https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/12/17/counterdrone-tech-struggles-to-keep-up-with-evolving-threat VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia — During the last year, the Navy alone has spent more than $1 billion shooting down missiles and uncrewed aerial systems in the Red Sea — an expense made unsustainable by the sheer proliferation of relatively inexpensive drones in battle zones. The Defense Department is scrambling for affordable and adaptable counter-drone [...]

R oyal Marines have trained with drone swarms in what is thought to be a first for the UK's armed forces, as the Ministry of Defence looks to move the military further into the 21st century. In a first for the UK's armed forces, Royal Marines have used drone swarms to assist in battle drills. [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than 10 years of technology and product development, AimLock, which is based in Littleton, Colorado and specializes in bringing intelligent fire control systems and semi-autonomous, precision-targeting technology to the battlefield, is making its work public at the 2021 AUSA conference in Washington, D.C. Subsequently, AimLock is rolling out their [...]

The Department of Defense (DOD) and The Texas A&M University System co-sponsored Drone Venture Day, where U.S. manufacturers of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and Counter-UAS (C-UAS) had the unique opportunity to meet with trusted capital providers to explore mutually beneficial business partnerships focused on national security concerns. Drone Venture Day represented the inaugural event [...]

With an appearance that looks like something from a sci-fi movie, the AimLock MRR mid-range rifle chassis is a sensor-based platform that gives Soldiers computer-based targeting and fire control. “AimLock™ technology dramatically increases hit probability and reduces time-to-engagement by autonomously detecting targets, ‘locking’ onto the prioritized target, and auto-correcting the weapon’s aim point to [...]

Created under a Partnership Intermediary Agreement between Doolittle Institute and the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), SOFWERX is a non-profit organization that facilitates collaborations with small businesses, innovators, academia, industry, government & innovation spaces to solve warfighter problems. One of their biggest yearly events is ThunderDrone RPE, which showcases new, novel, and provocative [...]