Advanced / Transformational Technology

Northrop Grumman [NOC] last week unveiled Beacon, what it calls a “testbed ecosystem” that brings together its flight hardware with autonomy software solutions from other vendors to evaluate and quickly […]

Building each U.S. Space Force Counter Communications System (CCS) 10.3 Meadowlands takes a year or two for L3Harris Technologies [LHX] at its Palm Bay, Fla., plant, and several such systems […]

An MQ-20 Avenger unmanned combat aerial vehicle equipped with artificial intelligence-based flight software successfully simulated an autonomous shootdown of live aircraft earlier this month, General Atomics (GA) and Shield AI […]

Data engineering and software development company Raft on Tuesday said it has acquired N3bula Systems, adding expertise in systems architecture, infrastructure management, and cloud solutions to provide the Defense Department […]

Mach Industries on Tuesday said it has closed a $100 million Series B round that will be used to scale production of its strike and other platforms, and small turbine […]

Propulsion developer and manufacturer Ursa Major on Monday said it has received a $32.9 million contact from Stratolaunch to provide 16 upgraded Hadley engines that the aerospace vehicle testing company […]

For the second time in less than a year, General Dynamics’ [GD] Information Technologies division and Amazon Web Services [AMZN] demonstrated an integrated artificial intelligence and cloud computing solution to […]

House defense appropriators propose $500 million in fiscal 2026 for the U.S. Air Force E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft by Boeing [BA] and turn back the Trump administration’s bid […]

The Pentagon is looking to end the U.S. Air Force (USAF) E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft by Boeing [BA] in the Trump administration’s upcoming full fiscal 2026 budget request. […]

Several new venture funding raised were announced on Tuesday, including an $8.4 million seed round by space computer and autonomous spacecraft startup Aethero for further technology development. Aethero, based in […]