Unmanned (All Services)
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Navy/USMCHII Unveils Newest Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, Remus 620
HII [HII] on Monday unveiled its newest medium-class unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), the REMUS 620. The company underscored the new UUV is a second generation medium-class UUV with the same […]
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Navy/USMCNavy “Focused” On Torpedo-Tube Medium UUVs, Turning Subs Into Motherships
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 […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Officials Confirm XLUUV To Enact GAO Recommendations
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 […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Looks To Test USV Hazard Avoidance Radars
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 […]
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Navy/USMC5th Fleet USVs Keep Unclassified Tech, ‘No Intrinsic Value’ To Limit Capture Damage
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 […]
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Navy/USMC5th Fleet Commander Details 100 USV Middle East Plan For 2023
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) […]
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Navy/USMCDIU Awards Nauticus Robotics And Greensea Systems Contracts To Prototype Mine Clearing Drones
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) recently awarded contracts to Nauticus Robotics [KITT] and Greensea Systems to compete on prototypes to help the Marine Corps clear shallow water mines as they […]
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Navy/USMCGAO Finds Navy’s XLUUVs Years Behind Schedule And Over Budget
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 […]
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Navy/USMCONR Tests Unmanned Technologies To Help Find Illicit Maritime Cargo
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 […]
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Unmanned SystemsGeneral Atomics Conducts Autonomous AI Flight With MQ-20A
General Atomics’ Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) conducted a completely autonomous flight test using an artificial intelligence (AI) pilot on an MQ-20A Avenger unmanned aircraft system (UAS) on Sept. 12, the […]
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