Unmanned (All Services)
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Navy/USMC
Lockheed 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/USMC
Boeing 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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Army
Two 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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Army
Olympics 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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Army
Open 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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Northrop, 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/USMC
General 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/USMC
Navy 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/USMC
DARPA 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 […]
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Navy/USMC
Textron And U.S. Navy To Test Offensive Weapons On Unmanned Surface Vehicle
Textron [TXT] and the U.S. Navy have agreed to develop and integrate new offensive and other payloads on the company’s unmanned surface vehicle, the company told Defense Daily in an […]