The US Army plans to conduct field-testing as early as 2024 of THOR – Tactical High Power Operational Responder – a new microwave weapon designed to protect military bases from incoming drones. An on-site demonstration […]
SparkCognition and SkyGrid have formed a new partnership to protect drones from zero-day attacks – cyber attacks that occur when a newly discovered software vulnerability is discovered by hackers. They are using an airspace management […]
The U.S. Army recently issued an RFP for drones that can deliver supplies to infantry brigade combat teams in the field. The concept – called the “Joint Tactical Autonomous Aerial Resupply System (JTAARS) – has […]
Miranda Costenoble, a graduate student researcher with the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), recently presented her work on enabling the development of quieter small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS). Her research demonstrates how information […]
Aevum – an aerospace startup – recently released its rocket-launching drone designed to send small satellites into orbit without a pilot or a launchpad. Called the RAVN-X, after flight testing it is scheduled to launch […]
Under the Submarine-Launched Unmanned Aerial System (SLUAS), the U.S. Navy is equipping submarines with camera-equipped drones that can be launched to detect targets too far away to be seen through a submarine periscope. Called “flying […]
Marine Corps System Command (MARCORSYSCOM) has released an RFI for industry sources to produce a man-portable system capable of launching swarms of kamikaze drones over contested battlefields. Officially described as an “individually operated, man-portable, anti-material, […]
A collaboration of researchers from UNSW Canberra, Bielefeld University, The Max Planck Institute, Brown University, and The University of California are studying how bumblebees fly – with an eye to applying that knowledge in the […]
The Army Research Laboratory’s Combat Capabilities Development Command has funded a four-year, $8 million research project with The University of Illinois Chicago to build an autonomous charging system that can support swarms of drones. The […]
Researchers at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have built a tube-launched drone that removes the standard requirements for takeoff conditions. The football-shaped foldable quadrotor is fired out of a cannon, unfolds itself, and then […]
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