amazon Web Services [AMZN] demonstrated an integrated artificial intelligence and cloud computing solution to […]
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Space
Redwire Closes $925 Million Acquisition Of Edge Autonomy, Adding UAS Tech
Redwire Corp. [RDW] last Friday completed its $925 million acquisition of Edge Autonomy, taking the space technology company into the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) business. Redwire announced the deal in […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
Shield AI’s V-BAT Continues Operations In Support Of Ukrainian Forces, Tseng Says
Ever since the successful use of the V-BAT aircraft in spotting and targeting a Russian air defense system last August in support of Ukrainian forces, the Shield AI-developed unmanned system […]