Advanced / Transformational Technology

The Pentagon is readying to release proposal requests for the department’s first 5G telecommunications pilot programs, with officials soliciting industry feedback on projects to test smart warehouses for the Marine […]

Raytheon [RTN] has unveiled a new virtual reality trainer the company has designed to meet the Army’s requirement to simulate operational scenarios with real and virtual weapons as part of […]

Dozens of defense companies are developing lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), as humanitarian groups seek to build international support for a treaty to ban them, according to a recent report. LAWS, […]

A recent test by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA) demonstrated the ability of radars supplied by Echodyne to detect and track small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in […]

The Air Force has selected three programs relating to artificial intelligence, autonomous technologies and precision, navigation and timing (PNT) development for its first “vanguard” programs, meant to quickly demonstrate the […]

Boeing Australia [BA] announced the first flight of subscale test aircraft for its Airpower Teaming System (ATS) this week. “We successfully achieved our first autonomous teamed flights using high-performance jets […]

Army soldiers are currently working through the second hands-on evaluation of the service’s future augmented reality headset, being developed by Microsoft [MSFT], with the latest event focused on putting the […]

Elbit Systems plans to showcase its new MAGNI intelligence drone at this week’s Milipol Paris 2019 safety and homeland security conference, which hosts some 30,000 visitors biennially. The drone is […]

A top NATO military official on Tuesday said the alliance’s new operational-level command in Norfolk, Va., is working on several artificial intelligence initiatives, with a goal to begin projects around […]

The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin [LMT] expect to field a modernized, upgraded version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) by next fall, service and […]