Advanced / Transformational Technology

House defense authorizers are recommending a new pilot effort for the Defense Department’s innovation arm to enable faster testing and evaluation of commercial technologies that could meet warfighters’ needs. Currently, […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) version of the fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill calls on U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) to demonstrate a hybrid, military-commercial space architecture […]

House defense authorizers encourage the U.S. Air Force to use existing military engines for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). “CCA operational concepts call for extended unrefueled range greater than 3,000 […]

Airbus‘ buy of Bingen, Wash.-based Aerovel will add the Aerovel Flexrotor drone to the European defense giant’s U.S. product line in what Rob Geckle, the chairman and CEO of Airbus […]

KISSIMMEE, Fla.—Continuously improving artificial intelligence around computer vision, analytic workflows, data collection, and enterprise infrastructure, all wrapped into responsible uses of the technology, make up the high-level goals for the […]

KISSIMMEE, Fla.—Contracting shops at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are shorthanded, just as they are across the federal government, but artificial intelligence technologies exist that can make the agency’s acquisition […]

The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has added Emerging Technology as a new portfolio as part of an acquisition effort that quickly acquires commercial technologies for prototyping. The first […]

GE Aerospace [GE] has finished a fourth round of testing on the XA100 adaptive cycle engine “to gather additional data and advance this next-generation technology for future combat aircraft.”  the […]

KISSIMMEE, Fla.—Artificial intelligence technologies are key to leveraging the large amount of imagery being collected by NATO allies and companies based in NATO countries to speed results, an alliance official […]

The U.S. Air Force plans flight tests of the RTX [RTX] air-breathing Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) in fiscal 2025, as the service mulls a legacy for the development of […]