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SAN DIEGO— The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) this week expressed confidence that the Navy will start reaching an integrating manned-unmanned fleet within about a decade. “The promise of unmanned […]

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, […]

Small kamikaze drones have been a worry for U.S. commanders–most recently in a deadly attack on the U.S. Tower 22 base in northeast Jordan near Syria on Jan. 28. While […]

The U.S. Space Force wants the upcoming VICTUS HAZE demonstration to point toward future satellite launches within hours, not days, of order receipt. As part of a Space Force effort […]

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall on Feb. 12 urged companies to help the Department of the Air Force solve its operational problems, in part through boosting industry internal […]

Leidos [LDOS] on Tuesday reported strong fourth quarter earnings and sales as the bottom-line benefitted from gains across its operating segments. Net income increased 28 percent to $230 million, $1.66 […]

The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is to create an Integrated Capabilities Office and focus on large scale, multi-weapon exercises as part of a “reoptimization” of the department for […]

BAE Systems said Monday it won a Boeing [BA] contract to upgrade and modernize the vehicle management system computer (VMSC) for the carrier-based MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aircraft refueler. The upgraded […]

Maxar Intelligence has named former Google [GOOG] and Apple [AAPL] executive Arvind Srinivasan as the company’s new chief technology officer. At Google, Srinivasan oversaw the commercialization of the Google Maps Engine cloud platform, […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Navy completed “one of the most complicated” missile defense discrimination and intercept missions so far against a ballistic missile target with countermeasures, the Defense […]