New missile defenses, EW tactics aided Israel during 12-day Iran conflict
“This revolution is reshaping the future of modern warfare,” Eric Mandel, director of the Middle East Political Information Network, told Breaking Defense.
Rafael rolls out Lite Beam laser, Trophy updates to protect vehicles from drone threats
“These solutions provide maneuvering forces with robust force protection and flexibility against a wide range of airborne threats, including UAVs,” Rafael said in a statement.
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
IAI, Aerotor planning APUS family of quadcopter drones
Moshe Levy, manager of the Military Aircraft Group at IAI, told Breaking Defense that to increase distance and capacity, the quadcopter design will use fuel instead of batteries.
How tactical units are filling their need for ISR and first–person view unmanned systems
The Defense Innovation Unit will now conduct an annual competition for sUAS and quadcopters to either stay on the Blue List or be added to it, Blue UAS Project Lead Trent Emeneker told Breaking Defense.
With SandboxAQ, Army futurists to use AI to build better batteries, find ‘novel alloys’
“Some of the implications are that we now have batteries or, hopefully we'll have batteries, that are not reliant on rare earth minerals. We don't have to rely on those coming from adversarial nations such as China," Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ’s Global Public Sector division, told Breaking Defense.
Iran’s strikes did little damage to Israel — but analysts say Tehran benefits anyway
“Iran’s goal was to restore its credibility and inflict retribution on Israel while reducing the risk of further escalation," said Hasan Alhasan, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
The revolution that wasn’t: How AI drones have fizzled in Ukraine (so far)
Last fall, both Russia and Ukraine boasted of fielding drones that tracked targets using AI algorithms. Now new expert analysis suggests that neither side got it to work well enough for war — but the US and China might.
From KMAX to KARGO: Army, Marines test out new support drone
KARGO builds on Kaman’s Afghanistan experience with its KMAX cargo UAV while adding new Near Earth Autonomy software to adapt to changing battlefields.
For Replicator to work, the Pentagon needs to directly help with production
Replicator, intended to deliver thousands of low-cost attritable autonomous systems across multiple domains over the next 18 to 24 months, needs industrial investment, writes Andrew Metrick of CNAS.
DARPA moves General Atomics’ ‘LongShot’ drone pitch to phase 2
DARPA envisions a plane launching a drone, which in turn can launch its own weapons.
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
For UAS to operate in contested airspace, autonomy is key
UAVs capable of operating independently from human control will still, however, require the ability to talk to each other within a swarm while being jammed.
How Project Convergence is informing British, Australian military modernization
Officials from both the United Kingdom and Australia took part in this year’s experiment for the first time, bringing their own technologies alongside the US Army to test across the past few months.
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Better, smarter UAS have intelligence and resilience for denied operations
Continued operation in RF environments — whether that's GPS denial or communications disruption — is the number one need for tactical unmanned aerial systems.
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Accelerating advantage: The autonomous concepts aiming to drive superiority for tomorrow’s warfighter
As the battlefield of tomorrow becomes increasingly complex, BAE Systems’ work in developing early lifecycle Uncrewed Aerial Systems capability could play a key role in maintaining critical advantage.