UK Navy buys 20 USVs to act as unmanned ‘proving ground’
The Ministry of Defence declined to say if the new vessels could be deployed soon to aid Iran-related maritime operations.
CEO Q&A: Abu Dhabi Ship Building eyes large USVs and early vessel deliveries
David Massey sat down with Breaking Defense in DIMDEX in Qatar and explained how medium-sized USVs are already old hat.
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
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.
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.
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Answering the demand signal to move faster, field sooner, iterate continuously
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
‘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.
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.