The US Air Force recently completed another test of its Rapid Dragon palletized munition system concept. Rapid Dragon – sometimes referred to as a “bomb bay in a box” seeks to create a deployment system Read More
For the first time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) succesfully recovered an unmanned X-61 Gremlin air vehicle to a C-130 in flight. The Gremlin drones are made by Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos. Read More
One of the five winners of the most recent Dragon’s Lair competition – a search for innovative ideas held quarterly at the US Army’s Fort Bragg in North Carolina – was a formula that can Read More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched its Forecasting Floats in Turbulence (FTT) challenge in search of technology that can predict the location of sea drifters or floats in a prospect of 10 Read More
The Air Force has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and General Atomics matching $17.7M contracts to develop drones that act as sensor extensions as well as secondary weapons bays for manned fighter jets – Read More
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Boeing have recently been awarded a U.S. Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) contract to develop a 300kW-class solid-state Distributed Gain High Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS). Read More
Fort Sill, OK recently held an opening ceremony for its new Integrated Moving Target Simulator – called the Stinger Training Dome. The Stinger Training Dome provides a projected terrain and aircraft images within a “360-degree Read More
DARPA recently announced its Coded Visibility program, which aims to develop obscurants that will be used to provide warfighters with an asymmetric advantage – where their visibility is enhanced and that of their adversary is Read More
Exosonic has been awarded a Direct to Phase II SBIR contract from the US Air Force for the development of a low boom supersonic uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) demonstrator. The contract was awarded by the Read More
Bell has successfully demonstrated the aerial resupply capability of its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) – an autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) quadcopter cargo drone. This capability is expected to enable quicker resupply missions Read More
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