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Wisk, New Zealand Government announce passenger transport trial featuring self-flying air taxi

February 5, 2020
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Urban Air Mobility (UAM) company Wisk is partnering with the New Zealand Government to establish a passenger transport trial in Canterbury, New Zealand utilizing Cora, Wisk’s self-flying, all-electric air taxi.

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Northrop Grumman brings DA/RC view to the modern battlefield

February 5, 2020
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Northrop Grumman makes plenty of intelligent systems, including unmanned ones, and so do many other defense contractors. The company would like to allow them to all work together, seamlessly, while requiring relatively little human oversight: what it calls Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)

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Huntington Ingalls Industries acquires marine robotics developer Hydroid Inc.

February 4, 2020
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Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has announced that it will acquire Hydroid Inc., which will expand its capabilities in the “strategically important and rapidly growing” autonomous and unmanned maritime systems market, the company says.

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Skyfront, Silvus Technologies partner to produce long-range UAS

January 30, 2020
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As a result of a partnership with Silvus Technologies, hybrid-electric UAS provider Skyfront has combined its five-hour endurance Perimeter UAS with Silvus’ high-power StreamCaster radios, resulting in the Perimeter XLRS, which can fly for up to five hours while maintaining command and control links and streaming real-time video up to 60 miles from the ground control station.

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DARPA’s OFFSET program deploys swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles during third field experiment

January 30, 2020
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DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to demonstrate a raid in an urban area during the agency's third field experiment.

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Royal Australian Navy, Defence Science and Technology Group showcase AUVs during Summerfest event

January 29, 2020
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During the inaugural ‘Summerfest’ event at HMAS Creswell, Jervis Bay in Dec. 2019, the Royal Australian Navy and the Defence Science and Technology Group showcased new capability in the use of AUVs.

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AFRL, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions complete fourth flight test of XQ-58A Valkyrie UAS

January 27, 2020
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On Jan. 23, 2020, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and its partner Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. successfully completed the fourth flight test of the XQ-58A Valkyrie low-cost UAS demonstrator at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

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Navy’s first MQ-4C Triton UAS arrive in Guam for initial deployment in Pacific theater

January 27, 2020
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The Navy’s first MQ-4C Triton UAS have arrived in Guam for their initial deployment in the Pacific theater.

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GA-ASI begins Multi-Domain Operations demonstrations with Gray Eagle Extended Range UAS

January 23, 2020
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Using a company-owned Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) UAS, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) completed the first in a series of internally-funded Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) demonstrations on Nov. 19, 2019, the company has announced.

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Dynetics’ X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle completes first flight

January 21, 2020
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Dynetics, the performer for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gremlins program, has announced that in Nov. 2019, it successfully flew its X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) for the first time at Dugway Proving Ground near Salt Lake City, Utah.

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