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🚗 Army and Clemson Unveil Upgraded Deep Orange Semi-Autonomous Vehicle
Upgraded Deep Orange demonstrator adds autonomy and safety features for convoy ops, EOD support, and logistics in complex terrain at scale.
Dallas Hartley
August 14, 2025
📬 In Today’s Defense Brief
🤖 New Autonomous Aircraft in Development for Marines Read More
🛡️ REAPR Unmanned Ground Vehicle Designed for U.S. Marines Read More
🎯 Ursa Major Develops Extended-Range Rocket Motor for APKWS-R Read More
🚗 Army and Clemson Unveil Upgraded Deep Orange Semi-Autonomous Vehicle Read More
⚓ DoD/Navy Award $259M Contract for Standard Missile-2 Development Read More
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📰 Full Breakdown
🤖 New Autonomous Aircraft in Development for Marines Read More
Autonomous VTOL aims to push agile resupply, ISR, and EW payloads to contested littorals, extending reach for forward Marine units globally.
Design pursues modular airframes, open mission systems, and autonomy stacks tailored for expeditionary logistics, sensing, and kill webs.
Trials will vet deck handling, ship-to-shore routings, and swarming control under GPS-degraded, RF-dense Pacific operating conditions.
🛡️ REAPR Unmanned Ground Vehicle Designed for U.S. Marines Read More
Tracked REAPR UGV promises heavy payload carriage, remote weapons, and EOD kits, supporting Marines in dense urban, subterranean combat.
Design emphasizes swappable mission modules, low thermal signature, and quiet mobility to scout, breach, and resupply under fire at night.
Testing will stress autonomy in GPS-denied areas, hardened teleops through multipath, and teaming with dismount squads and small UAS.
🎯 Ursa Major Develops Extended-Range Rocket Motor for APKWS-R Read More
New motor for APKWS-R aims to extend standoff range while preserving laser-guided precision, boosting survivability against SHORAD threats.
Engineering focuses on thrust profile shaping, propellant chemistry, and thermal margins, compatible with existing launcher form factors.
Longer reach supports rotary and fixed-wing platforms, enabling safer rocket artillery, close support, and rapid follow-on engagement cycles.
🚗 Army and Clemson Unveil Upgraded Deep Orange Semi-Autonomous Vehicle Read More
Upgraded Deep Orange demonstrator adds autonomy and safety features for convoy ops, EOD support, and logistics in complex terrain at scale.
Vehicle integrates drive-by-wire, sensor fusion, and V2X, enabling teleoperation fallback and modular mission payloads for rapid trials.
Army–Clemson partnership fast-tracks prototyping and field experimentation, closing gaps between campus labs and operational formations.
Navy awards Raytheon $259M to advance Standard Missile-2 development, sustaining fleet area-air defense and allied interoperability.
Work covers engineering, testing, and obsolescence mitigation to extend SM-2 relevance amid evolving threats and electromagnetic congestion.
Contract supports FMS partners reliant on SM-2 inventories, ensuring common upgrades, logistics alignment, and steady production cadence.
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