SAN DIEGO, California. BlueHalo is pitching swarming drones that essentially act as a truck for any sensor that the operator wants to put on it, and the company showcased the technology at the XPONENTIAL 2024 exhibition.

SAN DIEGO, California. In the world of uncrewed systems, the U.S. military is more focused on finding commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions that can be fielded rapidly rather than expensive bespoke platforms that take years to develop, sources at the XPONENTIAL 2024 exhibition say.

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. Autonomous aerial platform provider Nearthlab is showcasing its latest counter-UAS [uncrewed aerial system] technology at  at this week's AUVSI XPONENTIAL trade show. 

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. Tekever, a UAS [uncrewed aerial system] company in Lisbon, Portugal, debuted its modular ARX platform at this week's AUVSI XPONENTIAL trade show. 

ALPHARETTA, Ga. Energy-storage provider Stryten Energy reports that it received a contract award from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Family of Advanced Standard Batteries (FAStBat) project to develop and evaluate a prototype 6T lithium-ion battery and potentially extend the technology to other cross-service platforms.

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) officials announced during a keynote address at XPONENTIAL 2024 that the entitiy has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) as a way to create a process for uncrewed systems manufacturers holding Green UAS [uncrewed aerial system] certification to share their data directly with DIU, with the aim of potentially including "Green-Certified" components on the DIU’s Blue UAS Framework list.

SAN DIEGO, California. The Department of Defense is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to speed up software improvements to uncrewed vehicles across the services from a matter of months to a few days, a DoD official said at the XPONENTIAL 2024 exhibition on Tuesday.

SAN DIEGO, California. The Department of Defense is working on a second tranche of systems for the Replicator initiative, an effort to field thousands of autonomous systems across multiple domains over an 18- to 24-month time frame, a DoD official said at the XPONENTIAL 2024 exhibition on Tuesday.

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. Military Embedded Systems is pleased to announce the winners of its Best In Show awards at this week's XPONENTIAL 2024 trade show. 

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. PABLO AIR, a maker of autonomous swarm control systems for uncrewed vehicles, unveiled its line of uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) at this week's AUVSI XPONENTIAL trade show. 

ARLINGTON, Va. AeroVironment (AV) engineers unveiled the company’s Autonomy Retrofit Kit (ARK) and AVACORE software to increase autonomous system effectiveness and reduce operator workload.

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is focusing on following MOSA [modular open systems approach] guidelines when designing uncrewed systems at its booth this week at the AUVSI XPONENTIAL trade show. 

LEUVEN, Belgium. Septentrio, a designer and provider of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technology, announced that it is collaborating with several uncrewed aerial system (UAS) solutions providers on new products that will enable easier prototyping or integration of the Septentrio "mosaic" GNSS receiver into UASs.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. The U.S. Marine Corps chose AeroVironment's Switchblade 300 Block 20 for the initial phase of the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program, the company announced in a statement.

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. Visitors to the Teledyne booth at this week's AUVSI XPONENTIAL trade show will be introduced to solutions for uncrewed systems from Teledyne DALSA, FLIR, and Geospatial used in defense, municipal infrastructure, precision agriculture, power line surveillance, mapping, surveying, and mining applications.