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Joby Aviation has acquired the autonomy division of Xwing, a U.S. startup developing a modular autonomous flight system for aircraft.

With the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the head of Lockheed Martin’s advanced development arm challenges U.S. Air Force planners and competitors.

DIU is interested in partnerships with companies building radiation-tolerant and radiation-hardened microelectronics.

The life expectancy of a future Collaborative Combat Aircraft is not a trivial question.

DIU announced June 3 that it has awarded contracts to Anduril, Integrated Solutions for Systems Inc., Leidos Dynetics and Zone 5 Technologies.

Boeing on May 31 resumed delivering KC-46 tankers to the U.S. Air Force following an almost three-month pause.

The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has confirmed that the Lockheed Martin F-35B that crashed in New Mexico on May 28 was a development test aircraft.

Sierra Nevada is starting work on the Air Force’s E-4B replacement and outlining teammates.

An aircraft resembling a Lockheed Martin F-35 crashed on May 28 at 2 p.m. local time in New Mexico.

Inspection revealed broken part in tanker’s refueling boom, prompting inspections and two-month delay.

The U.S. Air Force has not taken delivery of KC-46 tankers from Boeing in more than two months.

The U.S. Air Force has shown the Northrop Grumman B-21 in flight for the first time.

The U.S. Air Force is reportedly looking to pre-position bombers across the Indo-Pacific.

The Survivable Airborne Operations Center award was a major coup for SNC, which for decades has focused on smaller commercial-derivative modificationprograms.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Starfish Space a contract to launch and operate a new space tug as part of its broader push for in-orbit servicing.

Eric Fanning, head of the Aerospace Industries Association, laid out a list of new legislative priorities.

A U.S. Air Force instructor pilot has died after the ejection seat of a T-6 trainer aircraft activated during ground operations.

Readers write about Boeing and GE leadership, addressing pilot shortages in the U.S. military and the Comac C919’s competitive prospects.

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

The company is exploring how its Medulla research project could boost the computing power of the mission systems of the Hawk.

A USAF F-16C crashed shortly after takeoff in South Korea in 2023 after power outages caused a series of failures to instruments in the aircraft’s cockpit.

The 787 faces new quality assurance woes, but the need to add a freighter to the family has eased.

Service leaders in September 2023 first announced the plan to create six Air Task Forces.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and IHI Corporation could maintain U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16s and Boeing F-15s based in Japan.

The House Armed Services Committee is expressing concern about progress with the Collins Aerospace ACES 5 ejection seat for the U.S. Air Force.