Advanced / Transformational Technology

In what the U.S. Air Force said was the first time artificial intelligence (AI) has commanded a military system, an AI algorithm helped to steer the radar of a Lockheed […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Tuesday said it will be investing in and collaborating with Deepwave Digital, which is developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies that improve communications processing. Terms of the […]

The Army on Monday released a new installations strategy that calls for bases of the future to serve as “smart” platforms that harness 5G and advanced communications capabilities needed to […]

Michael Brown, the director of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), on Dec. 11 proposed swarming drones as a candidate for a future AFWERX Prime program. Through Prime programs, AFWERX, […]

While the House recommended cutting $50 million from the DoD’s Project Maven in fiscal 2021, House and Senate conferees on the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 6395, agreed […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the coming weeks plans to expand field testing of facial matching technology it trialed this fall at an airport to allow a touchless experience […]

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, suggested on Dec. 8 that the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC) needs to beef up […]

The U.S. Air Force on Dec. 7 awarded more than $76 million to Kratos [KTOS], Boeing [BA], and General Atomics to build Skyborg prototypes and fly them in teaming with […]

Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said on Dec. 7 that a crisis will likely force the Pentagon to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and ways to involve commercial start-up innovators […]

The draft conference report on the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 6395, requires the Pentagon director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) to submit a report on […]