Media Centre | Uncrewed Systems

To give you a sense of who you could potentially hear from and network with at the Uncrewed Systems Conference, download the attendee snapshot from the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Day, which attracted over 400 registrants and took place during the flagship International Armoured Vehicles Conference in January.

Join us at Uncrewed Systems to connect with top-tier military leaders, S&T specialists, and industry experts as we address urgent defence demands and future investments and capabilities in UGVs and UAS.

The ground and air uncrewed systems market in our targeted regions is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.1% until 2029. The reasons for this growth are driven by a range of factors that vary across nations. However, the maturation of certain technologies combined with the demands demonstrated by recent, ongoing, and anticipated conflicts strongly indicates the inevitable "robotisation" of the battlefield.

This report highlights some of the most significant programmes relating to uncrewed systems in Australia, India, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the U.S. It serves as an essential resource for understanding the current landscape of these critical technologies.

Following our Market Report, we are also releasing our Unmanned Systems International Programme and Budget Snapshot 2024-2029. This short document highlights the spending forecast per programme up to FY 2029 while also highlighting speakers and documents that may help the reader better understand future trends to be better prepared for the robotisation of the battlefield.

Uncrewed systems and the technology around them continue to evolve rapidly, calling for greater speed and agility in procurement. We were privileged to interview Captain Dennis Monagle, who faced these challenges head-on.

Here, we explored how the captain was able to speed up procurement while still fulfilling his obligations to his stakeholders of delivering ISR-capable Unmanned Aerial Systems to the Fleet. Through effective partnerships and strong knowledge of the procurement vehicles, MQ-9 Reapers were readied in record time.

At Defence iQ's International Armoured Vehicle Conference in 2024, we had the privilege of hearing from Mr Markus Otsus, Department of Applied Research, Estonian Military Academy on 'Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) Autonomy Trials In Estonia - The Approach, Realisation and Results'.

At Defence iQ's International Armoured Vehicle Conference in 2024, we had the privilege of hearing from Nicholas Valentine, Lead Engineer – Human Machine Teaming Future Capabilities Group, DE&S – UK MOD on 'Human Machine Teams: Remote Autonomous Systems (RAS) In The Land System Environment'. 

This insightful presentation covers; 5 challenges and 5 opportunities of Human Machine Teaming. 

At Defence iQ's International Armoured Vehicle Conference in 2024, we had the privilege of hearing from Lieutenant Colonel Martijn Hadicke, Head of Development and Innovation RAS-Program, Royal Netherlands Army on 'Operationalising Combat Unmanned Ground Vehicles'.

This insightful presentation details programs, projects and activities.