MilitaryMore Than 20 Companies In The Running For CCA, Increment 2, Air Force Says While the Air Force said in February that it had picked nine companies initially for Increment 2 of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, more than 20 remain eligible for awards, as…
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…
MilitaryLow Radar Cross Section Of MQ-28 Ghost Bat Validated, Boeing Says Boeing said on June 1 that it has validated the low Radar Cross Section (RCS) of the company’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone. “The MQ-28’s RCS reduces the range that enemy radars can…
AI & AutonomyHermeus’ Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 Aircraft Goes Supersonic In First For Unmanned Flight Less than three months after the first flight of the Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 unmanned aircraft, Hermeus on Tuesday said the jet-powered aircraft achieved supersonic speeds in its second flight, a first in aviation history.…
MilitaryF-35 Program And Lockheed Martin To Finish F-35 PTMS Analysis Soon, As HASC Argues Block 4 “Underfunded” The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) and Lockheed Martin are undertaking a Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) analysis to specify what systems the fighter will need to have between 62 kilowatts…
MilitaryRedwire Says Awarded Large Drone Contract From NATO Ally Redwire Corp. on Tuesday said it received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract from a NATO ally to deliver the company’s Penguin Mk3 unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Redwire said the contract is valued in…
MilitaryMQ-25 Okayed For Production With Milestone C Approval The Navy on May 19 announced the Boeing MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned tanker aircraft officially received its Milestone C approval, setting it up for Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) later this year. The service…
MilitaryLess Than $400 Million Needed to Modify VC-25B Bridge Aircraft, USAF Estimates The nearly decade-long program to develop and field two VC-25B Air Force One planes by Boeing has a price tag thus far of more than $4.2 billion, but the service estimates that the cost…
MilitaryUSAF To Meet With Companies On Support Equipment For B-52 CERP As the U.S. Air Force prepares to modify two B-52H bombers later this year for the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP), the bomber directorate’s contracting office at Tinker AFB, Okla., is to…
MilitaryMarines Tap Sikorsky, Robinson’s Unmanned R66 For Medium Resupply Drone Development Effort The Marine Corps has selected Sikorsky and Robinson Helicopter’s R66 Turbinetruck for the second increment of the Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle–Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) development program, the companies said on April 27. Sikorsky said it…
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