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The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance push is giving advanced battery developers like Amprius Technologies a path to scale beyond stalled EV demand.

The unveiling of the X-70 Fractal and promises of more experimental aircraft raise as many questions about NASA’s plans as they answer.

Merlin will demonstrate an autonomous casualty evacuation flight using a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan next year in Morocco for the U.S. military.

The Ukrainian government is seeking transparency from the U.S. regarding the status of numerous military aid commitments.

U.S. startup Grid Aero has announced a strategic partnership with Oshkosh Defense to manufacture uncrewed cargo.

Machina will deploy two “Edge Factories” for designing and making the metallic airframes of large, one-way attack drones on two U.S. Air Force bases.

Editors are joined by Gen. Lee Levy to try and answer the trillion dollar-plus question of what the outcome of the midterm elections really means for the U.S. defense budget.

To say that the 2026 midterms ushered in a “blue wave” would be an understatement.

Cruise missile demand is surging worldwide, although with fewer big military targets left, their strategic value remains deeply uncertain.

A new generation of Democratic lawmakers threatens to wash out the golden era of Trump administration defense initiatives and to rein in Elon Musk’s influence in national security affairs.

The F-35 Joint Program Office announced Nov. 3 that it has started the process of replacing the aircraft’s legacy logistics system with a modernized version.

The Pentagon is “notionally” interested in acquiring a handful of new satellites within the next three years to inform a future cislunar space constellation.

Muon beam part inspection; quadcopter soars on beam power; turning methane into SAF; and ultra-low-NOx hydrogen turbojet.

The Pentagon on Oct. 30 said its appropriated intelligence budget for fiscal 2026 was $30.9 billion, the highest in recent history.

Reach Power says that in September it demonstrated a quadcopter flying for 10 hr. via wireless power beaming.

After three years, the U.S. Space Force has formalized a new avenue to tap into commercial capabilities to assess and respond quickly to orbital events.

A small airport founded by the CIA in Laos during the Vietnam War is the new home for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, the air arm’s first outside China—and probably not the last.

Missile defense startup Long Wall has secured Pentagon financial backing to complete flight trials of its Cyclops interceptor.

The Pentagon has agreed to commit to buying 850 more Lockheed Martin F-35s and maintain annual production at 156 aircraft per year over the next decade.

Natilus received $3.5 million from the Pentagon and Air Force to advance its Kona BWB freighter toward a contested logistics demonstration.

The Pentagon and BAE Systems have agreed to scale up production of laser-guided rocket guidance kits that have become critical in the fight against drones.

Defense companies are increasingly competing on speed—how quickly they can learn, integrate new technologies and deliver usable capabilities.

Will Project Agincourt spur the new U.S. Autonomy Command to great things? Editors discuss the implications of the Pentagon's military autonomy efforts and the broader context of uncrewed systems in modern warfare.

It is easy to see why the Pentagon’s top research and development agency is interested in the idea of passive ranging.

The Defense Department has reached a $22.4 million accord with Voyager Technologies to provide prototypes of next-generation satellite deployment systems for the U.S. Space Force.