Advanced / Transformational Technology

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Merlin, a small company developing autonomous capabilities for military aviation, this week said it has launched a new business unit that expands its focus beyond the routine functions […]

The Pentagon’s supply of small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), strike, and other missions is far short of the need, an executive at Skydio, told a House Armed […]

Anduril Industries is working with prime contractor Microsoft [MSFT] to integrate the startup’s Lattice software into Microsoft’s augmented reality headset being developed for the Army to warn soldiers of autonomously-detected […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force is flying two sorties per week of the “production representative” test Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider stealth bomber as the service aims to move […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—A network of low-cost acoustic sensors developed and in use by Ukrainian forces to detect and counter low flying one-way drones launched by Russian forces is so effective […]

Anduril Industries and General Atomics may conduct first flights in the next year of their Fury and Gambit offerings for the first increment of the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat […]

Rocket engine and motor developer Ursa Major and the Navy are jointly investing $25 million in the startup’s advanced manufacturing approach to solid rocket motors with the funding targeted at […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force has projected that it will finish an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) this fall on the Next Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) to succeed the […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–In the past, the U.S. Air Force has estimated a unit cost of several hundred million dollars for the manned Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter (NGAD), but Air […]

Anduril Industries on Thursday unveiled a new family of low-cost, expendable, multi-mission autonomous air vehicles (AAVs) that also come with cruise missile variants, all at what it says will be […]