DARPA has issued a formal request for information (RFI) for the Airborne Energy Well project – a method of recharging drones while in flight using laser-shooting tanker planes. Once in use, the technology is expected […]
Ghost Robotics’ robot dog – Vision 60 – has been deployed on patrol at the Tyndall Air Force base for almost two years. Vision 60 now has the capability of swimming. Vision 60 is already […]
CanX-7 (Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment-7) – a de-orbiting nanosatellite demonstration mission – has successfully de-orbited a 3.5kg nanosatellite using drag sail technology. The project – based out of UTIAS/SFL (University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace […]
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and L3 Harris have each been awarded 90-day, $2 million contracts by the U.S. Air Force to develop a new, short-range air-to-ground missile. The Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) will be able […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate recently issued a request for information for the Low Collateral Effects Interceptor (LCEI) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) project. LCEI will be an autonomous aircraft able to detect, track, […]
Northrop Grumman is currently developing the Jackal suicide drone – a turbojet-powered ‘sprint’ loitering weapon system designed to bridge the capability gap between the current propeller-driven suicide drones and the need for “tactical kinetic, intelligence, […]
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Division, Crane (NSWC Crane) is working with Kleos Space – a Radio Frequency Reconnaissance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Mission-as-a-Service provider (MaaS) – on a project tracking ship movements from space using […]
The DARPA Microsystems Technology Office recently issued a broad agency announcement for the H6 program which will seek to develop ultra-small, low power clocks that can maintain microsecond precision for at least one week in […]
DARPA’s Liberty Lifter project is seeking to develop a new vehicle concept that will expand upon existing cargo aircraft by providing revolutionary heavy air lift abilities from the sea. The proposed long-range, low-cost X-plane capable […]
After a streak of three consecutive failed tests, the U.S. Air Force has finally successfully test-launched a prototype of an AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon hypersonic missile (ARRW) – potentially paving the way for it […]
Student researchers from the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder have designed a compactable antenna that would allow for more powerful radio communications on smaller satellites. Their project […]
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Eglin Air Force Base’s Integrated Test Team have successfully demonstrated a new low-cost, air-delivered, ship-killing smart bomb. The trial was part of the QUICKSINK Joint Capability Technology […]
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