Military, Defense & Security News & Articles

Industrial-Grade Servo Propulsion Modules for UAVs

State-of-the-art drone servo motors and high-precision electronic speed controllers (ESCs) with embedded position sensors for maximum propulsion efficiency

Aug 22, 2022
US Army Selects AeroVironment Medium UAS for FTUAS Increment 1

Increment 1 entails testing and fielding JUMP 20 medium unmanned aircraft on an accelerated schedule as it competes to become the US Army’s Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) of choice

Aug 22, 2022
AeroVironment Expands Autonomy Capabilities with Planck Aerosystems Acquisition

AeroVironment will focus on integrating Planck Aerosystems’ flight autonomy solutions into its UAS offerings to enable safe, autonomous takeoff and landing from moving platforms on land or at sea in GPS-denied environments

Aug 18, 2022
Ground-Based Detect & Avoidance System Supports Manned/Unmanned Teaming

Naval Aviation’s new avoidance technology Guardian is the only ground based detect and avoidance system developed to meet the FAA’s performance standards for unmanned systems

Aug 18, 2022
MoveIt Studio Developer Platform & SDK Launched for Manipulation Applications



PickNik Robotics’ MoveIt Studio Developer Platform and Software Development Kit (SDK) aim to help robotics and software engineers to create, debug, and ship complex manipulation projects faster


Aug 18, 2022
Personnel Safety System for Uncrewed Ground Combat Vehicles in Development

Stratom’s unique solution will enable the uncrewed ground combat vehicle to determine when personnel or combatants are nearby and leverage that information to inform the robotic system’s actions

Aug 18, 2022
Fairbanks Morse Defense Expands Unmanned Marine Vehicle Capabilities

Fairbanks Morse Defense and DECK Marine Systems will co-develop an intelligent Launch and Recovery System (LARS) for use with unmanned marine vehicles

Aug 17, 2022
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered AUV Completes Successful Demonstration Missions

The missions demonstrated the autonomous launch of a micro-AUV from Cellula Robotics’ Solus-LR while submerged and underway

Aug 16, 2022
Partnership Advances Maritime Expeditionary Standoff Response Vehicle

SeeByte and Greensea Systems have announced an ongoing collaboration in Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) autonomy to satisfy the needs of key maritime robotics consumers such as the US Navy

Aug 16, 2022
Onboard AI Launched at DOD Field Exercise

SFL Scientific’s OptoAI identified visual, thermal, and chemical threats in real-time, on board a small UAV, displaying markers in an augmented reality (AR) sandtable for command & control

Aug 16, 2022
E400 VTOL Drone Now With Secure Autopilot

Asymmetric Technologies’ Ironclad flight controller is designed with premium encryption features, including initial user authentication, secure connection, and anti-tamper features that will wipe encryption keys in an emergency

Aug 15, 2022
Edge Autonomy Acquires Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology Company 

Adaptive Energy's lightweight, energy dense Solid Oxide Fuel Cells have been integrated as critical technology in Edge Autonomy's Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms for over 10 years

Aug 15, 2022
C2 Software Renewed for Belgian Navy Mine Warfare School & AUV Fleet

The Belgian Navy has renewed licenses to continue using SeeByte’s multi-domain Command and Control (C2) system SeeTrack v4, and the Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) system

Aug 15, 2022
EMCORE Acquires the KVH FOG & Inertial Navigation Systems Business

EMCORE has announced the acquisition of the Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG) and Inertial Navigation Systems business segment of KVH Industries

Aug 11, 2022
Fuel Measurement Sensors Selected for Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Helicopter

Reventec's capacitive fuel level sensor allows the Alpha 900 to deliver up to 4 hours of continuous flight

Aug 09, 2022
Spanish Army Receives First THeMIS UGV 

Milrem Robotics’ THeMIS UGV is a multi-mission capable system intended to support dismounted troops and can transport a squad’s gear or be rapidly converted into a weaponized remotely operated unit to offer force protection

Aug 09, 2022
New Software Enables Visualization of Radar Data from 3D Sensors

Cambridge Pixel’s SPx Viewer-3D enables users to manipulate the viewpoint to observe data from 3D or 2D radars, along with AIS and ADS-B information from any angle for tasks such as drone detection

Aug 09, 2022
Black Eagle Electric Helicopter UAVs Selected by Israeli Navy

The Black Eagle 50 Electric helicopter can carry multiple payloads and sensors and is ideal for advanced maritime missions

Jul 30, 2022
UK MoD Approves Leonardo VTOL UAS Demonstration Flight 

A new four-year investment from the MoD will see the creation of an uncrewed flying demonstrator adapted for roles including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, maritime specific missions and logistics supply

Jul 26, 2022
First Demonstration of a Laser Controlled Drone During Flight

The demonstration saw a ground based operator control a UAS transmitting control commands and receiving sensor and platform information that included Free Space Optical Communications as a bi-directional link in its mission communication system

Jul 25, 2022
US Navy Demonstrates Manned-Unmanned Teaming with Super Hornet

Boeing and the US Navy conducted flight tests in which a Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft demonstrated command and control of three Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Jul 25, 2022
Orolia Joins Safran Electronics & Defense to Offer Resilient PNT Solutions 

Through this partnership with Orolia, Safran Electronics & Defense will offer a complete and cohesive set of resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) architectures and equipment

Jul 11, 2022
Additional Centaur UGVs for US Army & Navy

Teledyne FLIR’s Centaur is currently used by Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams to disable unexploded ordnance, improvised explosive devices, landmines, and to perform similar dangerous tasks

Jul 08, 2022
Additional US Navy Funding for Real-Time Autonomous Ocean Mapping

Charles River Analytics is creating ROMAN (Real-Time Ortho-Mosaicking for Awareness and Navigation), a set of software components for creating real-time sea surface maps and detecting maritime objects

Jul 05, 2022
Advanced Nano-UAVs for Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency

Teledyne FLIR Defense’s Black Hornet is suited for covert operations in highly contested and GPS-denied environments

Jun 27, 2022
PackBot UGVs Delivered to German Army

The PackBot 525 UGV is designed for a wide range of missions such as bomb disposal, close-in surveillance and hazardous materials

Jun 16, 2022
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.