Unmanned (All Services)

The Italian corporations Fincantieri and Leonardo said recently they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop systems to help protect underwater infrastructure. The companies said the Oct. 27 MoU […]

Bollinger Shipyards this week announced the most recent Navy order for Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vessels (MCM USV) covers four more vehicles, bringing the current total under contract to seven. […]

The Navy recently awarded HII [HII] a Lionfish small unmanned undersea vehicle (SUUV) contract potentially worth up to $347 million over five years. Naval Sea Systems Command announced on Oct. […]

The Marine Corps recently conducted the first flight test of the Kratos Defense and Security Solutions’ [KTOS] XQ-58A Valkyrie autonomous low-cost unmanned air vehicle in support of a program that […]

The Secretary of the Navy last week announced the creation of a new Disruptive Capabilities Office (DCO) aimed at helping push new technology to the fleet more quickly to help […]

A member of a National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board (TRP) told a congressional panel this week that the Coast Guard has only made partial progress on recommendations it […]

The Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle reached a Navy declaration of initial operating capability (IOC) on Aug. 3 and the aircraft are back in Guam for another […]

The U.S. 4th Fleet deployed 10 Saildrone Voyager Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) via commercial operators on Sept. 14 as part of a fleet operation. The Navy said these USVs are […]

The Navy is seeking participants for an upcoming 2024 event, called Silent Swarm, that will experiment with using swarming small unmanned systems of all types (UxS) to disrupt an opponent’s […]

A top Marine Corps official recently said the service is looking to deploy loitering munitions off on unmanned vessels, but the capability has not been tested yet. Speaking during the […]