The manufacturing hype continues. On Tuesday, serial entrepreneur Jai Malik and former SpaceX engineering lead Eli Giovanetti launched The Advanced Manufacturing Company of America, or Amca, which they say will better build the “human-machine interface products.” Those are things like sensors, power units, and flight-control computers that enable a person to run something like an […]
We told you maritime autonomy was all the rage. This morning, USV company Saildrone announced that it has successfully integrated Australia-based Thales’ BlueSentry undersea surveillance system onto its unmanned Surveyor vessels. AUKUS for the win. The partnership—funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—greatly expands the Surveyor’s deep sea awareness, critical for monitoring threats from […]
Anduril is taking to the high seas in a big way. Just a few days after announcing its new Seabed Sentry underwater sensor network, this morning the company unveiled a new-age family of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) called Copperhead. The vessel is Anduril’s answer to a torpedo, but designed to be deployed from unmanned vessels. […]
The United Kingdom wants more drones, and fast. Yesterday, the MoD’s Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) announced phase two of its Innovation in Support of Operations competition, aimed at bringing British defense up to date. The MoD is looking to fund: UK-registered companies can apply with projects that will take up to 4 months and […]
What if soldiers could wander around hyper-realistic conflict zones without ever stepping foot in a hostile environment? Well, soon they might be able to. BAE Systems subsidiary Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) announced last week that they’ve received Initial Operating Capability (read: seal of approval) for the virtual planning and training tool they’re building with Army […]
Last week, amidst the Signalgate-that-keeps-on-giving, the Senate Armed Services committee held a whirlwind confirmation hearing for four of Trump’s critical DoD appointees.
It’s about time we talked about the elephant in the room: China. Step into any defense tech conference, and the threat from Beijing looms large. China’s military is building up and adopting cutting-edge tech at an unprecedented pace, and the US and its allies are failing to keep up, or so the saying goes.. But […]
Anduril ain’t stopping. This morning, the defense tech darling announced yet another contract with the DoD—this time, they locked in an $86M three-year award to help US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) develop and deploy software to manage its autonomous systems. Anduril will provide USSOCOM with its ready-made AI-powered Lattice mission autonomy software, which the command […]
Remember that thing we said about contested environments being the talk of the town? Turns out Saildrone agrees. This morning, the unmanned surface vessel (USV) company announced that it is deploying software on its Voyager vessels that enables them to operate in GPS-denied environments. The software was successfully deployed and tested as part of the […]
In case you missed it, contested environments are the talk of the town. Automated systems are great and all, but what happens when they’re jammed? How does a drone navigate when it falls out of comms? Well, Maxar Intelligence might just have the answer. Today, the satellite and geospatial intelligence company unveiled its Raptor Alternative […]
