Advanced / Transformational Technology

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Wednesday the Pentagon still has to work on industrial base concerns related to manufacturing capacity for aggressive advancement of hypersonic weapon capabilities and supply […]

U.S. AIR FORCE PLANT 42 PALMDALE, Calif.—Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Sept. 8 unveiled the Model 401 aircraft, built by the Burt Rutan-founded, Northrop Grumman-owned Scaled Composites for an unnamed “very […]

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), a critic of the F-35 program, has suggested that an acceleration of the U.S. Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) […]

As the Space Development Agency (SDA) prepares to release a solicitation for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) on Aug. 30, the agency is also working to […]

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall suggested on Aug. 24 that he is on board with the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) development of offensive counterspace capabilities to include kinetic means. “As […]

The Defense Department in September expects to begin soliciting for the next increment of its authoritative biometric database, which will transition to the cloud and add new capabilities, a department […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] is targeting next March to select a payload provider for the company’s effort to build two satellites for missile warning under Block O of the Next-Generation Overhead […]

Last month, the U.S. Air Force conducted its first system-level flight tests to demonstrate the ability of Lockheed Martin [LMT] Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) to drop […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is to highlight the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) and Rocket Cargo Vanguard programs at the 36th Space Symposium next week in Colorado Springs–a forum […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] announced Tuesday the company has successfully validated the open architecture design of its advanced gateway system offering with the integration of a new L3Harris Technologies [LHX]-developed High […]