Engineering & Design

Robinson Unmanned Advances to Gauntlet II Under Drone Dominance Program

Robinson Unmanned Advances to Gauntlet II Under Drone Dominance Program

Robinson Unmanned, competing under the Ascent AeroSystems brand, has been selected to participate in Gauntlet II of the Pentagon's Drone ...
Pentagon's Counter-Drone Task Force Expands Its Online Marketplace

Pentagon’s Counter-Drone Task Force Expands Its Online Marketplace

The Pentagon is widening access to its counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) marketplace, an online catalogue meant to let the military, ...
Omnisense Drone Landing System for GNSS-Degraded Environments

Omnisense Drone Landing System for GNSS-Degraded Environments

Supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) NAVISP program, UK-based Omnisense has successfully completed the DroneHome-2 project. The result is ...
Hidden Level Wins $100 Million OTA to Scale Passive Sensing for Counter-Drone Mission

Hidden Level Wins $100 Million OTA to Scale Passive Sensing for Counter-Drone Mission

The Department of Defense has awarded Hidden Level a $100 million Other Transaction Authority contract to field the company's passive ...
AV, Applied Intuition Team to Bring Collaborative Autonomy to Mayhem 10

AV, Applied Intuition Team to Bring Collaborative Autonomy to Mayhem 10

AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) and Applied Intuition have announced a strategic teaming agreement to integrate Applied Intuition’s Acuity ISR/Strike autonomy software ...
Skyeton to Build First U.S. Manufacturing Plant in N.C., Joining Ukrainian Drone Makers Onshoring Production

Skyeton to Build First U.S. Manufacturing Plant in N.C., Joining Ukrainian Drone Makers Onshoring Production

Skyeton, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Ukrainian long-endurance UAS manufacturer Skyeton Holdings, will open its first flagship U.S. manufacturing facility ...
BAE Bets on Sovereignty, Unveils Brontanax Loyal Wingman to British Military in Search of 'Storm Fighter'

BAE Bets on Sovereignty, Unveils Brontanax Loyal Wingman to British Military in Search of ‘Storm Fighter’

BAE Systems unveiled a Loyal Wingman drone fighter called Brontanax at the UK’s Farnborough airshow: a prototype the company’s FalconWorks ...
TEKEVER Unveils AR6, a New Family of Autonomous Systems for Heavy Lift

TEKEVER Unveils AR6, a New Family of Autonomous Systems for Heavy Lift

TEKEVER has revealed AR6, a new product family that extends the company's autonomous portfolio into the heavy-lift class for both ...
FCC Extends Trusted-Drone Exemptions, Opens Path to Broader Import Bans

FCC Extends Trusted-Drone Exemptions, Opens Path to Broader Import Bans

On July 21, the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau extended two existing Covered List exemptions, made a third ...
Inside the Drone Dominance Supply Chain: What Every U.S. Drone Company Must Source—and by When

Inside the Drone Dominance Supply Chain: What Every U.S. Drone Company Must Source—and by When

Inside Unmanned Systems maps the Pentagon’s new component-level requirements across the NDAA, Blue UAS and Drone Dominance frameworks—showing where platforms ...
Drone Dominance Program Launches New ‘Gauntlet’ Mission C Competition for Heavy Gravity-Bomber Drones
Air, Military

Drone Dominance Program Launches New ‘Gauntlet’ Mission C Competition for Heavy Gravity-Bomber Drones

The Pentagon’s multi-phase Drone Dominance Gauntlet competition seeking to stimulate development and mass production of low-cost first-person view (FPV) kamikaze ...
Invisible Enablers
Air, Land, Military

Invisible Enablers

Leading-Edge Mesh Radio Companies are Marketing For the Future. Silvus is adapting its high-end technology to drone-war scale. Photo courtesy ...
Anduril and Archer Unveil Jointly Built Autonomous VTOL Platform, Thunder

Anduril and Archer Unveil Jointly Built Autonomous VTOL Platform, Thunder

Anduril and Archer Aviation have unveiled a jointly developed, dual-use VTOL aircraft platform at Farnborough, with Anduril showcasing the defense ...
Saronic to Build $3 Billion Port Alpha Shipyard in Brownsville, Texas

Saronic to Build $3 Billion Port Alpha Shipyard in Brownsville, Texas

Saronic has selected Brownsville, Texas as the site for Port Alpha, a next-generation shipyard the company says will help expand ...
U.S. Navy Corsairs Just Conducted Its First Kamikaze Drone Boat Attack Since World War II

U.S. Navy Corsairs Just Conducted Its First Kamikaze Drone Boat Attack Since World War II

Just a over a month after the U.S. Navy used a small unmanned surface vehicle (USV) for the first time ...