The concept designs of three companies that have acknowledged their interest in the U.S. Air Force vision for MQ-Next all feature flying wings–a nearly 550 year-old concept, first pondered by Leonardo da Vinci around 1485 and most notably realized in the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-2 stealth ...

The California-based Rocket Lab is set to launch its Electron rocket for the company’s first mission for the U.S. Space Force in partnership with DoD’s Space Test Program and the Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) Small Launch and Targets Division.  The launch of the Space ...

The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) held a virtual discussion on Sept. 15-16 with allied nations on ethical principles for the use of AI. The debut Partnership for Defense (PfD) meeting defense included representatives from the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, ...

The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] are expected to finish negotiations on a consideration package that may reduce future contract payments to the company for sustainment of the F-35 Lighting II fighter by $183 million to $303 million. “DCMA and Lockheed ...

The F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin [LMT] have begun a transition to the the Operational Data Integrated Network (ODIN) cloud-based logistics program from the nearly 20 year-old Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS). “We’ve been able to port the existing ALIS ...

The U.S. Air Force and Boeing [BA] are negotiating the terms of a contract for Pegasus Combat Capability (PC2) Block I for the company’s KC-46 Pegasus air refueler–a contract which could come in the first quarter of next year and which would provide the tanker with communications ...