The use of unmanned systems, both ground and air platforms, has proliferated vastly during the last decade. However, in preparation for future conflict against peer adversaries with massive electronic warfare capabilities, there is a critical need to improve critical technologies for unmanned systems in order for them to continue fulfilling the highly appreciated capabilities that they possess in today's operations. These technologies include the communication and navigation systems, highly automatic driving in terrain (off-road) and automatic surveillance and targeting approaches. Descriptions of selected representative existing unmanned systems are provided in the report. The status of research and development (R&D) efforts in the US, Great Britain and Russia is provided. These nations allocate significant resources into R&D on unmanned system technologies, resulting in a rapid pace of development. This analysis is used as a basis for estimates of the level of maturity of unmanned systems and as a means to estimate a timeline for when different desired capabilities can be expected to be fulfilled. Furthermore, seven preliminary concepts are outlined, which describes how unmanned systems under development could fulfil select capabilities in the near future.