AI & AutonomyArmy To Test And Evaluate Elroy Air’s Hybrid-Electric VTOL Under New Contract The Army in August awarded a $46.1 million contract to Elroy Air to test and experiment with the company’s Chaparral autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for heavy cargo operations…
MilitaryPDW Eyes Supplying Parts To Support U.S. Production Of One Million Drones Annually Performance Drone Works (PDW), which last week received a conditional loan commitment from the Defense Department to supercharge its capacity and capabilities for making key drone components, expects to support domestic production of…
MilitaryDoD Makes Potential $820 Million Loan Commitment To Drone Company To Mass Produce Components Flexing new authorities to dramatically increase its loan commitments, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) has made a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million to Performance Drone Works (PDW) to expand…
MilitaryShield AI, GE Integrate Advanced Vectoring Nozzle For X-BAT Engine Shield AI and GE Aerospace on Monday said they have completed integration of an advanced vectoring exhaust nozzle, including actuation and engine light-off testing, into the engine that will power the venture-backed company’s future drone…
Advanced TechnologyAnduril, Archer Developing Collaborative, Autonomous Tiltrotor Aircraft To Enable Maneuver Warfare Anduril Industries and Archer Aviation are developing a large hybrid-electric armed reconnaissance tiltrotor aircraft with the speed, range and payload capacity of the Army’s future long-range assault tiltrotor and current attack helicopter—serving as a loyal…
MilitaryDrone Challenge Program Selects 19 Vendors To Compete In Second Gauntlet The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) on July 1 said it invited 19 companies to compete in the final stage of its second challenge round in August with a chance to win…
MilitaryMacGyver, Squishy Tech, YGGY Aviation Among Invitees For DARPA Lift Challenge The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on June 8 announced invitations to 72 teams to demonstrate innovative drone designs capable of carrying at least four times their weight. The list of…
MilitaryDIU Awards $159 Million For Hermeus To Demonstrate High-Mach Flight And Payload Release Hermeus on May 28 said it has received a $159 million contract modification from the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to demonstrate high-Mach flight and high-speed payload carry and release to aid…
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