DARPA’s No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program has built a ship designed to operate autonomously for long durations at sea. This may be the first US Navy ship designed from the keel up for autonomous operations. The prototype Unmanned Surface…
Norwegian company Kongsberg has completed acceptance testing and delivery of the first HUGIN Superior Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and US Navy. The company’s Large Diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (LDUUV) was delivered only one year…
The US Navy’s Program Executive Office, Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC), has awarded a series of contracts to facilitate autonomous Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mine Countermeasures (MCM) Mission Package (MP) deployments. The MCM Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) is an…
The US Navy’s Strike Planning and Execution program (PMA-281) and Aerial Targets program (PMA-208) have partnered with US firm Shield AI to integrate autonomy and artificial intelligence software into the Kratos BQM-177A sub-sonic aerial target. Under the agreement Shield AI…
The US Navy Virginia-class submarine USS Hawaii (SSN 776) has arrived at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia to undergo Australia’s first nuclear-powered Submarine Tendered Maintenance Period (STMP). She joined the US submarine maintenance ship USS Emory S Land which is…
The US Navy has installed the world’s first Unmanned Air Warfare Center (UAWC) aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), where Air Vehicle Pilots (AVPs) will control future MQ-25 Stingray airborne operations. This major installation was a multi-year effort coordinated…
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has successfully demonstrated the Lab’s new Quicksink weapon in a trial held during Ex RIMPAC 24 in Hawaii. A US Air Force B-2 bomber sank the 39,000-tone decommissioned amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa…
Defence has unveiled Australia’s first MQ-4C Triton Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), ‘AUS 1’, the first of four to be operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The RPAS actually arrived in Australia in June. Revealed at RAAF Base Tindal, the…
US firm Anduril has been awarded a US$19 million ($28.7 million) contract to design, build, and test second stage rocket motors for use in the US Navy’s Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) anti-air, surface, and hypersonic missile that is deployable on 60…
BAE Systems Inc in Nashua, New Hampshire, has received a US$95 million ($142 million) contract from the US Navy for advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) countermeasure pods to protect the P-8A Poseidon Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft from missiles and other threats. The…