General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Boeing have announced they are partnering to jointly pursue opportunities for a 100 kW-class scalable to 250 kW-class High Energy Laser (HEL) weapon system to support a variety of air and missile defence applications. The partnership combines both companies’ expertise in directed energy to build ...
The annual Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE) event, organised by BiP Solutions, sees the defence and security industry come together to allow SMEs to discover their place in the UK’s £20 billion defence marketplace. This year, due to the impact of COVID-19, the event moved to a virtual platform ...
The joint venture company Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) has won a Ministry of Defence contract worth over £16 million to upgrade and sustain the British Army’s fleet of Fuchs/Fox CBRN reconnaissance vehicles and training simulator. The Fuchs is a 6×6 armoured vehicle with built-in detection equipment for chemical, biological, radiological ...
The self-driving car industry has made great autonomy advances, but mostly for well-structured and highly predictable environments. In complex militarily-relevant settings, robotic vehicles have not demonstrated operationally relevant speed and aren’t autonomously reliable. While vehicle platforms that can handle difficult terrain exist, their autonomy algorithms and software often can’t process ...