Unmanned (All Services)
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Navy/USMCMQ-25 Award Covers 72 Vehicles, Moves Up IOC
The Navy late Thursday said that the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker program intends to eventually deliver 72 aircraft after the initial four test aircraft and the program is accelerating the […]
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UncategorizedNew DoD Unmanned Systems Report Maps Future Interoperability And Open Architecture Efforts
A new Defense Department report sketched out how it plans to increase the use of open architecture (OA) and modularity in unmanned systems over the next 25 years, starting by […]
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Navy/USMCInsitu Wins $54 Million Contract For Four New Blackjack UAS
The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) awarded Boeing’s [BA] Insitu Inc. a $54 million contract on Tuesday to produce four full-rate production Lot II RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) […]
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Unmanned SystemsArmy Taps Raytheon Drone-Radar Combo For Urgent Counter-UAS Capability
The U.S. Army will use Raytheon’s [RTN] Coyote unmanned aircraft system and the KRFS radar, as a near-term counter-unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capability to protect deployed units from enemy drones. Raytheon has delivered 40 […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Plans to Accelerate UUVs, Changing Acquisition Strategies
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s report on the annual defense appropriations bill revealed major changes to the acquisition strategies of the large displacement and extra large unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV and […]
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Navy/USMCNavy’s Unmanned Helicopter Completes Operational Shipboard Test
The Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1) finished the first comprehensive operational test of its new shipboard unmanned helicopter late last month, the service said on Monday. Initial […]
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Navy/USMCOfficials Says Fully Automated Mine Countermeasure Vessels Still A Long Way Off, Updates Current Progress
Although unmanned programs are developing quickly, the Navy is not close to fully automated systems like a single stride counter-mine vessel, according to a service official. Howard Berkof, deputy program […]
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Navy/USMC
Streamlining Acquisition Is Working, Unmanned Navy Official Says
The deputy program manager for the Navy’s unmanned maritime systems program office said the service is streamlining and quickening acquisition as the service acquisitions chief’s strategy of pushing responsibilities down […]
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Navy/USMCRobotic Rotorcraft Brain Resupplies US Marines During Live Exercise
During a recent exercise in California, Marines at a simulated combat outpost were resupplied by a robotic rotorcraft that could locate, fly to and land at their position without human […]
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Unmanned SystemsMarines Want Shipboard VTOL Drone For $20 Million A Copy
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Currently the only U.S. military service without a high-end unmanned aircraft, the U.S. Marine Corps is in the market for a high-altitude long-endurance drone that can launch […]