Advanced TechnologyStartup Developing Blended Wing Aircraft For Cargo Use Raises $28 Million Natilus, a startup focused on developing blended-wing aircraft for cargo and passenger applications, on Feb. 10 said it has raised $28 million in an early funding round that will allow it to…
MilitaryUSAF To Award Sole Source Contract To BAE Systems To Resolve Deficiency Reports on ALR-56 The Air Force is to award BAE Systems a sole source contract to resolve deficiency reports (DRs) for the company’s ALR-56 radar warning receivers (RWRs) on F-15 and F-16 fighters and C-130 airlifters. “This…
UnmannedGrid Aero Raises $20 Million As It Preps To Begin Flying Long-Range Cargo UAS Grid Aero on Jan. 26 said it has raised $20 million in a funding round to move the Lifter Lite long-range, autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) into flight testing and use in…
AI & AutonomyMarine Corps Awards Northrop Grumman MUX TACAIR Contract Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Jan. 8 that the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Uncrewed Expeditionary Tactical Aircraft (MUX TACAIR) Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program has awarded a…
MilitaryUSAF To Pursue Degraded Visual Environment System For HH-60W Without Helmet Mounted Display To save funds, the U.S. Air Force plans to pursue a Degraded Visual Environment System (DVES) without a helmet mounted display (HMD) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Sikorsky HH-60W Jolly Green II combat rescue…
Aircraft MaintenancePentagon Inspector General Highlights Continuing F-35 Readiness Concerns While Air Force F-35A and Navy F-35C fighters by Lockheed Martin were in the U.S. strike package against Venezuela on Jan. 3, a December Pentagon Inspector General (IG) report highlighted continuing readiness…
MilitaryF-22 Controls Unmanned General Atomics MQ-20 Drone In Industry Demo General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) on Nov. 17 announced the successful test of an F-22 Raptor fighter controlling an MQ-20 Avenger unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) for the first time in…
MilitaryUSAF To Award Pratt & Whitney Engine Performance Restoration Contract For C-17 By End Of FY 2027 The Air Force plans to award a 10-year firm fixed price contract at the end of fiscal 2027 to RTX‘s Pratt & Whitney for the restoration of the company’s F117 engines for…
AI & AutonomyElectronic Warfare and Air-to-Ground Missions Focus of GA-ASI Gambit 6 Design General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) said on Nov. 4 that it is developing the Gambit 6–the company’s latest version of the Gambit series drones–for electronic warfare and air-to-ground operations. The latest…
MilitaryGE Aerospace’s F110-GE-129 Engine To Power Shield AI X-BAT GE Aerospace‘s F110-GE-129 engine with the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) is to power Shield AI‘s future X-BAT drone fighter jet, according to a Memorandum of Understanding between the companies. U.S. Air…