The U.S. Air Force is using digital engineering to field advanced systems rapidly and reduce sustainment costs in a variety of programs, including the Boeing [BA] T-7A trainer and the Northrop Grumman [NOC] Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) to replace the Boeing Minuteman III intercontinental ...

Digital engineering of the Boeing [BA] and Saab T-7A Red Hawk led to the joining of the training aircraft’s front and aft fuselages in less than half an hour this week at Boeing’s St. Louis plant, Boeing said on May 13. Saab builds the aft fuselage at its plant in Linköping, Sweden, ...

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is undertaking a space-based ground moving target indicator (GMTI) program and looking to move into tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions that complement intelligence community efforts, but the new USSF focus areas are not to conflict ...

The Pentagon’s Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy is likely to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin within a few weeks and has already been signed off by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a lead official said Tuesday. Army Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, the J-6 deputy ...

FLIR Systems [FLIR] has received more than $70 million in new orders to deliver nearly 600 additional Centaur unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) to the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the company announced Monday. Orders for the Centaur medium-sized ground robots were placed under the Army’s ...

After a year of testing, BETA Technologies‘ electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, ALIA, has received the first airworthiness approval for manned flight in an electric aircraft from the Air Force, the Air Force announced on May 5. BETA and the Air Force will sign a contract ...