Ahead of entry-into-service of the Boeing 777X in the Middle East, GE Aerospace is studying a potential deployment of its 747-400 flying testbed to the Gulf equipped with a GE9X engine.

Venture capital funding in American defense startups is on track for its best year ever, according to private market data firm PitchBook.

Amazon has rebranded its Project Kuiper satellite internet constellation to “Amazon Leo,” signaling that it is moving from R&D toward commercial operations.

Forterra, a startup focused on autonomous defense mission systems, has raised $238 million in a Series C funding round led by Moore Strategic Ventures.

U.S. startup Aether Fuels has signed an agreement with Singapore-based refiner Aster to build its first commercial-scale SAF production facility.

DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative is looking at 11 companies, with the goal of achieving a "useful quantum computer" by 2030.

UK’s Faraday Institution is conducting a High Performance Cell Challenge that it hopes can spur battery density to enable electric regional flight.

There are varying degrees of progress for the four major Western eVTOL startups, and they all provided reports for the third quarter of 2025.