Advanced / Transformational Technology
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Business/FinancialRaytheon’s Venture Arm Invests In Autonomy Solutions Company EpiSci
Raytheon Technologies [RTX] on Thursday said its venture capital arm has made a minority investment in EpiSys Science (EpiSci), a small California-based company developing autonomous solutions for defense and security […]
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InternationalLockheed Martin, Israel’s Rafael Team To Work On Laser Weapons Based On 100KW Iron Beam
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Monday it has teamed with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to work on “jointly developing, testing and manufacturing High Energy Laser Weapon Systems,” to include building on […]
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Air ForcePratt & Whitney Receives $115 Million for F135 Engine Core Upgrade
Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] Pratt & Whitney snared a more than $115 million contract last week for the F135 engine core upgrade for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter. Pratt & […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Unveils B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber
Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Friday publicly unveiled the new B-21 Raider, the Air Force’s new stealth bomber and the first sixth-generation aircraft. The ceremony in Palmdale, California at the Air […]
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Business/FinancialAnduril Gets $1.5 Billion Shot In The Arm To Accelerate R&D
Anduril Industries last Friday said it raised $1.5 billion in a new funding round that will be used to accelerate its research and development into new defense and security technologies […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDARPA Soliciting For Long Endurance VTOL UAS For Navy And Marine Corps
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last week issued a solicitation for proposals for long endurance, vertical takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned air systems deployed from Navy surface combatants and forward deployed […]
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Business/FinancialDoD Establishes New Office To Help Tech Companies Access Private Capital
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday established a new DoD office charged with helping companies that are developing technologies critical to national security partner with private capital to help them […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Gives Go Ahead to Raytheon and Boeing Payload Designs for MEO Missile Tracking Competition
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has conducted two critical design reviews for Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Overhead Persistent Infrared Sensor (OPIR) payloads by […]
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SpaceCommercial Space Key for Domain Awareness, SPACECOM Commander Says
Commercial space is becoming key for DoD to detect, analyze and respond to threats, a top official said on Nov. 29. “As of today, we’ve got about 120 commercial mission […]
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Nuclear ModernizationGecko Robotics Announces Air Force Contract to Aid in Conversion to Sentinel
Pittsburgh’s Gecko Robotics said on Nov. 29 that the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center has awarded the company an 18-month, $1.5 million Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) […]
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