Unmanned (All Services)

The Navy launched the biennial International Maritime Exercise (IMX) 2022 on Jan. 31 at the U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain The exercise consists of 50 ships, 9,000 personnel, 60 […]

The commander of 5th Fleet last week said the Navy is expanding unmanned operations under his command, leading up to the largest unmanned exercise in the world later this month. […]

The Navy on Tuesday said it successfully completed underwater explosion shock testing (UNDEX) for its newest unmanned minesweeper, the Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS). The UISS is an Unmanned Surface […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded contracts to Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Martin Defense Group to move to Phase 2 of the Manta Ray unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) […]

The Navy said Tuesday that it conducted a ground-breaking and ribbon-cutting ceremony for facilities that aim to be the focus of testing new unmanned surface and undersea vehicles. Two facilities, […]

The Navy is planning to host a workshop in February with industry and academia to explore and better understand the state of unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) system capabilities and identify […]

The Navy Department is preparing to host a new set of unmanned prize challenge competitions Nov. 16 -19 it advertises as “Blue Angles for geeks,”  that aims to help accelerate […]

The Navy’s latest future aviation vision plans expects the service to save $300 million annually due to a maintenance effort and leaves out earlier consideration of adding a light carrier […]

There is promise in Navy unmanned systems from capabilities to cost savings, but the Senate Armed Services Committee is wary of putting the “cart ahead of the horse” in various […]

The Navy’s new Middle East-based unmanned integration task force completed its first exercise with U.S. and Bahrain naval forces this week. U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) completed exercise New […]