Mabus: UCLASS Likely A Bridge to Autonomous Strike Aircraft, F/A-XX ‘Should be Unmanned’
The Navy’s planned carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will help the service in a transition from manned strike aircraft to…
Document: GAO Report on Navy UCLASS Requirements
The following is Government Accountability Office report, Unmanned Carrier-Based Aircraft System: Navy Needs to Demonstrate Match between Its Requirements and…
Forbes Calls on SECNAV Mabus to Extend X-47B Testing
Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) wants to keep the Navy’s two X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrators (UCAS-D) flying instead of…
Navy Conducts Successful Test of Aerial Refueling with X-47B, UCAS-D Program Ending
The Navy successfully tested autonomous aerial refueling for the first time with its Northrop Grumman X-47B test unmanned aerial vehicle…
NAVAIR: Aerial Refueling Will End X-47B Test Program, Salty Dogs Bound for Museums or Boneyard
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — There are no plans to extend the testing for its Unmanned Carrier Air Vehicle demonstrator (UCAS-D)…
NAVAIR: Aerial Refueling Test of X-47B Could Occur By End of the Month
A test to prove an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be refueled in flight could happen by the end…
McCain Weighs in on UCLASS Debate, Current Navy Requirements ‘Strategically Misguided’
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is calling on the Department of Defense and the Navy to…
Document: McCain Letter to SECDEF Carter on UCLASS
The following is a March 24, 2015 letter from Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) chair Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to…
WEST: Bob Work Says UCLASS Development Needs a ‘Joint Perspective’
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. – The first operational unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be used on the Navy’s aircraft carriers needs…
Navy Pushes UCLASS Fielding Date, Air Segment Request for Proposal
PENTAGON – The Navy has pushed its planned fielding date for its carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from 2020 to…