During testing this summer, one unit decided it needed three control vehicles for every two robots, where only two control vehicles had been expected.
By Ashley RoqueNew radars to counter 360° air and missile threats
High-speed cruise and ballistic missiles and drones attacking from different directions simultaneously is the challenge that radars must meet today.
Shiri Krebs, a legal fellow advising Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said that “the question is, what can this human do” if involved in a lethal strike recommended by artificial intelligence.
By Colin Clark
General Atomics could scale to build a drone wingman every two days “without lifting a finger” at its existing 5 million square foot production plant in Poway, Calif., the company’s head of aeronautics told Breaking Defense. To go faster, the company would need to expand.
By Valerie Insinna
PEO CS&CSS is retaining a separate ground autonomy competition designed to field self-driving PLS trucks.
By Ashley Roque
Drone wingmen models were the talk of Air, Space & Cyber Conference 2024, including some pointed barbs from the competitors themselves.
By Valerie Insinna
The drone will decide if, say, an abandoned car near a road appears to be a threat or not. If it decides it’s not then it wouldn’t “bother the operator. The operator is doing something important,” co-founder Matthew Buffa said. “I’m (the drone) not going to go on the radio and tell him about this random car I’ve seen, which is what autonomous systems do right now.”
By Colin Clark “It’s a very draft requirement [with] a lot of work to do on how to refine it, but we have PLS systems – the larger tactical resupply [tucks] – and you have the S-MET and there’s really a gap between the two,” said Kevin Mills.
By Ashley Roque
The connected warrior will have a common operating picture even when contested
Mobile, distributed command and control requires a common operating picture even in contested environments.
The semi-autonomous, optionally piloted, high-speed, off-road platform to be a “research platform” for cutting edge tech.
By Flavia Camargos Pereira
AQNav uses AI algorithms, quantum sensors and the Earth’s crustal magnetic field to provide real-time navigation in situations where GPS signals are down or deterred.
By Carley Welch
The two vendors emerged successful from an original pool of five and are expected to carry their drone designs through a prototyping phase that will build and test aircraft.
By Michael Marrow and Valerie Insinna
The trial, which took place in South Australia, is the latest in a series of experimental efforts associated with AUKUS’ Pillar II.
By Justin Katz
Drones for maintenance: After autonomous C-5 scan, Boeing looks to ‘weatherizing’ UAVs to go outside
“We’ve proven this works, we’ve proven the goodness,” Scott Belanger, capabilities integration team lead for Boeing Global Services, told reporters. “Now, where do we take it? How do we really scale it?”
By Jaspreet Gill
“This project will build a foundation for future joint research on robotic and collaborative autonomy, aiming to deliver advanced capabilities to support asymmetric advantage,” Tanya Monro, Australia’s chief defense scientist, said in a statement.
By Colin Clark
“I think that there’s a recognition that the sorts of norms we’re trying to promote are things that all countries should be able to get behind,” Pentagon emerging capabilities official Michael Horowitz said.
By Jaspreet Gill
