Shield AI has received an additional $150 million investment from the U.S. Navy to support the X-Bat program, raising overall financing to $400 million.
The U.S. Navy delivered the Joint Digital Autonomy Range framework to Australia, enabling virtual testing of autonomous and collaborative combat aircraft before flight.
Two new U.S. Navy munitions programs are moving ahead with Ursa Major announcing Oct. 5 it received contracts for both the Compact Air-to-Air Missile and the Naval Modular Missile.
An air-launched version of the hypersonic Castelion Blackbeard strike missile has reached the stage of at least captive carry testing on the Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet.
The U.S. Navy’s new nuclear warhead and reentry body for its Trident II D5 Life Extension missile has passed into the engineering and manufacturing design (EMD) phase, the service announced Sept. 24.
The proposed interceptor adds to a wide-ranging push by the U.S. Navy and other services to find ranging answers to the threat of Shahed-class drones and low-flying cruise missiles.
Directed energy is at a precipice for the U.S. military services—the technology is ready, the military services just need to buy in to field it at scale.
The U.S. Navy is looking to bring on surrogate collaborative combat aircraft to learn how to operate the uncrewed systems as it starts to develop its own.
