Lockheed Martin to invest $50M into Saildrone, plans to equip USVs with missile launchers
This announcement is “transformational for us,” Saildrone CEO Richard Jenkins told Breaking Defense in an interview today.
The Navy needs a 180-degree pivot: Embracing autonomy and AI for maritime dominance
The Navy should drop manned aircraft and pivot the majority of surface vessels to drones, argues John Ferrari of AEI.
10 Breaking Defense op-eds that defined 2025
It's been a whirlwind of a year — and the defense establishment has plenty of thoughts on how it's unfolded and what might come next.
Applied Intuition takes flight, sets sail in acquiring EpiSci
“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.
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon reveals 5 more funded RDER projects, including a top Marine priority
The Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve, brainchild of Pentagon CTO Heidi Shyu, has funded low-profile but high-value niche technologies the services couldn’t or wouldn’t, from robot boats to a multi-domain targeting node.
‘One pane’: Navy seeks standardized C2, data-sharing for unmanned systems
With ever-larger numbers of drones, unmanned submersibles and robot boats, said 4th Fleet Rear Adm. Jim Aiken, “what we didn’t realize was the volume of data we were going to get at headquarters.”
Qatari shipbuilder joins forces with L3Harris, debuts Suhail USV at DIMDEX 2024
Performance Marine Chairman Hassan Bin Jabor Al-Thani told Breaking Defense that Suhail is the first fully autonomous USV completely built in Doha.
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Turkish firms unveil suite of indigenous naval weapons at IDEF 2023
Three major Turkish firms used IDEF to unveil new naval capabilities at the international expo in Istanbul.