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

Umbra Space is the latest commercial space company to show that bistatic coupling of two radar satellites could be used to implement moving target indication.

Future battlefields with dispersed units and contested logistics are driving DARPA’s new portfolio of disruptive investments.

The U.S. is marshaling unprecedented resources to shore up its chipmaking capabilities. Results thus far are mixed.

High-speed testbeds make progress; validating a digital twin; non-CO2 emissions road map; power-beamed UAV; SAF via bacteria.

The $1.9 million Phase 1 contract under the Energy Web Aircraft program calls for Otto and Swift Engineering to build the uncrewed air vehicle.

Lockheed Martin Ventures led a group of 14 investors that raised a $12.5 million seed round investment in Firestorm Labs.

DARPA has selected Northrop Grumman to study a concept to develop a railroad on the Moon that could transport humans, supplies and other resources.

Spirit AeroSystems will build and test a large, experimental wing to support high-speed aircraft applications under a new DARPA program.

The U.S. Air Force wants the Raytheon Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) to transition to production ahead of any tests of the missile.

The “Rubble to Rockets” (R2) program first emerged in a public invitation sent out by DARPA for an Industry Day scheduled on March 18.

GlobalFoundries (GF) has been awarded $1.5 billion through the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act that will be used to manufacture secure chips.

The service will select two companies to begin building CCAs, though with a cost-sharing agreement to bring along a third.

Russia’s Siberian Research Institute for Aviation has performed the first test flight of Partizan, its ultra STOL transport aircraft demonstrator.

The DARPA competition seeks an aircraft that can take off and land vertically and cruise faster than today’s helicopters and tiltrotors.

DARPA grants under the umbrella of REMA have been awarded to Anduril, RTX, Leidos, Northrop Grumman and SoarTech.

Round the world on hydrogen; first-responder VTOL competition; stop-fold tiltrotor; another Chinese eVTOL.

Bell has completed sled tests of the stop/fold rotor concept for a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing X-plane being designed under a DARPA competition.

A new contract awarded to Raytheon aims to expand the application and understanding of high-power microwave weapons beyond capabilities now entering service.

New office outlines plans for future servicing, mobility and logistics.

The Aurora Flight Sciences team is competing with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) during phase 1B of the Liberty Lifter program.

A specialist in experimental rotorcraft, Piasecki eyes the transition from R&D to production.

Active flow control promises to be lighter, less complex and higher-performing than movable flight controls.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has appointed Kurt “Spuds” Vogel to serve as the agency’s associate administrator in charge of the STMD, effective Jan. 16.

DARPA has decided to move forward with a new X-plane designed by Aurora Flight Sciences.

General Electric has released new details of a plan to achieve reusable, air-breathing propulsion at hypersonic speeds by 2025.