05 May 2022 NAVFAC Southeast CERT joins forces with USACE ERDC JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Two teams from different branches perform a joint exercise using a UAS to survey simulated storm damage to facilities at Naval Air Station Jacksonville to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season...
13 January 2022 Navy Trains to Counter Drone Threats at Point Mugu VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - The Pacific Target Marine Operations (PTMO), a division Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s Threat/Target Systems Department, recently deployed small-drones over Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC), Point Mugu to provide cost-effective unmanned aerial system (UAS)...
29 July 2021 Navy Conducts First MQ-4C Triton Test Flight with Multi-Intelligence Upgrade NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Navy conducted its first test flight of the MQ-4C Triton in its upgraded hardware and software configuration July 29 at NAS Patuxent River, beginning the next phase of the unmanned aircraft’s development...
07 June 2021 Fueling the Future: MQ-25 First to Conduct Unmanned Aerial Tanking NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The MQ-25™ program successfully conducted the first ever aerial refueling operations between a manned receiver aircraft and unmanned tanker June 4 from MidAmerica Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois...
26 April 2021 Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures Company Uses UUVs to Complete Certification Exercise PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 2, completed their pre-deployment Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures (ExMCM) Advanced Certification Exercise (CERTEX) at Naval Support Activity Panama City, April 16...
02 March 2021 MARMC, Blue Water, USS Gerald R. Ford Partner for UAS Exercise NORFOLK, Va. - Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) hosted the Blue Water Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Skyways team for an exercise that could impact the way the Navy handles transporting parts for repairs needed aboard forward-deployed ships...
22 February 2021 Naval Air Force Atlantic demonstrates UAS prototype Naval Air Force Atlantic conducted a test of a logistics Unmanned Air System prototype over Naval Station Norfolk on Feb. 21, 2021. The long-range cargo transport, dubbed Blue Water UAS, is designed to operate with Naval Forces that typically operate in heavy winds over open water and require...
25 November 2020 Aerial Building Surveys Take Flight With New UAV Pilot Program A Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic pilot program has, for the first time, used Unmanned Aerial Surveying to assess structures at two Virginia locations...
09 November 2020 Navy Develops Unmanned Air System for Ship Cargo Resupply NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION – The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) recently acquired a logistics Unmanned Air System (UAS) prototype to demonstrate long-range naval ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore cargo transport at Naval Air Station Patuxent River.Delivered in late...