Susan Eustis, lead author of the “Military Drones: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts Worldwide, 2016 to 2022” report, has said the global market for military drones will increase to $8.6 billion by 2022 from $4.4 billion recorded in 2015, Inside Unmanned Systems reported Monday. Eustis told the publication the U.S. accounts for 73 percent of the worldwide […] More

The Defense Department has expressed support to proposals by Lockheed Martin and Boeing to produce their respective F-16 and F-18 fighter jets in India as part of the Make in India program, Hindustan Times reported Monday. Shishir Gupta writes Defense Secretary Ashton Carter relayed DoD’s support to the proposals to Manohar Parrikar, India’s defense minister, during the […] More

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker has said the military branch and companies vying for the MQ-25A Stingray carrier unmanned aerial vehicle program are faced with the challenge of combining tanker and ISR features into one UAV platform, USNI News reported Thursday. Sam LaGrone writes Shoemaker, commander of Naval Air Forces, said during a Center for Strategic and International Studies event that an ideal ISR […] More

The U.S. Air Force has designated the U.S. Navy’s first carrier unmanned aircraft vehicle as MQ-25A Stingray, USNI News reported Friday. Sam LaGrone writes the Navy received the official name and designation for the UAV through a July 11 memo issued by the Air Force Materiel Command. The Air Force assigned the name MQ-25A Stingray, formerly […] More

The U.K. government plans to build its own training center for General Atomics-built unmanned air vehicles as space for allies at the U.S. Air Force’s UAV training school continues to shrink, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the Air Force began to ration the slots for foreign partners at the Holloman Air Force Base in […] More

A Govini report indicates the U.S. military unmanned aerial systems market has experienced a compound annual growth rate of about 6 percent over the past five fiscal years, Defense News reported Wednesday. Lara Seligman writes the research firm observed the Defense Department‘s strategic pivot  to the Asia-Pacific region and efforts to implement a third offset strategy have […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a series of phase one contracts to four companies for proposals to develop unmanned air systems that can be recovered while in flight and are reusable. DARPA said Thursday it selected General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems unit, Lockheed Martin, Dynetics and Composite Engineering to develop launch and recovery techniques, airframe designs, digital […] More

A Custom Market Insights report predicts the military unmanned aerial vehicle market will reach $11 billion in value by 2021 from $3 billion in 2014. “Quantities of fielded military and commercial systems of every size and description are set to increase,” Custom Market Insights said Feb. 3. According to the report, persistent military drones will account […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded an L-3 Communications division a contract to develop 34 units of Predator Mission Aircrew Training System simulators, DefenseWorld.net reported Wednesday. Vishwanath Patil writes L-3 Link will supply PMATS simulators that will be used to train the Air Force and Air National Guard pilots and sensor operator crews of General Atomics-built […] More

Cox Construction has broken ground on a new training facility for the General Atomics-built MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system in California under a $26 million contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, the Army reported Jan. 14. A groundbreaking ceremony took place at the site Jan. 12 with district and service branch officials […] More

The Center for a New American Security has appointed nine executives from the defense, consulting and financial industries to the organization’s board of advisers. CNAS said Thursday that each appointee will serve a three-year term and aims to help inform the debate over U.S. national security issues. “Their engagement on key topics will be invaluable to furthering […] More

Ray Duquette, president and general manager of CAE‘s U.S. arm, has said the company builds simulation technology to replicate what the company believes will happen to pilots during military or commercial aircraft flights, the Tampa Tribune reported Saturday. “We do both training and mission rehearsal with multiple simulators networked,” Duquette told Tribune reporter Yvette Hammett in an interview. “We […] More