Advanced / Transformational Technology

Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is planning to double its investment in next-generation effects research, with a lead official signaling the focus of future projects will shift from precision strike to […]

California-based ABL Space Systems said on May 17 that it has received a contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), geared to speeding the delivery of innovative commercial technology, […]

U.S. Air Forces Central’s (AFCENT) 609th Air Operations Center (AOC) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar has begun the transition to a cloud-based system to plan and execute air tasking […]

DUGWAY, Utah — Future Vertical Lift surrogates, new Air Launched Effects and augmented reality headsets. Over the last two weeks, the Army brought emerging technologies “into the dirt” at Dugway […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]