With coaxial rotors and a rugged cylindrical form, Ascent AeroSystems is reshaping expectations for small UAS. Under CEO Peter Fuchs…
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AV’s Wildcat Reaches Key Milestones in DARPA’s ANCILLARY Program’s EVADE Demonstration
AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) has announced that its Wildcat uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) has achieved a series of development milestones in support of…
Maxar Launches Sentry Persistent Monitoring Suite for Predictive Intelligence
Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, has announced the launch of Sentry, a persistent monitoring solution that…
Shield AI Advances Combat-Ready Autonomy with Second MQ-20 Avenger Flight
Shield AI has announced the second flight demonstration of its mission autonomy software, Hivemind, on a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI)…
France Ramps Up Drone Investment with New MALE
The Directorate-General for Armaments (DGA) announced the signing of five agreements and a framework agreement to strengthen France’s military capacity…
Teledyne FLIR OEM Enhances Defense Readiness with NDAA-Compliant Thermal Imaging Solutions
Full Suite of NDAA-Compliant Thermal Camera Modules Empowers OEMs to Build Secure, High-Performance Systems. Teledyne FLIR OEM, a part of…
Re-shoring and Reviving the Defense Industrial Base
As defense manufacturing confronts global instability a new generation of companies is reshaping the U.S. industrial base with speed, software…
AV’s JUMP 20 Medium UAS Supports U.S. Navy’s 4th Fleet During Operation Southern Spear
AeroVironment, Inc. delivered company-owned, company-operated (COCO) maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) services in support of the U.S. Navy’s 4th Fleet…
SightLine Applications Delivers Enhanced Onboard Intelligence with Software & Hardware Advancements
SightLine Applications LLC, a leader in onboard video processing for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Loitering Munitions (LM) applications,…
Quantum Systems Opens New U.S. Facility to Scale Delivery of AI-Powered ISR Solutions
Quantum Systems, a provider of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aerial intelligence solutions, today announced the grand opening of…
Maxar and Saab Join Strategic Partnership for Autonomous Drone Navigation Solutions
Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, has announced a strategic partnership with Saab to jointly develop next-generation…
Draganfly Announces Delivery of Flex FPV Unmanned Systems
Draganfly Inc., a drone solutions and systems developer, has announced the first deliveries of its Flex FPV (First Person View)…
$20M DIU “Project GI” Challenge to Test and Scale Next-Generation UAS Solutions Across Domains
Emerging threats from peer and near-peer uncrewed systems (UxS) have reshaped the character of war, necessitating the development of new…
Picogrid Expands U.S. Defense Tech Footprint with New Factory and $1.1M Army Contract for System Integration
Defense technology company Picogrid has announced two major developments underscoring its growing role in modern battlefield integration: the opening of a new 25,000-square-foot…
Operation Spiderweb: Ukraine’s Drones Dealt a Blow to Russia’s Strategic Fleet
Russia’s fleet of Tu-22M Backfire, Tu-95 Bear and Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers can launch nuclear-armed cruise missiles capable of annihilating…
DIU Overhauls Blue UAS Program to Accelerate Drone Integration Across the Department of Defense
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has announced a significant transformation of its Blue UAS program, introducing a two-tiered system designed…
GA-ASI Moves Into Ground Testing of New YFQ-42A CCA
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has moved into the ground testing phase of development on the YFQ-42A production-representative test…
