USVs

SCO, Navy Eye More Unmanned Overlord Demonstrations

Overlord is the Pentagon's somewhat secretive USV development program to inform the technology and capabilities that will one day be aboard most unmanned Navy ships and subs.

Teledyne-FLIR Merger Creates Tactical Drone Powerhouse

The combined company will offer a wide range of unmanned vehicles (mostly small ones) for air, land, sea, and underwater, said exec Roger Wells.

Congress Pumps The Brakes On Navy, Demands Answers From OSD

Lawmakers “are frustrated by the Navy's last decade of cost overruns on new programs, programs being late, and technology being the thing that holds them up,” Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute says.

HASC NDAA Cuts F-35, Adds Sub, Sets Up Senate Clash

The HASC draft largely agrees with SASC on cutting robot ships and adding manned ones, but the two are far apart on Joint Strike Fighters.

SASC Trims Hypersonics & Robot Ships, Boosts Ships & F-35

Skeptical senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee want to slow down bleeding-edge prototypes, while building up more traditional weapons.

The Spectacular & Public Collapse of Navy Force Planning

Planning for a 21st century Navy of unmanned vessels, distributed operations, and great power competition has collapsed. Trapped by a 355-ship force goal, a reduced budget, and a fixed counting methodology, the Navy can’t find a feasible solution to the difficult question of how its forces should be structured. As a result, the Navy postponed […]

232 Unmanned Ships May Be Key To Countering China, Russia

WASHINGTON: The Navy is scrambling to write its new acquisition and operational playbook on the fly, a decision based as much on what US rivals are doing as it is on what the service hasn’t done in recent decades. The construction and innovation booms being undertaken by the Chinese — and to a lesser extent […]