Advanced / Transformational Technology

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Army has approved its prototype requirement for the Electric Light Reconnaissance Vehicle (eLRV) effort, with an official confirming the fiscal year 2024 budget request includes funds for […]

The Commerce Department on Tuesday opened an expected funding opportunity aimed at rebuilding the domestic semiconductor industry, which has increasingly moved offshore, a weakness in U.S. supply chains that became […]

The U.S. Air Force is awarding about $54 million to Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and L3Harris Technologies [LHX] under six-month contracts for the next step in the service’s Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) […]

Maxar Technologies [MAXR] on Monday said it has been awarded a new contract under the Army’s One World Terrain (OWT) effort to continue to evolve and add geospatial data for […]

The U.S. Army plans to field its first Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) battery this fall, as LRHW training continues at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Wash., Army Secretary Christine Wormuth […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Feb. 23 that it has begun integration and test of the new ultra-wideband Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor (EMRIS) to enable military forces “to accelerate […]

U.S. Air Forces Central’s (AFCENT) Task Force 99 (TF 99) unit at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar began short-range drone intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance flight tests this month, and Air […]

Camera systems and facial matching software used to capture and verify identities of individuals in small groups traveling in small groups in a checkpoint-type setting demonstrated their effectiveness in testing […]

U.S. Space Force needs to ramp up its use of high-fidelity simulators to train personnel how to deter potential adversaries, and, if necessary, defeat them, Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, the […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) said on Feb. 22 that it has finished flight testing of an F-16 autonomous gun system–the Digitally Enhanced Aiming Through Control Law, known […]