The Navy will invest $17 MILLION toward the Knifefish Surface Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (SMCM UUV) program.
12 DEPARTMENTS within the DOD will receive funding assigned for unmanned systems.
$25 MILLION
of the Navy’s budget will go toward the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV). An additional $82.5 MILLION will be drawn from the Overseas Contingency Operations budget for modifications to the MQ-9 Reaper. The U.S. Air Force plans to procure 29 new MQ-9 Reapers for a total of
$821 MILLION.
$69 MILLION from the Overseas Contingency Operations budget will be used specifically for extending the range of the MQ-9 Reaper.
In 2016, the Pentagon plans to spend
$2.9 BILLION on a variety of unmanned systems.
The Army will invest
$40 MILLION on a
$34 MILLION
man-packable, miniature, highly mobile, unmanned robotic system with advanced sensors/mission modules.
will go toward researching a new Unmanned Surface Vehicle.
IN THE U.S. In 2016, DOD forecasts its UAS inventory to
REACH 9,282, up from 9,050 in 2015. By 2019 the DOD expects unmanned combat air patrols to INCREASE BY 50%, from about 60 a day to about 90 a day.