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The first Boeing [BA] KC-46A tanker built for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) refueled another KC-46A Pegasus in a test over Washington State on Aug. 9 and received fuel […]

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is starting a new research project to develop a system to detect magnetic influence mines from unmanned vessels. On Aug. 10, ONR issued a […]

Responding to a July letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that large defense contractors acquiring their key suppliers is eliminating competition, a top U.S. regulator replied this month that putting […]

While the U.S. Air Force fiscal 2022 budget request proposes reducing the A-10 “Warthog” close air support (CAS) fleet from 281 to 239 as part of a retirement of 201 […]

More than a year after a seminal cybersecurity commission presented numerous recommendations for the U.S. to up its cyber game across a range of areas, most of the action items […]

The Department of Defense awarded Citadel Defense a $6 million contract to build and supply a new AI-powered counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) system that will be developed using feedback […]

The U.S. Air Force is not looking to replace the Lockheed Martin [LMT] 187 F-22s one-for-one with the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems, but rather will determine […]

The Department of Homeland Security has incorporated cyber hygiene standards into its contracts since 2015 but given the evolution and expansion of cybersecurity threats it wants to improve its oversight […]

The electric air taxi company Joby Aviation completed a merger with Reinvent Technology Partners (RTP) on Aug. 10 making it the first publicly traded electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) […]

The Air Force on Wednesday morning launched a non-nuclear Minuteman III missile, carrying what the service called a “high-fidelity joint test assembly,” from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The […]