AI & AutonomyHoneywell Partners with Near Earth Autonomy In Autonomous Rotorcraft Competitions Avionics supplier Honeywell on Monday announced the start of an investment and collaboration agreement with autonomy provider Near Earth Autonomy to bid on for autonomous rotorcraft. Honeywell said the initial example of…
AI & AutonomyHoneywell, Merlin Partner On Autonomous Flight Technology Honeywell, a supplier of avionics systems, and Merlin, a small company developing software for autonomous military aviation, have partnered to bring more autonomy to military and commercial aircraft. The initial focus of…
AI & AutonomyNorthrop Grumman Demonstrates MQ-4C Navigation In Arctic Circle - Sept. 20 Northrop Grumman on Thursday announced it demonstrated the ability of a navigation system used by a MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle to operate at high latitudes within the Arctic Circle. The company…
MilitaryArmy Completes Initial Flight Demos, MOSA Evaluation With FTUAS Prototypes - Sept. 11 The Army has completed initial flight demonstrations and Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) evaluations with Textron Systems and Griffon Aerospace’s offerings for the Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS) program, the service said on…
AI & AutonomyCCA Autonomy Contracts Awarded to Five Vendors DAYTON, Ohio–The U.S. Air Force in the last few months awarded classified contracts to five vendors–a mix of traditional defense companies and non-marquee ones–for the autonomy piece of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft…
MilitaryArmy Plans To Field More Than 1,000 Switchblade 600 Attack Drones For Replicator The Army plans to buy and field more than a thousand Switchblade 600 loitering munitions over the next year for the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative, a senior service official has said. Gen. James…
MilitaryDARPA Selects Six Companies To Continue In Long-Endurance VTOL UAS Program The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week said it selected six companies to continue in the risk reduction and component testing phase of its program to develop vertical take-off-and-landing (VTOL)…
MilitaryValkyrie Unmanned Combat Aircraft Demonstrates Electronic Attack With F-35s - April 2 An XQ-58A Valkyrie autonomous unmanned combat aircraft equipped with an electronic attack payload successfully demonstrated suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD) capabilities with two F-35 fighters in a recent live flight test…
AI & AutonomyCarmaker model may yield cheaper drone wingmen: Air Force Research Lab - Defense News, March 6 The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is looking at the platform sharing concept that has been standard practice in carmaking for decades, which could make autonomous drones more affordable, Defense News reported.…
RegulationNew Research Recommends Streamlining Regulations to Enable Drone Operations in the U.S. New research from George Mason University’s Mercatus Center indicates the need for states to create and manage drone routes in order to enable growth of the commercial drone industry in the U.S.…