U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

By Garrett Reim
DARPA has kicked off an effort to detect and track faint objects hundreds of thousands of miles away in cislunar space.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
GPS backup on a chip; DARPA heavy-lift drone challenge; Canada funds air mobility projects; and motors for defense drones.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
Voyager Technologies has acquired ExoTerra Resources, a Hall-effect propulsion developer, for an undisclosed amount.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
DARPA has launched a prize challenge to demonstrate multicopter uncrewed aircraft that can carry payloads more than four times their weight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
As interest grows in rotating detonation engines for hypersonic flight, a startup specialist in the tech says it will receive backing from Lockheed Martin.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky has modified an ex-U.S. Army UH-60L Black Hawk into a flight demonstrator for the proposed U-Hawk uncrewed utility aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Liftoff of New Shepard with six international crewmembers took place under a partly cloudy sky at Launch Site One near Van Horn in West Texas at 9:40 a.m. EDT.
Operations & Safety

By Garrett Reim
DARPA is developing proactive AI that delivers info without being asked. The program monitors pilots’ cognitive load, providing tailored advice.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
DARPA will kick off development of a High-Mach Gas Turbine engine with a 15-month project worth up to $40 million.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Most small UAS are battery powered and limited in flight time—but what about using aerodynamics to boost flight time by soaring the way birds and gliders do?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
DARPA is looking ahead to systems that can bring extremely accurate but fragile quantum sensing to the harsh environments onboard military platforms.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
GE Aerospace named two new propulsion systems that will be offered to power DARPA’s proposed Next Generation Responsive Strike (NextRS) demonstrator aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
DARPA confirmed plans on Aug. 26 to launch development of a High-Mach Gas Turbine (HMGT) engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. may be losing ground in a global race to develop highly maneuverable spacecraft.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Robert Wall, Joe Anselmo
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A House panel has endorsed a DARPA plan to fly a reusable hypersonic aircraft demonstrator for reconnaissance and strike missions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Bell will get a chance to build an X-plane demonstrator for high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing technology based on a stop/fold rotor system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
DARPA has ended its Liberty Lifter effort to build a full-scale seaplane demonstrator earlier than originally expected,
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Quantum sensing threatens the decades-long U.S. reliance on stealth technology.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
AeroVironment’s Wildcat has transitioned to wing-borne forward flight under a DARPA program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The end of the stealth era is coming and it is coming at the hands of quantum sensing, the deputy director of a Pentagon agency says.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
RTX says they have achieved positive thrust with a rotating detonation combustor in a turbine engine in a relevant thrust class for a weapon.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
A DARPA program that set out to demonstrate a new class of UAS has morphed into a drive to transform the way the services acquire capability.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine, Robert Wall
The management strategy for the prized F-47 contract is, “Don’t screw it up,” Boeing Defense and Space Interim CEO Steve Parker tells Aviation Week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
GE Aerospace laid out plans during a recent media event for testing and fielding its fully integrated, hypersonic propulsion systems for missiles and aircraft.
Emerging Technologies