:

Unmanned Systems

DIU Seeks Platforms For Magnetic Data Collection To Support Precision Navigation

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, January 9th, 2026

SHARE:

DIU Seeks Platforms For Magnetic Data Collection To Support Precision Navigation

SPH Engineering's MagDrone R1 portable magnetometer attached to a quadcopter UAS. Photo: SPH Engineering

The Defense Innovation Unit last Friday issued a solicitation seeking prototype solutions for airborne magnetic data collection platforms that would support the development of magnetic map data as an alternative to GPS in open ocean transit. The aim of the multi-year, multi-phase Geomagnetic Airborne Unmanned Survey System (GAUSS) project is to obtain solutions for “mature technology demonstrations that provide magnetic map data to enable operational magnetic navigation of trans-oceanic distances,” DIU said on Jan. 9. The GAUSS initiative expects that…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]