The market survey request comes out two weeks after USAF fighters shot down a Chinese high-altitude balloon with apparent surveillance systems aboard.

The U.S. government will rewrite the rulebook for aerial objects flying over U.S. airspace, President Joe Biden said.

The U.S. government has approved BAE to integrate the AAR-57 Common Missile Warning System with Leonardo’s Miysis Directed Infrared Countermeasure system.

The UK Royal Navy is set to operate Schiebel’s Camcopter rotary-wing uncrewed air system from its Type 23 frigates.

The first U.S. surveillance fleet with a craft beer as a namesake inherits a counter-drug spy mission flown by a four-decade-old string of modified turboprops.

Asked whether the objects shot down on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11 were balloons, Schumer replied, “They believe they were, yes."

Key lawmakers are already calling for improvements to air surveillance to better detect high-altitude intrusions over the U.S.

The goals of the effort suggest a future battlefield in which robotic air/ground teams are able to perform missions with little risk to human operators.