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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Unmanned underwater vehicle advancements surface at 2006 Sea-Air-Space exposition Major industry players demonstrated the first solutions to support the U.S. Navy's "Mission Reconfigurable Unmanned Undersea Vehicle System" master plan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 Courtney E. Howard	UUVs to Benefit Undersea Combat Forces Industry innovators are launching competitive designs of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), with the winners earning an early slot in the U.S. Navy's UUV Master Plan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John Keller	Swimming Robots Navy experts and industry leaders are looking into the latest generation of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) for maritime applications ranging from training to covertly deploying weapons.
National Defense September 2013 Dan Parsons	Bigger Brains, Better Batteries Will Enable New Missions For Robotic Submarines As the Navy takes on a larger role in national security strategy following the conclusion of two land wars, unmanned underwater vehicles may have another shot at becoming a technology favored in future budgets.
National Defense June 2009 Matthew Rusling	Navy to Explore New Ways to Employ Underwater Robots The goal is to deploy unmanned vehicles that can find buried mines, pinpoint enemy submarines and help to protect coastal areas from terrorist attacks.
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin	Navy Adjusts Course for Underwater Robots The Navy is updating its blueprint for future undersea robotic vehicles to reflect recent changes in military strategy.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale	Customizing to Their Needs Commercial off-the-shelf technologies have streamlined components in defense applications, but some mission-critical situations call for products that must be designed from the ground up to aid war fighters on the battlefield.
National Defense September 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	As Technology Matures, New Roles Emerge for Underwater Drones While unmanned underwater vehicle technology is advancing, it is not maturing as quickly as UAVs.
National Defense April 2012 Antoine Martin	U.S. Expands Use Of Underwater Unmanned Vehicles There are today an estimated 450 underwater unmanned vehicles in the U.S. military inventory.
National Defense April 2014 David Antanitus	Sailor-Less Ships Soon Could Be a Reality in U.S. Navy Is the Navy ready to embrace an autonomous surface ship operating with the battle group? Probably not, at least not yet.
National Defense June 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Underwater Drone Manufacturers Eye New Power Technologies Experts agree that the future of unmanned underwater vehicles is bright, with more investment expected from both the government and commercial sector. However, power generation continues to be a conundrum for engineers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2007 John Keller	Ocean Mines Have Nowhere to Hide The U.S. Navy prepares to deploy several new mine-detection and disposal systems that employ a wide variety of electro-optic, signal-processing, and machine-automation technologies.
National Defense November 2007 Breanne Wagner	Navy's Mine-Hunting Technologies Wait for The Littoral Combat Ship The Navy has a new suite of anti-mine technologies designed to roll on and off a ship as needed. It just doesn't have the ship yet.
National Defense March 2010 Grace V. Jean	Shifting Sailors' Workload to Robots Still Wishful Thinking Unmanned vehicles are manpower-intensive technologies that require human control and monitoring often on a one-to-one basis.
Popular Mechanics December 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman	4 Challenges for the Navy as More Unmanned Drones Go Underwater The Navy is getting up to speed with unmanned vehicles.
National Defense April 2008 Grace Jean	Navy to Deploy Robotic Sub Hunters The Navy this fall plans to test new unmanned vehicles and sensors that were specially designed to detect diesel-electric submarines in coastal waters.
National Defense September 2013 Valerie Insinna	Navy Anticipates Smoother Waters for LCS Mine Countermeasures Module The service is testing a mission module comprised of various countermine systems, some of which have encountered setbacks that have forced it to scrap and rework certain plans. Navy officials say that the ship will be ready to hunt mines in 2019.
National Defense March 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy's Acquisition Methods Slow Down Deployment of Undersea Robots The Navy recently experienced sticker shock when estimates for a robotic mine-hunting vehicle came in at more than $12 million apiece, or 51 percent higher than expected.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Roger Joel	Unmanned Vehicles: Autonomous and on-Target Perhaps the single biggest challenge-both to truly autonomous unmanned vehicle designers and to the widespread military deployment of unmanned vehicles-is obstacle recognition and avoidance.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	New Ship Takes Lead in Countermine and Anti-Submarine Warfare The Navy's Littoral Combat Ship will use a broad range of autonomous and semiautonomous surface and subsurface vehicles, as well as advanced networking communications, for use against terrorists as well as conventional foes.
National Defense December 2011 John Edwards	Remote Controllers -- Unmanned Vehicle Operators Require Diversity of Skills In today's era of tighter budgets and ever more sophisticated flight control technologies, the military is increasingly relying on remotely piloted, unmanned vehicle systems for a wide range of tasks, including intelligence gathering, remote surveillance and target applications.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Are Autonomous Naval Vessels the Next Big Wave? Just as drones have proliferated in the skies, Navy and industry officials say unmanned systems also will take to the world's waterways in greater numbers.
National Defense March 2008 Breanne Wagner	Navy Slows Pursuit of Autonomous Vessels for Coastal Surveillance The Navy has expressed interest in acquiring unmanned vessels that would patrol coastal areas, but budgetary and technological issues are slowing down the development and procurement of these vehicles.
National Defense June 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Navy's Minesweeping Unmanned Vessel on Schedule Textron Systems won the $33.8 million contract in September and completed its preliminary design review this spring. No significant issues were discovered, according to Textron.
