Advanced / Transformational Technology

Kratos [KTOS] is folding in the work that the company has done on the XQ-58A Valkyrie for the U.S. Air Force Skyborg program into offerings for the service’s Collaborative Combat […]

The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit has selected Thales’ U.S.-based Defense & Security, Inc. (TDSI) business to develop and prototype new Small Tactical Universal Batteries (STUB), intended to reduce troops’ logistical […]

Amid larger and increasingly more sophisticated Chinese military exercises in the Western Pacific and especially near Taiwan, the U.S. needs better data analytic capabilities to discern intent and provide warnings, […]

The U.S. Air Force may narrow the field of five contractor teams for the first Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) technology effort to two to three in the next several months. […]

As the Air Force Association’s annual warfare symposium gets underway Feb. 12 in Denver, RTX‘s [RTX] Pratt & Whitney is reporting progress on a prototype XA103 engine for U.S. Air […]

A new plan to advance the mission of the lead Defense Department unit charged with accelerating the adoption of commercial technologies is being well received by outside experts who like […]

Xwing, a company developing technology for autonomous flight operations, last Friday said it recently flew unmanned dispersed cargo missions in unrestricted airspace for the Air Force as part of the […]

Anduril Industries on Thursday said it has launched a new family of passive airborne imaging and targeting sensors it calls Iris that can detect, track, and discriminate targets in all […]

An orbital debris removal research project by Astroscale Japan Inc. is to launch later this month or in early March aboard an Electron rocket by Rocket Lab USA, Inc. [RKLB]. […]

Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Director Doug Beck on Wednesday released his plans for the next stage of his agency, much of it focused on enhancing and strengthening existing partnerships between […]