In a social media post Saturday, U.S. Central Command announced that underwater drones will join the mine clearance effort.

Earlier this week, Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said it had committed more than $600 million in unmanned aerial system defenses for Operation Epic Fury and stateside…

The EDU director will oversee the hub as the deputy secretary’s principal advisor for economic competition across the Defense Department.

The technologies and services would be intended to help with the surveillance, detection, classification and identification of maritime “targets of interest."

Marines with III Expeditionary Operations Training Group out of Okinawa, Japan, designed the unmanned surface vessel themselves, officials said, then blew it up with a drone.

More information will likely follow from Battle Damage Assessments and other evaluations conducted in the immediate wake of combat operations.

Billed as a “9-1-1” asset for how the service moves massive amounts of data, the Army Data Operations Center went live April 3.

Gen. Dan Caine said American search-and-rescue personnel in Iran were protected overhead by tactical drones, strike aircraft and other assets.

The funding proposal would boost spending on the initiative by more than an order of magnitude.

The announcement marked a notch in the Corps’ effort to replace the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) with a new platform.