Sometimes lasting change takes a lot longer than it should. Consider, for example, the U.S. Navy’s testing and training with heavy explosives and high-intensity sonar in species-rich c... Read more
The banana-hued, boxcar-sized drone was on display at the Navy’s Sea-Air-Space conference this week in National Harbor, Md. It can stay underwater for 30 days – and launch weapons. Military... Read more
U.S. Navy researchers have demonstrated swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) designed to overwhelm an adversary autonomously as the UAVs fly together like flocks of birds. UAV experts at... Read more
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) efforts face a militarily resurgent Russia, a strengthening China, and proliferating quiet diesel-electric submarines that could shift the global naval balance o... Read more
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) this week launched a study that could lead to breakthroughs in creating the next-generation of avatars, robots and other human surrogates for military trai... Read more
Marines tested an augmented reality system from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) last week that could revolutionize the way they prepare for battle, allowing them to transform any location... Read more
The Navy sees a lot of advantages in having “swarmboats.” Developed by the Office of Naval Research, the Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing, or CARACaS, system can, f... Read more
During the world’s largest international maritime exercise last month, Sailors demonstrated a new system that could transform the future of electronic warfare and defense of ships at s... Read more
Sci-fi authors and gamers have long imagined this day, and now it has come: The U.S. military is developing a laser weapon to shoot enemy drones out of the sky. The Navy has already develope... Read more
Mahmoudian’s AUVs, named ROUGHIEs (for Research Oriented Underwater Gliders for Hands-on Investigative Engineering) will be underwater gliders. Powered only by batteries, they will “fly” slo... Read more
Fire-fighting robots designed to withstand intense heat are to be tested by the US Navy this summer. The Shipboard Autonomous Fire-fighting Robot (SAFFiR) has been built by engineers at Virg... Read more
Catapulting ahead AS A jet fighter screams away from the deck of an aircraft-carrier a swirl of vapour trails from the steam-driven catapult that launched it into the air. Catapults are an a... Read more
“The operational unmanned aircraft soon to be developed have the opportunity to radically change the way presence and combat power are delivered from our aircraft carriers.” The... Read more
An event as historic as the Navy’s first catapult of a manned aircraft, which occurred in Nov. 1915 Northrop Grumman Corp. and the U.S. Navy made carrier-capable unmanned aircraft his... Read more
The robot apocalypse came a step closer as Northrop Grumman and the US Navy carried out a successful carrier-style landing of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator. The te... Read more
