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#Autonomy is becoming increasingly prevalent in sectors ranging from manufacturing and industrial equipment to automotive and aviation. Consequently, companies in advanced air mobility (#AAM) are developing various levels of autonomous aircraft to transport people and goods more efficiently for numerous applications, such as emergency services, agriculture, defense, industrial operations, and search and rescue missions. Ensuring the system's #functional #safety and #cybersecurity compliance with all relevant industry standards, including the Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) 4754 and ARP 4761 from SAE, as well as the Military Standard (MIL-STD) 882E System Safety from the U.S. Department of Defense, is crucial. 👉Check out this blog.

#Autonomy is becoming increasingly prevalent in sectors ranging from manufacturing and industrial equipment to automotive and aviation. Consequently, companies in advanced air mobility (#AAM) are developing various levels of autonomous aircraft to transport people and goods more efficiently for numerous applications, such as emergency services, agriculture, defense, industrial operations, and search and rescue missions. Ensuring the system's #functional #safety and #cybersecurity compliance with all relevant industry standards, including the Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) 4754 and ARP 4761 from SAE, as well as the Military Standard (MIL-STD) 882E System Safety from the U.S. Department of Defense, is crucial. 👉Check out this blog.

#Autonomy is becoming increasingly prevalent in sectors ranging from manufacturing and industrial equipment to automotive and aviation. Consequently, companies in advanced air mobility (#AAM) are developing various levels of autonomous aircraft to transport people and goods more efficiently for numerous applications, such as emergency services, agriculture, defense, industrial operations, and search and rescue missions. Ensuring the system's #functional #safety and #cybersecurity compliance with all relevant industry standards, including the Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) 4754 and ARP 4761 from SAE, as well as the Military Standard (MIL-STD) 882E System Safety from the U.S. Department of Defense, is crucial. 👉Check out this blog.

#Autonomy is becoming increasingly prevalent in sectors ranging from manufacturing and industrial equipment to automotive and aviation. Consequently, companies in advanced air mobility (#AAM) are developing various levels of autonomous aircraft to transport people and goods more efficiently for numerous applications, such as emergency services, agriculture, defense, industrial operations, and search and rescue missions. Ensuring the system's #functional #safety and #cybersecurity compliance with all relevant industry standards, including the Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) 4754 and ARP 4761 from SAE, as well as the Military Standard (MIL-STD) 882E System Safety from the U.S. Department of Defense, is crucial. 👉Check out this blog.

Anduril Industries, the defense tech startup run by Palmer Luckey, has just been awarded a major contract by the US Air Force, beating out legacy names like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Anduril, founded in 2017, has been contracted to design and test autonomous fighter jets as part of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, a core part of the Air Force's efforts to modernize its fleet. The joint contract will be split between Anduril and General Atomics. The companies will now work on designing, manufacturing, and testing the unmanned aircraft and drones. The decision proves just how important autonomy and AI are to the future of US national security strategy. https://lnkd.in/eYYyKeeE

Overwatch Group, a UK-based end-to-end design and manufacture company specialising in advanced unmanned system and munitions technologies, and PteroDynamics Inc., an innovator in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft systems, today announced a landmark long-term strategic relationship and the first distribution agreement to bring the pioneering dual-use autonomous Transwing® (VTOL) to certain territories outside the United States. Overwatch will be the exclusive sales representative of the Transwing® unmanned aerial systems (UAS) aircraft on behalf of PteroDynamics within the United Kingdom (UK) for all non-commercial sales, and in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for all prospective commercial and defence sales. Overwatch has also made a strategic investment in PteroDynamics. As the first distributor for this technology, Overwatch will help expand the employment of the Transwing® aircraft platform outside the United States, starting in the UK, UAE, and KSA. Overwatch will bring its engineering expertise in unmanned systems and payloads to satisfy requirements for potential customers in these territories. PteroDynamics’ Transwing® is a revolutionary VTOL aircraft system that overcomes the limitations inherent in other VTOL designs by marrying the speed, range, and endurance of fixed-wing aircraft with superior VTOL performance in an efficient, highly automated platform. The aircraft folds its wings to transition seamlessly between vertical and winged horizontal flight, requires no additional launch and recovery infrastructure, and occupies a minimal footprint, making it immediately ready for VTOL operations out of the box. Its unique performance characteristics provide defence and commercial operators with a more cost-effective, autonomous alternative for critical logistics resupply and other missions to remote locations without runways, which are currently undertaken by crewed aircraft, boats, or other less practical means. #military #defense #defence #militaryleak https://lnkd.in/gB6DZ7gi

