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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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Technology Roadmap Calls For No-Nonsense Research Far from being disconnected from the practical concerns of deployed forces, Navy scientists are making it their business to be attuned to the demands of sailors and Marines.
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 August 2011 Grace V. Jean	Drone Sensor Data Will Overload Networks, Navy Officials Warn The expected growth of unmanned systems at sea is raising concerns that the Navy's networks are ill prepared to handle the commensurate flood of data that the sensors will produce.
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy's Unmanned Combat Aircraft Flying Under Cloud of Uncertainty The Navy expects to invest a growing share of its aviation research dollars in unmanned aircraft as it seeks to extend the reach and endurance of its carrier-based air wings.
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 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 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.
National Defense April 2005	Autonomous Craft Explores the Deep A 30-foot unmanned underwater vehicle developed by Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory is performing an array of underwater tasks for the Navy.
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.
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 May 2011 Stew Magnuson	New Applications, Markets Sought For Underwater Communication System A new technology designed to communicate with submarines as they travel stealthily at great depths and speeds is now being looked at as a means to send messages to special operations divers and commands to unmanned underwater vehicles.
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.
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 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 December 2007 John McHale	BAE Systems Funds Own Development of Unmanned Undersea Vehicles Engineers at BAE Systems are diving into the hot autonomous vehicle market with an undersea unmanned vehicle (UUV) they developed without an existing defense contract.
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 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.
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel	Scientists Developing Sub-Tracking Sea Drone The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to McLean, Va.-based Science Applications International Corp. to develop an unmanned vessel that can track these subs for months at a time over thousands of kilometers.
National Defense November 2011 Beidel et al.	10 Technologies the U.S. Military Will Need For the Next War Examples are faster and quieter helicopters, advanced crowd-control weapons, lighter infantry equipment that doesn't overburden troops, ultra-light trucks and better battlefield communications.
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 October 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	New Power Technology for Underwater Drones Open Water Power, a Massachusetts-based start up company, is currently developing a device that uses aluminum-based power systems to juice up underwater drones for what CEO Tom Milnes said is a significant improvement over traditional batteries.
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 October 2005 Harold Kennedy	Surveillance Needs Fuel Demand for Unmanned Vehicles Currently, there are nearly 1,000 robotic vehicles being used for surveillance and reconnaissance, especially in maritime areas in the Central Command theater of operations, and combatant commanders keep asking for more.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Unmanned vehicles: one of the hottest technologies going Unmanned air, ground, and underwater vehicles are finding important new niches in military and aerospace applications.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Threats To Aircraft Carriers Bolster Case for Unmanned Combat Jets The dominance of U.S. aircraft carriers, however, could be one day challenged if future enemies arm themselves with accurate, long-range missiles.
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.
National Defense October 2013 Valerie Insinna	Navy's New Drones Taking Center Stage The Navy finally is developing its own custom unmanned air systems, with the service planning on fielding four new aircraft in the next few years.
National Defense September 2007 Grace Jean	Navy still Years Away From Deploying Attack Drones Aboard Aircraft Carriers Given the Navy's checkered history of flying drones aboard ships, it's not surprising that its first pursuit of an unmanned aircraft geared for carrier operations has progressed cautiously and even with a hint of trepidation.
National Defense June 2009 Matthew Rusling	Gliders Will Aid Naval Research The Navy will acquire underwater gliders to boost its oceanographic research efforts and to help improve the positioning of fleets during naval maneuvers.
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 July 2009 J.R. Wilson	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance.
National Defense October 2005 Harold Kennedy	No Crews Required: Unmanned Vessels Hit the Waves The Navy is experimenting with a new pair of sleek-looking unmanned surface vehicles designed to deploy from on its future Littoral Combat Ship -- a small, fast vessel being designed for coastal warfare.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool January 19, 2012 Rich Smith	Navy Searches for an Underwater Terminator For a few months now, we've been hearing sonar rumblings of a big new Naval project to build a long-endurance, deep-diving robotic submarine.
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 2014 Valerie Insinna	Shipbuilders Bet on Radical Hull Designs to Defeat Swarming Boat Threat There is a need for a highly, highly stabilized craft that are not large, that are smaller, that can be used to patrol and defend the Navy's ships while they're in troubled waters against high-speed boats.
National Defense April 2006 Harold Kennedy	Special Ops Sub Becomes Hub for Irregular Warfare Subs have hosted small numbers of special operators ever since World War II. Until now, however, the vessels have had space to accommodate only a handful of special operators. That is changing with the Ohio (SSGN 726) and its three sister ships.