unmanned systems

Navy officials this week said they are working on developing medium unmanned undersea vehicles (MUUVs) that can be be launched and recovered from submarine torpedo tubes, making submarines motherships. The […]

Navy officials this week confirmed the service will enact the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recommendations as it moves forward with the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) while noting […]

The Navy issued a Request for Information (RFI) on Oct. 26 seeking information from industry, academia, and government research and development organizations on radars to be used on unmanned surface […]

The USS Jackson (LCS-6) Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship conducted over two dozen flight hours with the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle during a recent deployment in the Western Pacific […]

A top Navy admiral said the service plans to keep unmanned surface vessels (USVs) with low to no intrinsic value or classified information kept aboard to protect against capture. “The […]

The commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet recently detailed how the U.S. Navy and its allies in the Middle East are planning to collectively have 100 unmanned surface vessels (USVs) […]

Kaman Corp. [KAMN] said on Oct. 10 that it was chosen to build a prototype logistics Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) for the Marine Corps based on its commercial KARGO UAV […]

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded Boeing [BA] a $47 million advance acquisition contract on Sept. 28 to prepare to build and deliver the low-rate initial production (LRIP) Lot […]

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Wednesday found the Navy’s Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) program is at least three years late and 64 percent more expensive […]

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring the SCOUT initiative and recently conducted an experiment to figure out how to better detect illicit maritime cargo and drug-running using unmanned […]