Advanced / Transformational Technology

The Senate on Tuesday evening passed a bipartisan bill to invest $250 billion toward technology research and development efforts to better compete with China, to include more than $50 billion […]

The U.S. Air Force plans to field its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) on the first Boeing [BA] KC-46 Pegasus tankers by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 and would […]

More than half of the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) $832 million unfunded priorities list (UPL)–$431.1 million–is devoted to programs “to develop a warfighting punch.” Included in the $431.1 million are […]

BigBear.ai, a cyber and data analytics company cobbled together through several acquisitions last year by a private equity firm, is going public this year and is valued at nearly $1.6 […]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed off on the Pentagon’s Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy, which aims to bring in technologies such as artificial intelligence and advanced […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) plans to issue a solicitation soon on a new Department of the Air Force Vanguard program–Rocket Cargo, a science and technology (S&T) effort to […]

The U.S. Space Force (USSF), which became an independent military service in December, 2019, is requesting $11.3 billion for research and development (R&D) in the service’s fiscal 2022 budget–an $800 […]

The U.S. Air Force fiscal 2022 budget request proposes the retirement of 201 aircraft to help pay for $28.8 billion in requested research and development (R&D) funding–a $2.2 billion increase […]

The Navy’s Strategic Systems Program successfully conducted a test of the first stage Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) on May 27 for the Defense Department’s hypersonic weapon effort. The test occurred […]

Airmen tested the performance of the Boeing [BA] Tactical Data Link (TDL) for the company’s KC-46A Pegasus tanker during Mobility Guardian 2021 (MG21) on May 15-27. Air Mobility Command (AMC) […]