National Defense November 2014 Valerie Insinna	Motherships May Overwhelm Future Adversaries With Robot Hordes Military agencies and defense contractors have created design concepts and fledgling programs that embody Hydra's survivability and versatility
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	UUV Mothership to Deploy Intelligence-Gathering Unmanned Underwater Vehicles in Development by SAIC U.S. Navy researchers are developing an autonomous submarine that gathers military intelligence information in coastal waters and harbors by deploying and operating small unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs).
National Defense January 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Navy's Long-Endurance Underwater Drone to Begin Deep-Ocean Navigation The system has been in the works for years. It is being designed as an underwater vehicle that can travel across oceans for long periods of time without refueling.
National Defense October 2012 Dan Parsons	Marines Counting on Robots to Keep Them Out of Harm's Way Marine Corps researchers are on the constant lookout for technologies that can keep ground troops out of harm's way or make their tough jobs easier. Autonomous robots -- on land, sea and in the air -- are increasingly seen as an end to that means.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 Courtney E. Howard	U.S. Navy Officials Announce Milestones During Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition U.S. Navy officials revealed several firsts at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, including the acceptance and deployment of two new minesweeping warships and the debut of a research-and-development center.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Ben Ames	Sailors Map the Battlespace with Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Useful for oceanography and oil surveying as well as military exercises, the vehicles range from diameters of 21 inches down to 12 and nine inches. In the future, sailors and scientists will collect data even faster and cheaper by operating several AUVs from a single vessel.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale	Unmanned Vehicles: A Tactical Advantage and a Rich Market The obvious advantage on the battlefield translates into greater demand for all types of unmanned vehicles creating an industry that some estimate will have a value of about $22 billion worldwide in 10 years-and that is just for UAVs, the most mature unmanned platform.
National Defense August 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	More Sophisticated, Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft on the Horizon In the future, unmanned aerial systems will hold even more utility as they become faster, stealthier and more autonomous, experts said. At the same time, they will become more accessible to foreign countries and terrorist groups around the world.
National Defense August 2014 Valerie Insinna	Military Ponders Future of Robotic Cargo Movers The K-MAX unmanned helicopter was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 to haul cargo in and out of warzones. It allowed U.S. forces to cut ground convoys that were vulnerable to roadside bombs.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Lora G. Weiss	Autonomous Robots in the Fog of War Networks of autonomous robots will someday transform warfare, but significant hurdles remain.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006	Navy Navigates Unmanned Undersea Vehicle with Lockheed Martin Sensor Under a $10.6 million contract, Lockheed Martin engineers will integrate a sensor array capable of 3D obstacle detection and classification, VHF communication, and 3D bathymetry into the Navy's Advanced Development Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	QinetiQ to Play Strategic Role in United Kingdom Taranis UAV Technology Demonstrator Program Computer experts at QinetiQ in Farnborough, England, will provide flight-critical software for the United Kingdom initiative to develop a world-class unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology demonstrator called Taranis.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	The time has come for military ground robots Military robots for ground applications are coming into their own as U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) leaders are increasing their reliance on unmanned ground vehicles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John Keller	Navy looks into how to control next-generation autonomous unmanned aircraft U.S. Navy experts are redesigning the unmanned aerial vehicle control station of the future -- to accommodate new technologies and futuristic pilotless aircraft, and to reduce military manning levels by introducing more machine autonomy.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 John Keller	Vetronics of the Future Combat System The electronic and optoelectronic technologies of the future battlefield will help provide unprecedented situational awareness and maneuver capability to U.S. and allied ground troops.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	General Dynamics Robotic Systems Wins U.S. Navy USV Contract Officials at The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center have awarded General Dynamics Robotic Systems an $8.5 million contract for two Unmanned Surface Vehicles for the Littoral Combat Ship Anti-Submarine Warfare Mission Module.
National Defense November 2009 Grace V. Jean	Robotic Humvees Resupply Troops Downrange The Defense Department is pushing hard for the development of fully autonomous robots that can replenish supplies, evacuate casualties and even search for explosives.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale	Robots Are Fearless The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program will integrate unmanned ground vehicles into a future force. Autonomous ground vehicles promise to be a major paradigm shift in ground warfare.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Technology Spending Will Target Current and Future Navy Fleet The Navy should direct its future science, research and technology spending to both improving the current fleet and designing next-generation systems, officials say.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale	Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance.
National Defense November 2012 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Become Lighter, Faster In the future, the military can expect to have unmanned aerial vehicles that are faster, stealthier and lighter, with longer endurance and can hold heavier payloads.
National Defense November 2015 Jon Harper	Navy Working on 'Sci-Fi' Weapons The Navy's research-and-development dollars are going toward systems that will help the service stay ahead of advanced weaponry being developed by China and other potential adversaries.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller	Unmanned Vehicles Leave Boot Camp to Join the Regular Forces Unmanned vehicles are becoming plentiful on-and over-the modern battlefield, yet these automated systems until recently have been seen largely as military curiosities, not standard equipment. That's all about to change.
Popular Mechanics August 14, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Autonomous Autos: New Kit Converts Any Vehicle Into a Robot (With Video) Utah-based Kairos Autonomi sells a conversion kit called the Pronto4 Strap-On Autonomy System that can transform any steered vehicle into an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller	A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006	BAE Systems leadership sees growth in C4ISR funding BAE Systems North America's corporate leadership on the defense electronics industry discusses market outlook for next 5-10 years, best way to get products and designs in front of decision makers, and more.