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Briana Reilly was a Pentagon emerging tech reporter until December 2022. She previously covered the Air Force for Inside Defense after joining the publication in June 2021. Before that, she spent five years covering state politics and government in Wisconsin for The Capital Times and WisPolitics.com.
With dynamic spectrum sharing experimentation underway at Hill Air Force Base, UT, testbed vendor Nokia is gearing up to support application developers' efforts to build on top of the newly deployed 5G cellular network while keeping an eye trained on opportunities to potentially enhance the available use cases for its work.
Bolstered by a $60 million Air Force-backed contract, Hermeus is working toward developing the full-scale flight engine for its Quarterhorse concept aircraft as the aerospace start-up barrels toward a potential first flight test of the platform within the first half of 2023.
The Air Force's chief scientist is looking to craft a microelectronics strategy for the service by the end of March -- a document she says will not only assess current and future needs but also “where those parts can come from.”
Implemented foreign military sales totaled $34.8 billion in fiscal year 2021, the State Department announced today, a drop of some $16 billion compared to the prior year.
The F-35 joint program office is surveying suppliers on the potential for implementing new cost reduction strategies over the life cycle of the fighter aircraft, a request for information shows.
The Air Force's Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon faced "an unknown issue" during an attempted booster test flight this month, the service's program executive officer for weapons confirmed, marking the latest testing mishap for the hypersonic missile.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is looking to incorporate strike and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities into its air-breathing hypersonic effort, according to a new contract notice, which clears the way for an anticipated request for proposals next month.
After securing a number of military service deals in recent years, Google's cloud wing is positioning itself to expand existing partnerships and win major contracts within the Defense Department, the latter of which, a company executive said, would help "level the playing field" between the company and its competitors.
An armed cruise missile, deployed from a pallet dropped from an MC-130J, successfully destroyed its target during a capstone live-fire test this week as part of the Air Force's Rapid Dragon program.
ST. LOUIS -- Boeing's T-7 program manager said the company is "keenly interested" in the Air Force's new requirements surrounding a future advanced tactical trainer and expressed confidence the platform set to replace the aging T-38 could meet those needs.
The head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's LongShot drone program hopes to wrap up the preliminary design work tied to the effort's initial phase by the close of this coming summer, as officials continue to look toward fiscal year 2024 for the first potential flight test.
Northrop Grumman is working with the Defense Department's Test Resource Management Center to reconfigure a handful of retired Global Hawks to support ongoing hypersonics system testing efforts through the SkyRange program, the company announced this week.
Leveraging "a new model for how government does business," Platform One officials are hoping their recent agreement allowing six companies to resell two products core to the Air Force's software development effort will bolster availability, spur more DevSecOps environments and help inform whether and how other services are commercialized in the future.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says in-the-works efforts to develop a program pairing combat drones and B-21 bombers showcase officials' commitment to leveraging unmanned aerial vehicles and partially serve as an answer to past criticism the service has received "for not moving fast enough and for not being innovative enough."
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems unveiled today a new unmanned aerial system based on the MQ-9 Reaper and MQ-1C Gray Eagle and capable of carrying up to 16 Hellfire missiles.
Lawmakers' compromise defense policy bill retains efforts from the House and Senate to set requirements tied to the future of the Air Force's Long-Range Standoff Weapon.
Senators Tuesday night signaled their support for the Biden administration's plan to sell up to 280 AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles to Saudi Arabia, as lawmakers declined to consider a resolution aiming to block the transaction.
House and Senate authorizers have proposed lifting legislative constraints on retiring one legacy tanker, retaining a one-year A-10 divestment prohibition and tweaking proposed reduction limitations for the B-1 bomber fleet in the compromise version of the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill. (UPDATED)
Flight testing for the Air Force's Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon is poised to resume in the coming months, the program's director said this week, following the conclusion of a failure review board's analysis of the hypersonic missile's latest testing mishap.
Developmental and operational testing for one component of the Air Force's new Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft is slated to occur in calendar years 2023 and 2024, a BAE Systems official said, with the first operational platform set to be delivered in late 2024.