Unmanned (All Services)
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ArmyArmy To Industry: Help Us Team Drones With Helicopters And Tanks
In keeping with the Army’s new spirit of outreach to industry, the service wants to know what the private sector can do to better team drones with manned aircraft. The […]
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PentagonNew Military Bases Added To List of No-Drone Zones
Responding to a request to enhance unmanned aircraft flight restrictions over military bases, the FAA recently made the airspace over three new Defense Department facilities no-drone zones and extended the […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Disestablishes DASN Unmanned Systems
The U.S. Navy has disestablished the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems (DASN UxS) a mere two and a half years after standing it up in October […]
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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 […]