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Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Autonomy Prime was established to engage nontraditional players in the development of autonomous capabilities for U.S. Air Force platforms.

Demonstration and operational testing of the microreactor was targeted to begin in 2027.

Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are vying for the NGAD program while the three military services are teaming on uncrewed aircraft development.

The service is undertaking a series of new munitions programs.

Fifteen years after a B-52 standoff jammers idea was shelved, the venerable bomber will audition for a role as a primary airborne electronic attack platform.

Private midtier bets that its post-production modification and communications expertise could give it a shot over defense giants and OEMs.

The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps have agreed to work together on developing collaborative combat aircraft by standardizing multiple system components.

The Pentagon plans to field thousands of autonomous systems—including aircraft, ships and ground vehicles—on a scale not seen within two years.

Taiwan’s defense urges its government to approve quickly and fund a domestically developed Advanced Defense Fighter, which it says could unlock access to F-35s.

The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman see schedule delays for ICBM replacement as a massive military construction effort takes shape.

The U.S. Navy’s secretive next-generation fighter program has completed concept refinement and has moved into a design maturation phase.

After three decades of studies, the BWB will finally become full-scale as JetZero and Scaled Composites ramp up for a multirole U.S. Air Force project.

The U.S. Air Force’s research and acquisition bureaucracy will play only a supporting role as the service’s energy office leads flight demonstration.

The capital investments by Boeing are supporting the company's "future franchise" programs, which possibly include the Next Generation Air Dominance program.

Umbra wins a contract to study how its advanced space radar technologies could be used in the USAF shift to space for its moving-target indication mission.

U.S. startup Advanced Tactics plans to fly two multi-rotor heavylift VTOLs funded through a U. S. Air Force program.

The U.S. Air Force launched an All-Up-Round AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon in a recent test but is tight-lipped about whether objectives were met.

Members of Niger’s military rose up against President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been under house arrest since July 26.

The award completes a yearlong selection process managed by the Defense Innovation Unit.

Capitol Hill should take limited steps to help the Pentagon improve its budgeting flexibility and speed up acquisition, a congressionally mandated panel says

Several forward fit and retrofit programs will demand potentially thousands of ejection seats in the next few years.

A decision will be announced by the U.S. Air Force on Aug. 16 that could decide the future shape of the strategic mobility fleet.