Unmanned Systems
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Business/FinancialAeroVironment Expands Manufacturing Capacity, UAS Products, With ESAero Acquisition
AeroVironment [AVAV] on Monday said it has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (ESAero) in a $200 million deal that adds manufacturing, design and prototyping capacity, complimentary expertise in electric and […]
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ArmyAnduril Nabs $20 Billion Army Award For Enterprise-Wide Counter-Drone Solutions
The Army on Friday awarded Anduril Industries a $20 billion contract for hardware and software to meet the service’s “unified, mission-ready” operational and business needs for common counter-drone command-and-control (C2) […]
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Unmanned SystemsCounter-Drone Needs Will Be Addressed In Next NDAA Based On Iran War Lessons, Banks Says
A Republican senator on Armed Services Committee on Thursday said that defending against Iranian drones has been challenge for U.S. warfighters and will be an area of focus in the […]
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Navy/USMCAnduril Nabs First Spot In DIU’s XLUUV Prototype Effort, Aims To Avoid Orca Pitfalls
Anduril Industries on Thursday announced it was selected for the Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform Project (CAMP) and will begin a long-duration demonstration of its Dive-XL autonomous […]
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Unmanned SystemsUkrainian Defense Companies Moving To All Domestic Production Of Components
Representatives of Ukrainian drone, counter-drone, and defense tech companies said this week that they are reducing their dependence on Chinese components significantly, as Ukraine builds its domestic supplier base. Some […]
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Business/FinancialHavoc Adds Air, Land Domains To Its Collaborative Autonomy Solutions With Two Acquisitions
Havoc, which has been focused on applying its collaborative autonomy technology to unmanned surface vessels (USVs), on Wednesday said it has acquired two companies that give it an entrée in […]
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Unmanned SystemsDrone Dominance Program Round Two Likely To Include More Complex Missions
The Drone Dominance program is to expand beyond the three missions in the first round–finding stationary targets by four drones at 2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 kilometers in a non-jamming […]
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Unmanned SystemsUkraine Only Country That Can Provide ‘Immediate Counter-Action’ Against Shahed Drones, Ambassador Says
The U.S. should take immediate advantage of in-person Ukrainian counter-drone expertise to defeat kamikaze drones in Iran and elsewhere, according to the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. “When the first […]
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Unmanned SystemsDrone Dominance Program Selects 11 Finalists For Potential Orders After First Gauntlet
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance program last week selected 11 companies to receive prototype orders under the first phase of a two-year effort to equip warfighters with hundreds of thousands of […]
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Unmanned SystemsJIATF 401, FAA Plan Weekend Test Of Army High Energy Laser For Countering Drones
The Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) 401 and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) the weekend of March 7 and 8 planned to test an Army high-energy laser (HEL) to assess […]