The US Air Force has awarded Boeing a US$75 million ($107 million) Undefinitized Contract Action (UCA) to acquire the BSU-111/B Payload Delivery Unit (PDU) Joint Direct Attack Munition Long Range (JDAM LR), clearing the program for initial production. The JDAM…
Californian company Castelion has been awarded a US$23.4 million ($33.3 million) firm-fixed-price order from the US Navy for the production and delivery of 50 Blackbeard hypersonic missile, to be completed by 2027. The contract covers early operational capability pre-production prototypes and 50 associated storage and shipping containers, said…
McLean, Virginia-based Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Mission Technologies has announced the delivery of the first REMUS 130 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) to an undisclosed US ally. The REMUS 130 is the latest addition to the REMUS family, which is in…
The US Navy has selected HII Mission Technologies’ ROMULUS Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) to advance to the at-sea testing phase of its Medium USV (MUSV) program. The ROMULUS family of USVs is designed to deliver high-endurance, sustained open-ocean autonomy with…
US prime contractor Boeing and the US Navy have successfully completed the first test flight of an operational MQ-25A Stingray™ autonomous aerial refueller. The milestone brings the Stingray closer to aircraft carrier operations and marks the beginning of a new…
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the US Navy have selected Anduril Industries and its Dive-XL autonomous submarine to participate in the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform (CAMP) Project. This project aims to address a persistent operational gap beneath the…
Defence has awarded Austal Defence Shipbuilding Australia Pty Ltd (Austal Defence Australia) a $4 billion contract to build eight Landing Craft Heavy (LCH) under the Strategic Shipbuilding Agreement (SSA) with the Commonwealth of Australia that was signed last year. Construction…
California-based Anduril Industries and Korean firm HD Hyundai Heavy Industries have announced a partnership to design and produce a new class of dual-use Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASV) that combines HD Hyundai’s legacy in shipbuilding with Anduril’s speed-to-market, software-defined autonomy and…
Newport, Virginia-based Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has announced a new 190-foot autonomous boat, the Romulus 190, that is designed by Sydney-based Incat-Crowther. The new Romulus design is part-built already and will be operational in 2026, says HII’s Duane Fotheringham. It…
US company Leidos will manufacture its aluminium, 37-foot (about 11.3m) Sea Archer Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) in Australia. The first of class is currently under construction in the US but the second will be built in Toronto on the mid-north…