A helicopter maker and an electric aircraft startup just proved they can bolt cutting-edge autonomy software onto a brand-new aircraft in under two weeks, a pace that would have sounded absurd for military aviation programs just a few years ago. Sikorsky, the helicopter manufacturer owned by Lockheed Martin, announced at the Farnborough International Airshow that […]

Nishati Power Technologies announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued it Patent No. 12,671,257, covering hybrid power generation technology built specifically to solve that problem for troops operating far from any power grid. The issue Nishati’s patent addresses sounds technical, but it plays out as a very physical headache for soldiers in the […]

The U.S. Navy has committed up to $42.7 million to keep that cable, and the sensitive electronics packed inside it, working and improving for the next five years. The Department of War awarded the contract to L3 Technologies’ Chesapeake Sciences Division, a Millersville, Maryland-based company that has spent more than a decade building the Navy’s […]

A drone manufacturer founded by two former teenage drone-racing prodigies has landed a Pentagon contract worth up to $500 million to supply first-person-view attack drones to the U.S. Army, the Wall Street Journal reported. Neros Technologies, based in El Segundo, California, will mass-produce the low-cost, expendable drones that have come to define modern battlefield tactics […]

A U.S. Air Force and industry tandem developed and tested a new cheap cruise missile, Rusty Dagger, in record time, and the pace of that work is now difficult to compare with any previous program the service has run. What has traditionally taken years came together here in months. Driven by urgent frontline need and […]

The company that helped supply Ukraine’s front lines with cheap, mass-produced attack drones just announced it is racing to build the exact opposite: a drone built specifically to hunt and kill other drones. Neros Technologies posted a video on July 10 showing early testing of what the company calls Bandit, a counter-unmanned aircraft system, or […]