This report summarizes information about various unmanned aerial systems (UAS) platforms currently used for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). The applicability of various UAS platforms and sensor payloads for specific types of...
July 31, 2018 | Source: Popular Science, popsci.com, 22 June 2018, Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer
Qianlong III, a Chinese autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), has dived deep into the South China Sea, undertaking a nearly 100-mile, 42-hour voyage. It looks like a clownfish from...
Many artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technologies, including the cutting-edge ones, are dual use technologies. They have civilian and military applications. Besides...
The Federal Aviation Administration wants to convene experts and explore research on multiple-unmanned aircraft systems operations as the agency works to prepare for an...
People can look at the same technology and disagree about how it will shape the future, explains Paul Scharre as he shares a final perspective on the Slaughterbots debate. Paul...
DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program envisions future small-unit infantry forces using small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and/or small unmanned ground...
The U.S. Navy is accelerating efforts to place the weapon systems on guided missile destroyers. The U.S. Navy has identified laser weapons as an urgent capability need, and after...
The emergence of inexpensive small unmanned aircraft systems (sUASs) that operate without a human pilot, commonly known as drones, has led to adversarial groups threatening...
Defense contractor BAE Systems is developing a new microwave for naval clients, and it isn't for the galley. Its High Powered Microwave deck-mounted array is designed to target...
What studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of directed energy weapons against air systems? DSIAC staff were requested to research and compile a list of...