Story by Brianna Hodges | Air Force Research Laboratory | 07.03.2025
The U.S. Air Force recently demonstrated a major leap in human-machine teaming, flying autonomous collaborative platforms (ACPs), alongside crewed fighter aircraft during a training event at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Pilots operating an F-16C Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle each controlled two XQ-58A Valkyrie aircraft in an air combat training scenario, showcasing real-time......
Story by Chelsie Holloway | Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic | 06.09.2025
TROIA, PORTUGAL— Engineers from the Unmanned Naval Innovation Team (UNIT) at Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic in Charleston, South Carolina, took technology designed to improve the command and control (C2) capabilities of self-driving boats to a demonstration in Portugal. UNIT brought the UxS “Vesuvius Spiral 2” to Centro de Experimentação Operacional da Marinha (CEOM)......
Story by Matthew C Clouse | Air Force Research Laboratory | 08.15.2024
AFWERX Autonomy Prime partners Joby and Reliable Robotics demonstrated how autonomous aviation can contribute to the Agile Combat Employment concept by flying daily autonomous logistics missions during the Air Force exercise AGILE FLAG 24-3 at Mojave Air and Space Port, California, Aug. 5-9, 2024....
Story by Rebecca Ward | Office of Naval Research | 04.23.2024
Student engineering teams from Princeton, Washington College and the University of Alabama have won first place in their respective events at the “Promoting Electric Propulsion” (PEP) boat races, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE). In just six years, this electric boat-building competition has grown from a single......
Story by Steve Ghiringhelli | Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic | 03.27.2024
NIWC Atlantic wrapped up its largest-ever annual System of Systems Naval Integration Experiment event on March 22 to advance joint all-domain warfighting concepts across the command....
Story by Warren Duffie | Office of Naval Research | 07.25.2022
Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Lorin Selby gave remarks on July 20, during the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. The annual three-day conference provides a non-partisan public venue for government officials, business executives, leading academics and noted journalists to discuss the most pressing national security and foreign policy challenges of our time....
Story by Jeremy Roman | Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division | 05.20.2022
The annual competition charges Departments A - Littoral and Mine Warfare, E - Expeditionary and Maritime Systems and X - Science and Technology, to manufacture an autonomous vehicle to overcome the specific challenges that accompany the respective course. This year, the major challenge was to design a ‘robot’ that could traverse from water to land in order to locate specific areas on the......
Story by 1st Lt. Christine Del Aguila | Air Force Test Center | 06.29.2021
Orange Flag 21-2 brought in two new objectives to the large force test event: autonomy and Emerald Flag collaboration. The test event hosted by Air Force Test Center’s 412th Test Wing at Edwards AFB, California, occurred June 24, 2021....
