Advanced / Transformational Technology

Marking a major expansion in the Defense Department’s premier effort to create greater battlespace awareness in near-real-time for its theater commands and key staff, the Chief Digital and Artificial Office […]

Boston-based Merlin Labs, Inc. said on May 30 that it is using data from flights of a KC-135 at MacDill AFB, Fla., “to better understand crew workload drivers and gather […]

Engine developer and manufacturer Ursa Major has hot-fired its new Draper liquid engine dozens of times since the first test in early March, a strong early endorsement of the performance […]

The Department of Homeland Security this week released its first ever strategy that lays out eight priority research areas through 2030 to guide coordination of research and development efforts across […]

DARPA has selected Bell and Boeing’s [BA] Aurora Flight Sciences to move forward in its program to develop vertical takeoff and landing prototypes capable of flying at speeds of up […]

Boeing [BA] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] are in the running for a U.S. Space Force cost reimbursement contract this December to develop and build two Protected Tactical Satellite Communications-Resilient (PTS-R) […]

The Pentagon “earlier this month” began delivering the first unmanned systems for its Replicator initiative to field thousands of attritable autonomous capabilities by August 2025, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week said it selected six companies to continue in the risk reduction and component testing phase of its program to develop vertical […]

California-based EpiSys Science, Inc.‘s (EpiSci) collaborative autonomy linking networked weapons was the “best in class” during the Golden Horde Colosseum demonstration, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) said in its fiscal […]

Colorado-based Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) said that its win last month for the U.S. Air Force’s Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) will help “expand” the defense industrial base beyond top-tier […]