The Defense Advanced Research Program Agency has demonstrated an optical sense-and-avoid system as part of an effort to allow manned and unmanned aircraft to avoid mid-air collisions with other aircraft. DARPA said
MoreA top U.S. Air Force officer has said his service branch and the U.S. Army need unmanned aerial vehicles dedicated to their unique mission sets in the future, Air Force Times reported Sunday.
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A team of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researchers has flown a new multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle to gather data about its capabilities as part of the agency’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy program. DARPA said Friday it
MoreU.K.-based Open Briefing and Oxford Research Group have published a joint report that recommends regulatory, passive and active countermeasures meant to help government organizations stop hostile use of unmanned aerial vehicles by nonstate actors.
MoreNavy Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, has said MDA aims to begin flight tests of its modified kill vehicle in 2018 and field the platform by 2019, Space
MoreThe U.S. Air Force has decided to allow its enlisted airmen to operate RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft as the military branch looks to bolster its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Air Force
MoreTimothy Bennett, a Department of Homeland Security program manager, has said that drug smugglers use technology to spoof and jam GPS systems on unmanned aircraft that DHS uses for border patrol, Defense
MoreA new study by the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board suggests that the service branch should fund research efforts that seek to upgrade unmanned aircraft vehicles in order for UAVs to operate
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The U.S. Air Force is cutting down its unmanned aerial vehicle missions in an effort to ease the workload of its airmen and intelligence operators and sustain combat air patrols over the next 10 years,
MoreScientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a palm-sized drone, dubbed the Cicada, that can be dropped from a plane to perform military missions in a remote area. The Covert Autonomous
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