Kongsberg Gruppen‘s Hydroid subsidiary has demonstrated the capacity of an unmanned underwater vehicle to collect signals intelligence and launch an unmanned aerial vehicle during an in-water exercise. REMUS 600 UUV conducted a threat mission scenario at the U.S. Navy‘s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took place in Newport, Rhode Island last month, Hydroid said Tuesday. The platform was equipped with […] More

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat and mission systems businesses have showcased multiple mission command, control and communication capacities that connected a simulated submarine combat control center with unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles. General Dynamics said Tuesday it linked Bluefin Robotics-built UUVs and AeroVironment‘s Blackwing UAV to the AN/BYG-1 submarine control facility during the 2017 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took […] More

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a mine hunting platform with an Atlas Elektronik-built unmanned surface vehicle at the Unmanned Warrior Exercise hosted by the U.K. navy in Scotland. The ARCIMS autonomous surface vehicle deployed the Northrop-developed AQS-24B mine hunting tool to perform mine detection, classification and localization functions in a simulated mine field during several mission scenarios […] More

General Dynamics’ mission systems business unit demonstrated its autonomous underwater vehicles at the U.S. Navy’s Annual Naval Technology Exercises held in August at the service branch’s Narragansett Bay test facility in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Friday a Bluefin-21 AUV deployed two Bluefin SandShark micro-AUVs to perform target imagery transmission and data collection simulations in one […] More

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a cross-domain anti-submarine warfare approach for autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles during the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Thursday the demonstration featured mission management and control of a multi-vehicle collaborative autonomous system-of-systems designed to search, detect, track, classify and engage submerged targets. Multiple sensors on autonomous undersea, surface […] More

Louis Berger has partnered with three companies to build an innovation center in Newport, Rhode Island as part of an effort to help foster resilience in the seaside city. Louis Berger said Thursday it formed the Newport Project Development Company  with project development firm InfraLinx, construction company Gilbane and international law firm Dentons to help establish the city’s Innovation and Resiliency Center […] More

A PAR Technology subsidiary has received a five-year, $5.1 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate to research, develop, test and evaluate radio frequency communications tools. PAR Technology said Tuesday its government systems business will work to help AFRL address RF technical requirements for military vehicles and weapon systems tests at the U.S. Air Force and other Defense Department components. Matt Cicchinelli, […] More

Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said HII has secured approximately 20 percent of shipbuilding work on the U.S. Navy’s entire Ohio-class replacement program with General Dynamics as prime contractor. He told Defense News reporter Christoper Cavas in an interview published Sunday that ORP prompts HII to align its design plans as well as […] More

Research and Markets forecasts that the military laser systems market for the aerospace, defense and homeland security industries will reach a market value of $2.73 billion within the next six years. This 4.23 percent compound annual growth rate is due to increased research and development activity and a move toward self-sufficiency of some Asia-Pacific and European countries, the firm […] More

John Harris II, Raytheon International CEO, has asked industry and government leaders to build up defense technologies through transatlantic industrial cooperation. Harris addressed his statement to participants of a panel discussion on the future of European defense during the 50th Munich Security Conference, Raytheon said Friday. “We need to pursue initiatives that deliver greater cost efficiencies in […] More