Reposting + highlighting a fantastic comment by Warren Katz: “Replicator had so much potential to actually change business models, but it appears to have backslid. The Army is bragging about three (3) systems being included in Replicator and that's the record? There should have been 100 vendors invited to (even paid to) integrate their existing UAS's (ideally via an easy to integrate JADC2) into the Replicator architecture. Then OSD run competitions monthly to see who has the best new UAS, giving LRIP purchase orders to the winning vendors in each category (best drone for under $1K, $10K, $100K, best drone that can go more than 100 miles, 1000 miles, carry 2.2kg, 5kg, 100kg, etc.). After 6 months there should have been 25 vendors making hundreds to thousands each, a half dozen new vendors added monthly, thousands being delivered monthly, and the losers being told exactly why they lost and invited back when they've broken some performance threshold. OSD better figure out how to create this fluid market immediately or we're toast. While taking systems that have been in development for 5 to 10 years is infinitely better than starting from scratch (which would have been the absolute kiss of death), this "yearly-feeling" technological OODA loop is nowhere near as tight as it needs to be.”

The #USNavy is making significant progress on its Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (#LUSV) program, which aims to develop large #autonomous ships to supplement the fleet's missile capacity as part of the Distributed Maritime Operations concept. The U.S. Navy is holding an #IndustryDay on June 10, 2024 to brief industry on the LUSV program's vision, schedule, and technical requirements in order to accelerate USV development and procurement. This demonstrates the Navy's commitment to advancing unmanned maritime capabilities. Key milestones: 1. Four teams successfully completed 720-hour tests of different engine configurations, demonstrating their capability to operate for extended periods without human intervention: 1. Bollinger Motors and Carter Machinery; 2. Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) and Carter Machinery; 3. Leidos Gibbs & Cox and Southwest Research Institute; 4. HUNTINGTON INGALLS INCORPORATED (HII), in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard, 2. The Navy christened its first purpose-built unmanned surface vessel, Vanguard, which will join prototypes Mariner and Ranger for tactical development of USV concepts. 3. The Navy plans to issue a formal requirement for a production LUSV this year, with the first order potentially in FY2025 at an estimated cost of $315 million. Meanwhile, the Royal Australian Navy is exploring similar concepts with its Large Optionally Manned Surface Vessels (LOSVs) program. Austal and partners recently completed successful sea trials of an autonomous former patrol boat called Sentinel. Australia is considering the U.S. LUSV as a potential solution for its LOSV program.

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorisation Act of 2024 by a vote of 387 to 26, reports a press release This Bipartisan legislation reauthorises the FAA during the next five years, to issue a notice of proposed rule-making for Unmanned Aircraft System (#UAS) operations beyond Visual Line of Sight (#BVLOS) within four months. The bill also includes a mandate for the FAA to publish a final special rule for the use of powered lift aircraft within seven months, which will help to speed up the development of the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Industry.  https://lnkd.in/eY8r47dm #FAAReauthorisationAct #UASoperations #BVLOS #aviationindustry #FAAbill #aircraftregulations

The high-performance tactical Remotely Piloted Aerial System (RPAS) SIRTAP has achieved the Critical Design Review (CDR), a technical milestone that freezes the final system architecture and design. The main target of the CDR is to ensure that the level of maturity of the design is ready to start the manufacturing process and it is aligned with the customer requirements. Among the different areas reviewed, alignment between manufacturing capabilities and design principles has been assessed, the maturity of the different systems, sub-systems and equipment has been assured as well as the upcoming validation and verification activities until final system certification by end of 2026. This major programme milestone has been signed off by the Spanish Ministry of Defence, SIRTAP launch customer who, in November 2023, ordered nine systems, each consisting of three unmanned aerial vehicles and one ground control station. The manufacturing of SIRTAP’s first prototype components has started with a significant number of Spanish suppliers involved as well as others located in different countries all over the world. The first flight of the prototype is expected in 2025, which will pave the way to the first delivery in the first half of 2027. #Defence #DefenceMatters