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Weapons Systems

Ukraine’s New Guided Glide Bomb Reaches Combat Readiness

Ukraine’s first glide bomb, developed by a Brave1 participant, has passed all required tests and is ready for combat use.

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Defense

SAE Media Group Launches First Dedicated Loitering Munitions Hub

SAE Media Group announced the launch of the Loitering Munitions Hub, a new online platform dedicated exclusively to one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic areas in modern defense. Read on to learn more.

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Defense

B-52 Engine Replacement Program Holds Critical Design Review, Paves Way for F130 Upgrade

The B-52J Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) recently held its Critical Design Review (CDR), a pivotal milestone that enables the...

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Defense

Defense Companies Accelerate CMMC Level 2 Certifications as DoW Continues Three-Year Rollout

Defense manufacturers, engineering services providers, and suppliers are increasingly completing the requirements to achieve Cybersecurity Maturity...

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Electronics & Computers

Army Teams with Defense Manufacturers to Host 'Right to Integrate' Hackathon

Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and leaders from Anduril, Boeing, General Dynamics, L3Harris, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Palantir, Perennial...

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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Rethinking Robotics with Intelligent Materials

Today’s advances in robotics are often driven by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and perception. But in complex and constrained environments, the limiting factor...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Microvision Fast-tracks Adoption of Luminar Tech

Microvision is making speedy progress in automotive, truck, defense markets

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Robotics, Automation & Control

How Machina Labs is Reshaping Defense Manufacturing with AI-Driven 7-Axis Robotics

Machina Labs recently closed its latest round of financing with $124 million, enough to develop a facility featuring up to 50 of its RoboCraftsman cells capable of producing thousands of complex structural assemblies for aerospace and defense customers — a list that already includes Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force, among others. Read on to learn more.

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Unmanned Systems

MyDefence Expands Production, Validation of Wearable and Mobile Counter-UAS Systems

MyDefence has officially opened its U.S. counter uncrewed aircraft systems manufacturing and innovation facility in Oklahoma City, marking a major step in the company’s expansion of its North American production footprint. The latest MyDefence facility became operational in February. Read on to learn more.

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Engineering at the Speed of Conflict: The New Era of Defense Testing

High-volume production of drones and missile systems is reshaping the defense industry, placing unprecedented strain on testing infrastructures that were never designed for speed, scale, or rapid change. Automated and modular test technologies are emerging as a solution. Read on to learn more.

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Defense

Keeping Pace with Changes in Defense Technology: Why Embedded Systems Must Deliver Agility, Resilience, and Endurance

Embedded systems are the backbone of communications, autonomy, logistics, and command, some of the Army’s most crucial areas. When designed effectively, they embody three essential qualities — agility, resilience, and endurance — that allow the Army and its partners to adapt as needed, withstand disruption, and sustain performance across decades of service. Read on to learn more.

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Defense

C-UAS Tactical Vehicle Testing

American Rheinmetall recently conducted a live-fire demonstration of its Ultra-Short Range Air Defense counter-uncrewed aerial system system integrated onto a tactical vehicle during testing at the Big Sandy Range in Arizona. Read on to learn more.

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Unmanned Systems

Marines Evaluate Fiber-Optic FPV Drones

U.S. Marines with Marine Expeditionary Force partnered with the Defense Innovation Unit and industry professionals during a three-day event in January to evaluate first-person view small uncrewed aerial systems that use fiber optic cables, marking the U.S. Marine Corps’ first field evaluation of the technology for sUAS employment in contested environments. Read on to learn more.

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Weapons Systems

Third-Generation Modular Directed Energy Weapon System

AeroVironment announced the release of LOCUST® X3, the third generation of AV’s high-energy laser weapon system that delivers precise, speed-of-light engagement for rapid defeat of uncrewed aerial threats. Read on to learn more.

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Aerospace

Draper Liquid Rocket Engine’s First Flight

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Ursa Major recently executed a flight of the Affordable Rapid Missile Demonstrator powered by the Draper liquid rocket engine, achieving supersonic speeds and demonstrating concepts of operations. Read on to learn more about it.

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Aerospace

Airbus Equips Kratos Drones for German Air Force UCCA System

Airbus is working to offer the German Air Force an operational Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft system by 2029. Read on to learn more.

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Defense

The Drone Equation: Proportional Response to the UAS Threat

Drones do not follow predictable patterns. They can fly high and fast or low and slow with minimal radar signatures, attacking individually or in swarms from kilometers away or at the fence line. This operational flexibility demands layered defense architecture. Read on to learn more.

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Defense

Defense Research Program Developing Tactical Clocks for GPS-Free Navigation

Synchronizing time in modern warfare – often down to billionths of a second – is critical for mission success. DARPA's Robust Optical Clock Network program enables precision timekeeping, even in contested and/or GPS-denied environments, creating the opportunity for unprecedented endurance and coordination for warfighters around the world. Read on to learn more.

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Aerospace

TITAN‑AM Program to Industrialize Titanium Additive Manufacturing for Large Aerostructures

GKN Aerospace has launched the Titanium Industrialization and Technology Advancement for Near-net Additive Manufacturing (TITAN-AM) program, an...

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AR/AI

Smarter Aerospace Manufacturing & Design with Digital Twins and Agentic AI

The fusion of digital twins and agentic AI is revolutionizing aerospace manufacturing and design by enabling intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous systems. This...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

NRL Satellite Payloads to Test Situational Awareness, Debris Observation and Detection

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) successfully launched three advanced experimental payloads aboard the Department of War (DoW) Space Test...

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Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Welds First Ever Metal 3D-Printed Submarine Component

Engineers recently completed inspection, testing, and shipboard installation of a welded, additively manufactured (AM) copper‑nickel flange for the USS...

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Research Lab

Researchers Introduce New Digital Calibration Method for 'Born Qualified' Parts

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is developing a comprehensive suite of capabilities to ensure that additively...

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Materials

Army Advances Additive Manufacturing From Experimental Tech to Enterprise Sustainment Tool

The U.S. Army’s adoption of additive manufacturing took another major step forward in March with the opening of a new “Additive Makerspace” at...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Airbus Tests Low Cost Missile on New Bird of Prey Interceptor Drone

Airbus completed the first demonstration flight of its new Bird of Prey drone, featuring a low-cost interceptor missile, at a military training area in northern Germany.

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Weapons Systems

Apache’s New 30mm Proximity Ammunition

The Apache Attack Helicopter AH-64 has reached a new milestone in battlefield capability with the successful live fire test of the 30x113mm XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive (APEX) ammunition at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. Read on to learn more.

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Manned Systems

Autonomous Undersea Gliders for Anti-Submarine Warfare

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated — from January 17 through January 22 — conducted an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) demonstration in Icelandic waters using its series of autonomous underwater vehicles. Read on to learn more.

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Defense

New Autonomous Undersea Vehicle Can Recharge Other Vessels

Lockheed Martin has unveiled the Lamprey Multi Mission Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (MMAUV), a breakthrough “plug-and play” submersible that gives U.S. and allied warfighters technological and strategic advantages in today’s contested maritime arena. Read on to learn more.

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Aerospace

Navy Declares IOC for Small Diameter Bomb

The U.S. Navy recently declared initial operational capability for the Small Diameter Bomb II on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, marking a significant advancement in the fleet’s precision-strike technology. Read on to learn more.