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RTX and Shield AI have entered into a partnership focusing on integrating artificial intelligence and autonomy capabilities into select RTX defense products, such as loitering munitions and sensors, to deliver enhanced autonomous capabilities to U.S. and allied defense forces. Shield AI’s Hivemind will be integrated with defense systems to deploy the first operational weapon powered […] More
Riverside Research has partnered with Anduril Industries to enhance the cybersecurity of critical defense capabilities. The collaboration aims to apply advanced formal methods technologies developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to Anduril’s Lattice software platform and the critical defense systems used by national security agencies and warfighters, Riverside Research said Tuesday. Securing the […] More
Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, will supply TJ150 engines for integration into the Leidos Black Arrow small cruise missile under a contract with Dynetics, a Leidos company. The compact, high-performance turbojet engine production work already began in April, with completion expected in the first quarter of 2026, RTX said Monday, adding that the contract […] More
Lockheed Martin has introduced AI Fight Club, an artificial intelligence proving ground where teams of industry experts can compete to demonstrate AI-powered capabilities designed to support the Department of Defense in protecting national security. AI Fight Club, which will use a synthetic environment that simulates realistic air, land, sea and space domain scenarios, will be […] More
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. a $99.3 million sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to advance GHOST, which the Department of Defense described as “a hybrid-electric propulsion ducted fan next-generation intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance/strike unmanned aerial system.” Work, including providing capabilities for operations in contested environments, will be performed at Poway, […] More
Figure Eight Federal has integrated its Artemis data labeling platform with Microsoft Azure’s cloud-native platform-as-a-service offering to accelerate responsible artificial intelligence development for defense and intelligence applications. Pairing Artemis with Microsoft’s PaaS services would address the lack of transparency and data governance challenges impeding AI innovation processes, including data labeling, model training and evaluation, F8F […] More
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. and Ultra Maritime will combine their technologies to provide the United States and its allies with the capability to more effectively detect and track submarines in hostile, GPS-denied environments. Under the partnership, GA-ASI’s MQ-9B SeaGuardian unmanned aerial system will be paired with miniaturized, low-power sonobuoys and receivers, creating an assured […] More
V2X has partnered with Bell Textron to deliver a next-generation training capability for Flight School Next, an advanced rotary-wing training program that aims to modernize and enhance training for U.S. Army aviators. Scope of the Partnership V2X said that under the partnership, which was formalized under a memorandum of understanding, it will provide maintenance and […] More
The speed and efficacy of the agentic artificial intelligence integration into the U.S. defense strategy are expected to contribute to ensuring the success of U.S. and allied joint warfighters on the future battlefield. In an opinion piece posted on the ECS website, Karthik Srinivasan, vice president of defense and intel strategy, and Austin Amaya, director […] More
Kepler Communications, in partnership with French optical ground station company Cailabs, has demonstrated space-to-ground optical data relay in multiple scenarios for the first time. Data transmissions were performed between the optical Pathfinder satellite equipped with TESAT’s SCOT80 terminal in low Earth orbit and Cailabs’ optical ground station in France, demonstrating space-to-ground laser links that meet […] More
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has selected Viasat to prototype and test a new space optical terminal for crosslink communications between orbits. The work will be performed under the Phase 2 Enterprise Space Terminal contract awarded through the Space Enterprise Consortium via an other transaction agreement, Viasat said Tuesday. Building on the Phase […] More
Shubhi Mishra, founder and CEO of Raft and a two-time Wash100 award recipient, said investing in data fusion capabilities is the key to building the Golden Dome, a system of space and ground technology President Donald Trump plans to build to defend against ballistic, hypersonic and advanced cruise missiles. In an opinion piece published on […] More
