Defense Robotics News
Latest Defense Robotics news and analysis — 37 articles tagged Defense Robotics on The Robotics Media.
- U.S. Army Awards Heaviside Industries $99M For MOTH Drone-Detection Sensor — — The U.S. Army has awarded Marina del Rey defense startup Heaviside Industries a five-year contract worth up to $99 million to field the MOTH handheld...
- XTEND Wins Up To $15M NATO Deal Amid Shift Off Chinese Drones — — Israeli-American AI drone maker XTEND signed a multi-year contract worth up to $15 million with a European NATO member's Ministry of Defense, with $4....
- US Army Advances Five Vendors To Manufacturing After SRR Drone Fly-Off — — Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics were picked for manufacturing-readiness assessments after the Army's platoon-level Short R...
- Stratom Wins US Army TALUS Contract For Contested Logistics — — The U.S. Army has picked a Stratom-led team of Forterra, ND Defense, GS Engineering and Waltonen to build TALUS, a modular autonomous distribution sys...
- DHS Awards $1.5B Counter-Drone Deal to Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT and Others — — The Department of Homeland Security has split up to $1.5 billion in counter-UAS work across 14 vendors including Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT, Fortem, D-...
- Marines Fly VXE30 Stalker As FPV Drone Truck For Neros Archer Strikes — — Advanced Infantry Training Battalion Marines just flew a VXE30 Stalker as a mothership for Neros Technologies' Archer FPV drone in a live-fire test at...
- Naval Academy Launches Drones From Yard Patrol Craft In First-Ever YP NEXT Block — — Midshipmen just wrapped the U.S. Naval Academy's inaugural YP NEXT training block, using Yard Patrol craft as motherships for Havoc AI's Rampage, Blac...
- Marines Buy 10 V2X Tempest Counter-UAS Trucks In $19.06M Pentagon Award — — The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered 10 V2X Tempest mobile counter-UAS vehicles under a $19.06 million Pentagon contract, adding another kinetic layer to...
- Marine Corps Moves To Sole-Source Anduril Pulsar-L Counter-Drone Kits For ACVs — — The U.S. Marine Corps published a Notice of Intent to sole-source Anduril's Pulsar-L electronic warfare jammer to arm Amphibious Combat Vehicles again...
- AeroVironment Locks In $117M Army Order For 82 P550 Reconnaissance Drones — — AeroVironment has been awarded a $117.3M US Army production contract for 82 P550 eVTOL uncrewed aircraft under the service's Long Range Reconnaissance...
- DHS Fires The Starting Gun On $1.5B Counter-Drone IDIQ, Awards 12 Firms — — The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a five-year, $1.5 billion counter-UAS IDIQ split between 12 vendors, with Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT, L...
- Korean Quadrupeds Join Combat Drills As Rainbow, Lion And Ghost Race For The Battlefield — — South Korea's Rainbow Robotics, Lion Robotics and LIG Nex1's Ghost Robotics are training four-legged robots alongside tanks and Marines as Seoul races...
- Gecko Robotics Opens Sewickley Manufacturing Hub To Speed U.S. Navy Component Production — — Pittsburgh unicorn Gecko Robotics is opening a 10,000-square-foot manufacturing and integration facility in Sewickley, Pennsylvania to help defense ma...
- Target Arm's Ralar 2 Turns HDT's Hunter WOLF UGV Into A Moving, Pilotless Drone Base — — Target Arm announced July 27 that its Ralar 2 launch-and-recovery arm now integrates with HDT Global's Hunter WOLF and WOLF-X unmanned ground vehicles...
- Kratos Wins ~$156M NNSA Contract To Field Mobile Counter-Drone Systems — — Kratos Defense secured a sole-source ~$156 million IDIQ contract from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration Office...
- Anduril, Archer Aviation Unveil Thunder Autonomous Attack Tiltrotor At Farnborough — — Anduril and Archer Aviation debuted Thunder, a hybrid-electric Group 5 tilt-rotor built to fly alongside U.S. Army Apache and Cheyenne II attack helic...
- Helsing Picks West Virginia For $50M HX-2 Strike-Drone Factory — — Munich defense-AI company Helsing will build its first U.S. Resilience Factory in Martinsburg, West Virginia, investing $50 million to manufacture up...
- Machina Labs Wins Lockheed Martin JASSM Qualification Contract — — Machina Labs has secured a Lockheed Martin qualification contract to supply robotically formed metal components for the JASSM cruise missile, marking...
- Anduril's Arsenal-1 Powers Up For Full Combat Drone Production — — Anduril Industries' 1 million-sq-ft Arsenal-1 factory in Ohio is set for full production this month, with Fury combat drones already rolling off the l...
- AeroVironment Books $80.5M Titan Task Order for Air Force Base Defense — — AeroVironment landed the first purchase order under its $500M Domestic Shield IDIQ, an $80.5M buy of Titan MS counter-UAS systems for Air Force Global...