Advanced / Transformational Technology

The Air Force’s next Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) technology demo may have been pushed back two months due to COVID-19-related precautions, but the service may use some of the […]

Defense acquisition is in “uncharted territory” as the world reacts to the COVID-19 coronavirus, and yet little disruption entered Air Force acquisition programs due to innovative efforts to work around […]

The Pentagon has completed a successful flight test of its hypersonic weapon glide body, a key milestone as the department looks to field a hypersonic weapon in the early-to-mid 2020s. […]

Lawmakers want the Pentagon to procure 98 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in fiscal year 2021, 19 more than were included in the department’s budget request, according to a letter sent […]

Hughes Network Systems was recently awarded a contract to provide new advanced satellite communications systems for the Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial systems. The contract, awarded by MQ-1C prime […]

The Air Force’s second Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) demonstration has been postponed from April until June as part of the Defense Department’s response to the novel coronavirus, Chief of […]

The Pentagon on Tuesday released its latest proposal request for 5G pilot programs, seeking prototypes for augmented and virtual reality projects at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. This is the […]

The Navy has awarded Pratt & Whitney [UTX] a $319.8 million contract modification for 32 new engines for the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The modification exercises an option for […]

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program suffers from a lack of performance measurement process for its main logistics system, and lawmakers should require the Pentagon to develop a strategy to […]

The Air Force is conducting a study that will inform how the service will continue its critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions as it begins to phase out production […]