The selected teams—Boeing, EpiSci, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Heron Systems and physicsAI—will build on the results of the AlphaDogfight Trials won by Heron Systems in August.
Airbus and Eurofighter have signed contracts to deliver 38 Tranche 4-model Eurofighters to the German Air Force in the first follow-on order for the aircraft for one of the partner nations.
Achieving a return to the Moon’s surface with human explorers by 2024 tops a list of seven signature management and performance challenges that NASA faces over the coming decade, an assessment from the agency’s inspector general says.
NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force has taken delivery of its fifth Northrop Grumman RQ-4D Global Hawk unmanned air system, completing the fleet.
Two senior House Progressive Caucus members are requesting that President-Elect Joe Biden nominate a defense secretary who has not been previously employed as a defense contractor, which may rule out rumored favorite Michele Flournoy.
Aireon on Nov. 12 announced an agreement with the FAA allowing the agency access to its satellite-routed aircraft surveillance data to evaluate different air traffic control applications.
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) suggests to heavily upgrading the Surion for a program that could greatly enlarge the South Korean army’s utility helicopter fleet
Northrop Grumman is looking to become the third major missile provider to the Pentagon and allied customers, the company’s chief executive said Nov. 11.
Senate appropriators are looking to accelerate two weapons programs—the U.S. Air Force’s Golden Horde and the Army’s long-range fires and air and missile defense development.
Raytheon Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Blue Canyon Technologies, a pioneering provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components, for about $350 million.
Aerospace DAILY understands that SOCOM expects an independent review of the Armed Overwatch program will be complete in early or the spring of 2021, allowing the flight demonstration to begin in the summer.
Senate appropriators are calling out the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps for misusing aircraft advance procurement funding, according to a report accompanying the panel’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations bill.
The sources sought notice asked interested companies to supply a wide range of information, such as a rough order of magnitude estimate for the cost and schedule of developing and delivering up 8,000 missiles.
The $3.84 billion lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway that NASA envisions as part of a long-term strategy to establish a sustained human presence at the Moon is unlikely to be in place in time to support the Trump administration’s goal of returning astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024, an audit by the agency’s inspector general says.
NASA and SpaceX on Nov. 10 completed the Flight Readiness Review for the first post-shuttle, operational International Space Station (ISS) crew rotation mission from the U.S., paving the way for a launch attempt of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:49 p.m. EST on Nov. 14 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The day after President Donald Trump fired former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a slew of Pentagon officials have resigned from their posts, including the acting under secretary of defense for policy.
