“We’re not letting anybody go, we’re not doing any redundancies,” Applied Intuition co-founder Qasar Younis told Breaking Defense. Instead his firm, long focused on unmanned ground vehicles, is eager to add EpiSci’s expertise in aerial drones and unmanned watercraft.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Weapons development redefined: How U.S. industry and government must collaborate
L3Harris is working to ensure our warfighters stay ahead of the rapidly evolving threat environment.
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The American-made Teal 2 quadcopter and Edge 130 Blue, a VTOL fixed-wing system, are both on the Defense Innovation Unit’s Blue List for acquisition by U.S. forces.
By Breaking Defense
Sending robotic vehicles into the breach saves lives by removing humans from one of the most dangerous places on the battlefield.
By Barry Rosenberg
Because it needs much less electricity per computation than current chips, the new hardware could take AI out of big data centers and onto drones, robots, and other small platforms at the “tactical edge.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Autonomy in the pursuit of interoperability is today’s path for ground robotics.
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Developed to increase situational awareness, deliver decisive lethality, and provide tactical options in support of multi-domain operations.
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Although the service has awarded contracts to wind down leader-follower development and give the experimental trucks back to soldiers, a separate office has launched a prototyping competition.
By Ashley Roque
As the world reexamines defense priorities, the world looks to UAS like MQ-9B
A new chapter is beginning in U.S.-UAE defense cooperation, opening the door to further collaboration.
Last week, 33 nations called for a global treaty restricting “lethal autonomous weapons.” But US officials warn that such a ban would be both premature and overly narrow, preferring broader but non-binding “best practices” guiding any military employment of AI.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The revised DoD Directive 3000.09 refines an obscure review process, adding broad AI ethics principles but still not actually forbidding development or deployment of would-be killer robots.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Experimental Robotic Combat Vehicles and virtual designs for Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicles are exploring bold new possibilities.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The combined company will offer a wide range of unmanned vehicles (mostly small ones) for air, land, sea, and underwater, said exec Roger Wells.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Russia has big ambitions for unmanned systems, said CNA scholar Sam Bendett, but it faces the same technical hurdles as the US — and shares the same concerns about human control.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Five small businesses won SBIR Phase II awards to build robotic arms to handle shells, software to manage ammo inventory, and other prototype technologies.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“All too often,” the enemy in training scenarios is “two guys… with AK-47s and then another guy with an RPG,” Maj. Gen. Patrick Donahoe says. “That’s not the threat we need to be training our force against today.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
