Unmanned (All Services)
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Navy/USMCNavy Looking At More Unmanned Aircraft Types For Future Carrier Air Wing
The Navy is developing several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as it works on the air wing of the future for aircraft carriers beyond the unmanned carrier-based tanker it expects to […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Demonstrates New Prototype MCM Technology On MQ-8C
The Navy recently demonstrated the prototype Single-system Multi-mission Airborne Mine Detection (SMAMD) System mine countermeasure (MCM) technology aboard an MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aircraft. The SMAMD demonstration was used on […]
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Navy/USMCBerger: Next Amphibs Likely Work With Unmanned Systems, Smaller
The Commandant of the Marine Corps on Thursday said he thinks the next major L-class amphibious ships will likely be smaller and be partially built around interacting with unmanned systems. […]
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Navy/USMCBAMS-D Global Hawk Ends 13-Year Navy Deployment
This month the Navy finished the deployment of its last Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) maritime variant of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS). […]
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Navy/USMCHII Tests LDUUV Launch And Recovery Capability
Navy shipbuilder HII [HII] this week announced the successful demonstration of a capability allowing amphibious ships to launch and recover Large-Diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (LDUUVs). The company’s San Antonio-class amphibious […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Orca XLUUV To Carry 34-Foot Payload Module, Buying 6th Test Vessel
The Navy’s five Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUVs) are planned to carry a large payload module once it is active and the service is also buying a sixth […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Unmanned Task Force Using Venture Capital Model For Technology Investments, Seeks To Field New Tech Within Five Years
The Navy’s Unmanned Task Force (UTF) has spent its first months developing a sort of venture capital model to choose promising technologies useful for warfighter problems that can be delivered […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Conducting Market Research On MEDUSA Mining UUV
The Navy last month issued a Request For Information (RFI) seeking industry feedback on developing systems for the Mining Expendable Delivery Unmanned Submarine Asset (MEDUSA) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) and […]
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InternationalAnduril Partners With Australia On Autonomous Undersea Vehicles
Anduril Industries said this week it is partnering with the Australian Defense Force on a $100 million effort for Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XL-AUVs) for the Royal Australian Navy. […]
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CNO Unsure If Navy Will Need MUSVs, Explains Retiring Ground-Based Growlers
The Chief of Naval Operations on Thursday said he was unsure if the future force would need a Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel at all and separately explained why the fiscal […]