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Apr 11, 2016
Airbus Group and Siemens have signed a long-term collaboration agreement to develop hybrid-electric propulsion for small airliners, building on work already done on light aircraft.
Apr 11, 2016
Darpa contract for Northrop Grumman will develop MEMS-based miniature inertial measurement units to a level where they can replace ring-laser and fiber-optic gyros for guidance of precision weapons when GPS is denied.
Apr 11, 2016
Darpa spaceplane heads toward flight; Reusable hypersonic testbed needed; Carter touts faster CarterCopter; Battelle’s DroneDefender proves popular; Local Motors to crowdsource UAV for Airbus; Micro-UAS rules recommended to FAA
Apr 08, 2016
Given the scale of the challenges for big aerospace companies, one wonders how anyone succeeds.
Apr 07, 2016
Inflation-adjusted U.S. defense spending through the end of this decade will fall off after 2016 into a sustained period of roughly level annual budgets at about $600 billion.
Apr 04, 2016
An analysis of the latest UAS sightings reported to the FAA shows one-third came close enough to be potentially hazardous, but few required evasive action.
Apr 04, 2016
Toughening up GPS; bottle-to-throttle biofuel ready; robot repairs in GEO; autonomous Loyal Wingman wanted; Champ microwave missile puts gloves back on.
Apr 04, 2016
Darpa thinks volleys of low-cost UAVs launched and recovered in flight could help manned aircraft break though sophisticated integrated air defenses.