Aerospace giants Boeing and Northrop Grumman have each been selected by the United States Space Force – the sixth and newest branch of the United States military – to develop […]
Warfighters
DARPA harnesses AI to keep tabs on space weapons, spy satellites on orbit
The system — dubbed Agatha — uses AI to identify nefarious satellites in large constellations and determine their intent. As the Pentagon continues to sound alarms over the growing number […]
GA-ASI developing new ABAD pod for battlefield awareness + Defense
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is working with the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to develop a new Airborne Battlespace Awareness and Defense (ABAD) capability. (Pictured: GA-ASI MQ-9A UAS, […]
iDirect Government partners with Tampa Microwave for MILSATCOM readiness solution
iDirect Government (iDirectGov) has engaged in a partnership with Tampa Microwave that combines iDirect Government’s Tactical Hub and Tampa Microwave’s Quad Band Satellite Simulator (QBSS) to deliver an easy to […]
Red Cat launches robotics + autonomous systems consortium to bridge critical UAS tech
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has formed the Red Cat Futures Initiative (RFI), an independent, industry-wide consortium of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) partners dedicated to putting the most advanced and interoperable […]
Millennium Space Systems selects L3Harris to build the SDA’s electro-optical infrared payloads
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received a contract from Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, to build eight infrared payloads for the SDA’s Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) program. The FOO […]
Red Cat flies into an agreement with Sentien Robotics UAS
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has entered into a partnership with Sentien Robotics that will enable organizations using Sentien’s Hive UAS management platforms to deploy Teal Drones as part of a […]
SpaceX launches DoD’s next-generation operational environmental intelligence satellite
On Thursday, April 11 at 7:25 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the USSF-62 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]
Kratos demos fully virtualized SATCOM over LEO for U.S. Army
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) has successfully demonstrated a fully virtualized SATCOM ground system using Kratos’ OpenSpace® Platform for the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office Command, Control, […]
Kratos + Shield AI conduct AI-piloted flights on the Kratos Firejet
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) and Shield AI, Inc. have successfully completed the first phase of Shield’s AI-piloted flight-testing on-board the Kratos family of UAS, as the […]