MilitaryDARPA Working on Airborne-Launch-and-Recovery, Multi-Use 'Gremlin' Drones DARPA is progressing toward its plan to demonstrate airborne launch and recovery of multiple unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), targeted for late 2019. Now in its third and final phase, the goal for…
MilitaryBall Aerospace Completes Tests for US Air Force, DARPA Ball Aerospace has successfully completed the second of five evaluations of the Space Evaluation and Analysis Capability (SEAC) testbed it is developing for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's…
MilitaryBAE Showcases Successful Autonomous Software BAE Systems has developed software that autonomously provides information to pilots when communication networks are disrupted to help them avoid threats and complete missions when that capability would otherwise be hindered. BAE…
MilitaryUS Army Wants to Partner with Aurora Flight Sciences for Drones The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is interested in unmanned aircraft systems from Aurora Flight Sciences. The Virginia-based engineering firm hosted a visit from some Army aerospace engineers earlier this month, the Army…
MilitaryDARPA, Boeing Spaceplane Would be New Class of Hypersonic Aircraft What do you get when you mix a business jet with a rocket? Presumably, it would result in Phantom Express, Boeing and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) XS-1 program…
Embedded AvionicsAurora Proves Robot Co-Pilot can Fly a Boeing 737 Aurora Flight Sciences continued to push the boundaries of what might be possible in future commercial aircraft cockpits with the most recent successful flight demonstration of its work as part of Defense…