DIU chose Kongsberg Discovery, Oceaneering and Anduril Industries to participate in a prototyping phase.
By Justin KatzThe DIU solicitation comes amid a raft of other Navy-led efforts to bring more unmanned surface vehicles into operations.
By Justin KatzChanging the world for good with the advancements of unmanned aircraft.
By GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.“It is imperative that we, in concert with our allies and partners, remain committed to prioritizing our warfighters’ freedom of action and ability to achieve spectrum superiority,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said, citing the prominence of EW capabilities in Ukraine and the Middle East.
By Justin KatzThe Navy views MQ-25A Stingray as urgently needed by the fleet, but the DoD Inspector General warned the service was moving too fast.
By Justin KatzGeneral Atomics’ commitments to the UAE go beyond the long-term support it’s planning for additional aircraft systems.
By GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Manufacturing the B-21 bomber, F-35 center fuselage, lessons learned, and autonomy: all are on the table in a discussion with Tom Jones, president of Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems.
By Breaking DefenseDroneHunter is a no-to-low collateral damage, counter-UAS system that shoots different types of nets at drone threats, and can bring them down intact in order to exploit them.
By Breaking DefenseThe Navy’s purchase comes amid a flurry of other activities around the service’s use of unmanned systems.
By Justin KatzAlready in Ukraine, the low-to-no-collateral DroneHunter F700 counter-UAS system can now defeat faster and larger threats like the Russian Orlan-10 and Iranian Shahed-136.
By Breaking DefenseThe command said the operations were focused on tracking Iranian military and paramilitary vessels.
By Justin KatzThe Marine Corps worked with the same US Air Force squadron flying XQ-58s for that service.
By Justin KatzThe panel’s work has been mostly classified, but was focused on linking useful unmanned tech to real operational issues.
By Justin Katz
“Replicator should be a triumphant moment for modern American industrial policy and free market economics — not an attempt to emulate China’s command economy over the proven value of American ingenuity,” write Jeff Decker and Noah Sheinbaum.
By Jeff Decker and Noah Sheinbaum