AUTONOMY AND MANUFACTURING

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 Read More

The Department of Defense recently announced the release of the DOD Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy. The strategy stresses the need for freedom of action in the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) – at the time, place, and Read More

The Defense Department has requested $449 million US for 5G work to be performed in 2021 and has already announced two waves, or “tranches,” of pilot projects. The tranches will focus on how the military Read More

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has issued a broad agency announcement to define concepts for the Sea-Based Terminal Future Interceptor. The Interceptor would be used in future for sea-based terminal defenses against hypersonic glide Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

Researchers from the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas have received a $780,000 grant from the Army Research Laboratory to study the combustion engines used in aerial Army drones. Read More

Horizon31 – a spin out from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – seeks to commercialize a system that allows users to operate drones from anywhere in the world using only an Read More

The Defense Department’s technology innovation unit (DIU) recently approved five U.S. companies for drone production as alternatives to Chinese-made systems. Altavian, Parrot SA, Skydio, Teal, and Vantage Robotics are now all approved to provide Airborne Read More