MilitaryDIU Seeks Platforms For Magnetic Data Collection To Support Precision Navigation The Defense Innovation Unit last Friday issued a solicitation seeking prototype solutions for airborne magnetic data collection platforms that would support the development of magnetic map data as an alternative to GPS…
MilitaryEngineering Analysis Underway For Upgraded F-35, F-22 Based On NGAD Development Lockheed Martin has begun the “engineering analysis” around adding sixth-generation features to the company’s fifth-generation fighters based on development work it did on the losing bid for the Air Force’s Next-Generation Air…
MilitaryAutonomous Drone Navigation Startup Tycho.AI Exits Stealth With $10 Million Raise Tycho.AI, a startup developing autonomous navigation software for fast, low-flying drones in GPS-jammed environments, on Oct. 7 emerged from stealth with a $10 million Series A round to scale the company’s engineering…
MilitaryBoeing Says MQ-28 Demonstrations Prove Operational Effectiveness Boeing on Sept. 1 said it and the Royal Australian Air Force have proven the “operational viability” of the MQ-28 Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) through a series of capability demonstrations that concluded…
MilitaryPBS Aerospace Opens Turbojet Engine Facility In Georgia PBS Aerospace, a business of Czech-based engineering company PBS Group, on Sept. 4 established its headquarters in Georgia, where the turbojet engine manufacturer also opened a new facility to build propulsion systems…
MilitaryHundreds Of Switchblades Delivered So Far In First Replicator Tranche, DIU Official Says The contractor supplying Switchblade loitering munitions to the Defense Department under the first phase of the Replicator initiative has delivered “hundreds” of systems to a customer who has fielded them, a Defense…
AI & AutonomyAirbus Flight Tests Unmanned Helicopter With Shield AI’s Autonomy Pilot Airbus Group’s U.S. defense business recently conducted the first flight test of an unmanned H145 helicopter using an autonomy pilot software from Shield AI in support of a Marine Corps aerial logistics…
MilitaryDoD, Partners Demonstrate Beyond Line-Of-Sight Drone Cargo Flights In National Airspace A Defense Department development program to demonstrate uncrewed aerial logistics beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) in the national airspace has resulted in a series of successful flights, an important milestone for potentially making…