by dankeelan | Dec 8, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Defense, Military
Kodiak Robotics Inc., a self-driving technology company active in trucking, announced in a blog post this month that the Army and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) selected it for a 24-month, $49.9 million agreement to adapt its self-driving platform, Kodiak Driver,...
by dankeelan | Nov 3, 2022 | Defense, Drones, Military
The current pattern of conflict in Ukraine suggests that the age of drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. Army, which leads joint efforts to counter the threat posed by unmanned air systems, anticipated this development years ago and has identified means for tracking...
by dankeelan | Oct 27, 2022 | Defense, Drones, Featured
The U.S. Navy is reportedly working towards making the nightmarish drone swarms seen in Call of Duty and movies like Angel has Fallen a reality in modern combat. These AI enabled flocks of autonomous buzzing drones could potentially be launched to overwhelm...
by dankeelan | Sep 29, 2022 | Defense, Featured, Space
For the first time in history, a spacecraft from Earth has crashed into an asteroid to test a way to save our planet from extinction. The spacecraft, NASA’s Double Asteroid Rendezvous Test (DART) probe, slammed into a small asteroid 7 million...
by dankeelan | Aug 4, 2022 | Autonomous Ships, Defense, Robots
Robotic ships have officially joined the US Navy. The Program Executive Office, Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) announced on July 22 that the Navy’s Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) uncrewed minesweeper has been awarded Initial Operating Capability...
by dankeelan | Aug 4, 2022 | 6G, Defense
The Department of Defense is helping to fund a new technology hub focused on 6G communications technology. The project, known as Open6G, is part of the Pentagon’s Innovate Beyond 5G (IB5G) program that aims to promote the next generation of high-tech network...
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