The U.S. Air Force has elevated its safety investigation into unexplained physiological episodes on the service’s T-6 Texan II trainer fleet, appointed a two-star general to lead the effort.
The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on the modernization of the high-altitude drone, and has floated the possibility of additional production orders, “assuming the necessary direction/authorization is provided.”
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is exploring algorithms that can help its command and control systems learn what is a missile flying through the sky and what is benign.
The Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud acquisition is “a building block” toward deploying and evolving artificial intelligence, according to a top official.
Airbus, one of the three companies involved in the four-nation Typhoon program, announced they had submitted their offer to the German defense ministry on April 24 on the eve of the ILA Airshow here.
Airbus says the trials demonstrated MUM-T capabilities to a so-called Level 5 capability, allowing the user onboard the manned aircraft full command and control over the UAS and its payload, including launch and recovery.
One of the trio of small UK companies behind the AUDS counter-drone system deployed by the U.S. Army has sold ground surveillance radars to India for its Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System program.
The former Oklahoma Republican congressman takes the reins of the agency at a critical time, with the U.S. poised to resume human spaceflight, but on vehicles not of its own design.
The company has revealed to Aerospace DAILY work on two designs aimed at the lighter Future Vertical Lift categories, one being a winged compound helicopter with no tail rotor or push propeller.
Under the UK’s Project Guardian, the system will network British radar sites and airfields to generate a dynamic, real-time depiction of aircraft in the airspace under UK control.
“The idea is to begin to collect data on the human that has not been collected,” according to one NASA official, who said the agency will use several NASA aircraft, including an F/A-18 and F-15, for the assessment.
DRB-HICOM Defense Technologies, a Malaysian firm, is pitching the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) Anka long-endurance drone for the country’s military.
The UK Serious Fraud Office has opened a criminal investigation into Ultra Electronics for suspected corruption in regard to business conduct in Algeria.
