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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that Northrop Grumman was competitively awarded the U.S. Marine Corps’ Marine Air-Ground Task Force Uncrewed Expeditionary Tactical Aircraft (MUX TACAIR) Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). Continue reading
– L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI successfully demonstrated an artificial intelligence-enabled drone detection system during the Department of War’s recent Technology Readiness Experimentation event. Continue reading
– AeroVironment, Inc. has announced AV_Halo, a hardware-agnostic software platform that unifies the company’s suite of mission-ready software tools — to include multi-domain command and control (C2), AI-enhanced intelligence analysis, synthetic training, and autonomous targeting — into a single open-standards software ecosystem capable of integrating with any other battle management systems. Continue reading
– General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has successfully integrated the advanced Optix software—developed by General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-i3)—into the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Common Intelligence Picture (CIP) for a multi-service Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course. Continue reading
Ukrainian forces are now embedding malware in their drones as a new tactic in their ongoing war with Russia. This development adds a cyber warfare dimension to a battlefield already transformed by drone technology. Continue reading
– Maxar Intelligence, a provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, has launched Raptor, a powerful software suite that enables autonomous drones to navigate and extract accurate ground coordinates in the absence of GPS. This technology transforms the resilience and reliability of unmanned systems, enabling autonomy at scale across warfighting, humanitarian and commercial operations for customers across the world. Continue reading
– L3Harris Technologies has introduced AMORPHOUS, its new software that features a single user interface to operate thousands of autonomous assets simultaneously. Designed with an open architecture, this software enables the United States and allied militaries to control a mix of uncrewed platforms, payloads and systems, even if another manufacturer produces them. Continue reading
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has announced contract awards to select software developers supporting the Replicator initiative. These vendors are playing a key role in advancing resilient command and control (C2) and collaborative autonomy solutions for all domain attritable autonomous (ADA2) systems. Continue reading