Unmanned (All Services)
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ArmyMattis To Congress, FAA: Military Needs More Authority To Shoot Down Drones Over Bases
Privately owned drones routinely violate restricted airspace over military bases, ships and airfields and the Pentagon wants more authority to shoot them down, Defense Secretary James Mattis on May 9 […]
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Navy/USMCLockheed Martin’s MQ-25 Has No Prototype, But An F-18 Engine
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Lockheed Martin [LMT] revealed Monday its MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based unmanned tanker offering does not have a completed prototype and will use the General Electric [GE] F404 […]
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Navy/USMCBoeing Shows Off MQ-25 Offering, Uses Global Hawk Engine
ST LOUIS, Mo. — Boeing [BA] showed off its MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based unmanned air system (UAS) offering to reporters at its facility here on Thursday and revealed it will use […]
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ArmyTwo Companies Share $400 Million Army Robot Development Contract
Two companies will share in a nearly half-billion-dollar contract for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of one the Army’s three future ground robot programs of record. QinetiQ North […]
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ArmyOlympics Drone Swarm Heightens Army Concerns Over Air Defense
During the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, a flock of 1,200 commercial drones made by Intel [INTC] formed a giant snowboarder that flew into […]
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ArmyOpen Architecture Future Vertical Lift Family Will Include Advanced UAS
Aside from developing a revolutionary new family of rotorcraft, the Army’s ongoing Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program includes building a next-generation unmanned aerial system that will fly in formation with […]
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UncategorizedNorthrop, DARPA Launching Open Architecture Drone Swarm
Northrop Grumman [NOC] is launching an open-architecture swarm of small drones and is inviting third-party participants to test small-unit tactics with the platform designed to rapidly develop technologies through “swarm […]
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Navy/USMCGeneral Atomics MQ-25 Team Includes Boeing
General Atomics’ Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) announced its MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker offering on Tuesday, which includes competitor Boeing [BA]. The company said it has designed a “purpose-built” Stingray […]
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Navy/USMCNavy PEO Explains Importance Of Unmanned Sensors, New Initiative To Add Capabilities Faster
National Harbor, Md. – The Navy’s program executive officer (PEO) for unmanned aviation and strike weapons told a conference here about the specific challenge his office has in providing unmanned […]
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Navy/USMCDARPA Transfers Sea Hunter To ONR, Will Continue Developing It
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) successfully completed its anti-submarine unmanned vessel program and officially transferred the technology demonstration vessel, called the Sea Hunter, to the Office of Naval […]