2016 Headlines
16 May 2016 - At the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition AeroVironment, Inc. today announced the United States Navy plans to deploy its “Blackwing™,” a small, tube-launched unmanned aircraft system that deploys from under the surface of the sea, on manned submarines and unmanned underwater vehicles.
Cambridge Pixel Launches Unmanned Surface Vehicle Display App
11 May 2016 – Cambridge Pixel has launched USVx, a new radar display application to control radar sensors and tracking functions on unmanned or autonomous surface vehicles (USV/ASVs).
Littoral Combat Ship Deploys with Upgraded UAS Controls
27 April 2016 - Raytheon Company and the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command have deployed advanced mission control for the MQ-8 Fire Scout, an unmanned helicopter, aboard the Littoral Combat Ship USS Coronado (LCS-4).
S-100 Demonstrated to Canadian Coast Guard
18 April 2016 – Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) successfully demonstrated its capabilities to a host of dignitaries from the Canadian Coast Guard, the Royal Canadian Navy, Transport Canada, the Canadian National Research Council and the University of Alaska in partnership with the Memorial University of Newfoundland at Fogo Island, Canada.
Thales To Deliver Unmanned Air System to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
18 April 2016 - Thales fixed-wing navalized UAS will be installed on six New Generation Patrol Craft (NGPC) being constructed by Destini Shipbuilding and Engineering for the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA).
Lockheed Martin Awarded Expendable Anti-submarine Warfare Target Contract
15 April 2016 - Lockheed Martin Sippican, of Marion, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $49,503,485 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to procure MK 39 Mod 2 expendable mobile antisubmarine warfare (ASW) training targets (EMATT). The MK 39 Mod 2 EMATT is the Navy’s open ocean ASW training target.
Government Accounting Office Releases CBARS Report
25 March 2016 - The GAO released a report entitled, "Unmanned Carrier-Based Aircraft System: Debate over System’s Role Led to Focus on Aerial Refueling" which assesses the current status of the restructured CBARS program (now referred to as the MQ-25 Stingray).
John Hopkins APL Introduces a Submersible Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
17 March 2016 - Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have developed an innovative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can stay on station beneath the water, then launch into the air to perform a variety of missions.
SeeByte and OceanServer Offer the Iver3 EOD-XO Neptune Edition AUV
15 March 2016 - SeeByte and OceanServer are pleased to announce a new commercial partnership. The companies recently successfully delivered three Iver3 systems with SeeByte’s software to the United Kingdom’s (UK) Ministry Of Defence (MOD) Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S).
Boeing Introduces Massive Echo Voyager UUV
10 March 2016 – Boeing today introduced Echo Voyager, its latest unmanned, undersea vehicle (UUV), which can operate autonomously for months at a time thanks to a hybrid rechargeable power system and modular payload bay.
SeeByte and ASV Form Partnership to Develop the Next Generation of Adaptive Autonomous Systems
7 March 2016 - SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software technology for unmanned systems and ASV, leading supplier of Unmanned and Autonomous Marine Systems, are pleased to announce a commercial partnership where the two companies will collaborate to bring new advanced capabilities and solutions to the field of maritime autonomy.
NATO CMRE Makes Strides in Synthetic Aperture Sonar Data Storage
1 March 2016 - The Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), an executive body of NATO’s Science and Technology Organization (STO), has produced a major breakthrough in swappable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle data storage.
Joint Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Swarming Integration Testing
23 February 2016 - The Joint Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Swarming Integration (JUSI) Quick Reaction Test (QRT) will develop a concept for swarming unmanned aircraft to electronically attack integrated air defense networks.
Submaran S-10 Conducts New Trials Off San Diego
MQ-4C Triton UAS Completes Operational Assessment
17 February 2016 - The MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) built for the U.S. Navy by Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully completed Operational Assessment (OA). Pending final data analysis, the completion of this milestone signals the maturity of the system and paves the way for a positive Milestone C decision. Milestone C will transition Triton into low rate initial production.
CAMCOPTER® S-100 – Flies With Detect and Avoid System
09 February 2016 – Schiebel, the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), the Netherlands Coastguard, and the Royal Netherlands Air Force conducted a series of successful flights with a newly developed airborne Detect and Avoid System at the airport of Den Helder in December 2015.
8 February 2016 - Drawing on world class know-how derived from generations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) design, development and operation and its naval capabilities, Elbit Systems’ newest offering in the unmanned platform field is Seagull - an organic, modular, highly autonomous, multi-mission Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) system.
X-47B Aerial Refueling Demo Nominated for the Collier Trophy
2 February 2016 – The National Aeronautic Association announced today that the X-47B's autonomous aerial refueling demonstration last year is one of nine aerospace projects and accomplishments to compete for the 2015 Robert J. Collier Trophy.
AeroVironment’s Puma AE UAS Supporting Coast Guard Antarctic Resupply
2 February 2016 - AeroVironment, Inc. announced it and a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been contracted to provide the U.S. Coast Guard ice breaker Polar Star with a RQ-20A Puma™ AE unmanned aircraft system for the annual Operation Deep Freeze resupply mission.
Distributed Lethality Concept Relies Heavily on UAVs
22 January 2016 - The U.S. Navy's surface warfare community has released a video depicting its distributed lethality concept. Throughout the video, unmanned air vehicles, presumably variants of DARPA's TERN program, are depicted on surface combatants and amphibious ships. The UAVs would support organic over-the-horizon targeting for a host of new surface to surface missiles the navy intends to acquire over the next several years.
NOAA Demonstrates Improved Coyote UAS
7 January 2016 - A team from NOAA and Raytheon successfully demonstrated recent advancements of the Coyote Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) while completing a mid-flight launch from the NOAA P-3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft on January 7th. The successful flight verified new technology designed to improve Coyote’s ability to collect vital weather data to improve hurricane forecasts.