Epirus, a startup building high-power microwave (HPM) applications for UAV deployment, closed a $70 million funding round that included an investment by L3Harris Technologies.

A small team at Hanscom AFB developed a new way to transmit video from the Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) to a ground-based terminal. 

The U.S. Air Force for the first time flew a Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragon Lady with the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm on Dec. 15.

Northrop Grumman helped lead a seed-round venture capital investment in Philadelphia-based Deepwave Digital, and the companies are looking to integrate Deepwave’s edge-compute, artificial intelligence (AI) technology into an “array” of sensor systems to improve capabilities and longevity.

The U.S. military on Dec. 9 was able to demonstrate how a piece of its future military Internet of Things, the Advanced Battle Management System, might work. 

The decision clears BAE Systems to begin production of the electronic warfare upgrade as developmental and operational testing by the 53rd Wing continues.

The contract award scheduled later this month to ether L3Harris or Northrop Grumman will be managed under the more traditional process of an Acquisition Category (ACAT)-1B program of record.

Although the U-2S is mainly known for high-altitude surveillance, the Air Force and Lockheed have been working since 2013 to transform the aircraft into a critical node for the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) by hosting a suite of new technologies.