UnmannedSikorsky Details Successful ‘Full Mission Profile’ Demos With Rotor Blown Wing UAS Concept Sikorsky on Monday detailed recent successful demonstrations with its “rotor blown wing” unmanned aircraft system (UAS), flying its prototype in both helicopter and “winged aircraft” mode through a “full mission profile.” The…
MilitaryDARPA Selects Six Companies To Continue In Long-Endurance VTOL UAS Program The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week said it selected six companies to continue in the risk reduction and component testing phase of its program to develop vertical take-off-and-landing (VTOL)…
Advanced Air MobilityNASA, Sikorsky, and DARPA Develop Automation Software Self-flying air taxis are emerging as game changers for the transportation of passengers and cargo. Autonomous aerial vehicles could redefine connectivity between urban hubs and rural areas. But for this futuristic vision…
MilitaryNorthrop Unveils DARPA Shipboard Drone Concept for Navy Tactical Missions Northrop Grumman has unveiled the design of the new autonomous uncrewed vertical take-off and landing aircraft capable of operating from Navy ships at sea that it will build under a new contract…
AI & AutonomyNASA Conducts New Series of Flight Tests with Autonomous Sikorsky Helicopter Pilots and researchers from NASA began conducting research flights with the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft, or SARA, in March. The system uses Sikorsky’s MATRIX Technology that is designed to enable operators to…
IIOTBAE Building Machine-Learning Tool Under DARPA Contract DARPA has tapped BAE Systems to produce a new machine learning-powered tool that allows for the rapid deciphering of unique radio frequency signals, the company said Monday. The new DARPA deal is worth up…
MilitaryDARPA Wants BAE Machine Learning Software To Pick Out Enemy Signals Among Many BAE Systems is developing machine learning algorithms aimed at deciphering radio-frequency signals for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under a contract worth up to $9.2 million. Part of DARPA's…
MilitaryDARPA's Remote-Controlled Black Hawk The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a drop-in kit to enable the automation or remote-control of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft. Called Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS), the U.S.…
MilitaryDARPA Seeks 'Mosaic Warfare' Approach to Future Conflicts The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) wants the Department of Defense (DOD) to fully embrace its “mosaic” warfare approach to modernizing how its air, land, sea, space and cyber domains engage…
MilitaryDOD Focused on Beating Russia, China in Hypersonics The Pentagon’s effort to build hypersonic weapons by the early 2020s and ahead of near-peer competitors will require the services to be more direct with their industry partners to make improved use…