Advanced / Transformational Technology

The Army this week awarded a $46.1 million contract to Elroy Air to test and experiment with the company’s Chaparral autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for heavy […]

Startup Smack Technologies on Tuesday said it has raised $61 million in a new funding round that will allow it to expand the extent of its autonomy software models to […]

Anduril Industries on Monday detailed the next iteration of its Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) hardware for the Army, which increases the horizontal field of view by almost 70 percent, […]

The absence of air superiority by Russian or Ukrainian forces since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the lack of U.S. air superiority over Iran point to a future in […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Space Development Agency (SDA) last Thursday said they have made initial awards to three companies for preliminary designs and risk reduction efforts for commercial […]

AEVEX Corp. [AVEX] on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire BlackSea Technologies in a deal worth up to $650 million that would add a robust portfolio of unmanned surface […]

Heaviside Industries, a startup developing precision munitions, on Wednesday said it has raised $60 million in a Series B round, three months after the company emerged from stealth. The Los […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and commercial partners recently demonstrated a commercially-developed system for detecting and tracking drones in local areas using existing wireless infrastructure and plans to offer the solution on […]

Boeing [BA] said this week it’s developing a new Ultra Low-Cost Seeker (ULCS) built with commercial off-the-shelf components modified for potential use on both offensive and defensive weapons. The company […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week announced the results of a recent challenge designed to push the boundaries of payload weights a drone can carry based on […]