“Due to its modular and multi-role nature, our adversaries will need to assume that their every move in the maritime domain is subject to our surveillance and that every [sub drone] is capable of deploying a wide range of effects, including lethal ones,” says Rear Adm. Peter Quinn.
By Colin ClarkNew Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
UAVs capable of operating independently from human control will still, however, require the ability to talk to each other within a swarm while being jammed.
By Barry Rosenberg
“A few years ago, we wouldn’t have had that problem because we wouldn’t have been talking to each other and our machines certainly wouldn’t have been talking to each other,” said Air Force Lt. Gen. Clint Hinote.” And so that’s a huge step forward is the fact that we are all sharing data right now, it’s almost too much.”
By Jaspreet Gill
The features HII included in the Remus 620 are squarely focused on the qualities the US Navy has emphasized for its future UUV fleet.
By Justin Katz
During Breaking Defense’s recent visit to a UUV manufacturing plant, HII officials stressed their modular design, in line with the Navy’s unmanned vision of plug-and-play technologies.
By Justin Katz
The Navy’s goal in creating an “autonomy baseline” is to provide itself the flexibility to plug and play with different industry capabilities onboard the same unmanned vehicles.
By Justin Katz
Saab’s efforts reflect a growing interest in both the US and Europe in unmanned and autonomous technologies.
By Justin Katz
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
“We’re kind of restricted right now, by the tyranny of the rocket equation. I’ve got to have mass to eject in order to move myself around within the Earth-Moon gravity well and beyond. How do we get past that?” asked SPACECOM deputy commander Lt. Gen. John Shaw.
By Theresa Hitchens
Many of the technology challenges facing the Space Force are “fundamental and architectural,” requiring the service to figure out how “to get these new, rapidly evolving ideas into the system in a way that makes sense and it’s not utter chaos,” said Joel Mozer, director of science, technology and research.
By Theresa Hitchens
“What we’re trying to do is send as little information as possible that will allow you to build that battlefield visualization for the platoon,” Ted Maciuba, deputy director of robotics requirements at Army Futures Command, told Breaking Defense.
By Andrew Eversden
“We’re trying to figure out how much autonomy you need, what’s available, what’s really mature now,” Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean told Breaking Defense.
By Andrew Eversden From Javelins to high-altitude ISR, the HASC tactical air and land subcommittee offers a view into lawmaker’s tactical concerns.
By Andrew Eversden
“We want to make sure, of course, that the directive still reflects the views of the department and the way the department should be thinking about [autonomous] weapon systems,” Michael Horowitz told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
By Valerie Insinna and Aaron Mehta
The sub will be both an important source of intelligence and targeting information and may have torpedo tubes and boast other weapons, but those details are still being hammered out.
By Colin Clark
