The Army’s top acquisition and technology official confirmed to lawmakers on Tuesday the service has ended a science and technology effort to develop the Strategic Long Range Cannon (SLRC) due to cost and capability redundancy concerns. During a House Armed Services Tactical Air and Land Forces ...

The Pentagon’s fiscal 2024 budget may lay out a future path for engines for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter–a course of action that may upgrade the existing Pratt & Whitney [RTX] F135 engines or replace them with more fuel efficient ones that would give the fighter more range. ...

DUGWAY, Utah — Over 30 first time technology events, participation from seven international partners and the launching of the largest “wolf pack” swarm of new Air-Launched Effects (ALE) drones to date. The Army last week concluded its second Future Vertical Lift (FVL)-led EDGE experiment ...

RTX Ventures, a capital investment group recently set up by Raytheon Technologies [RTX], on Thursday said it made a strategic investment in the start-up company Hermeus Corp., which is developing hypersonic aircraft for commercial and defense applications. The value of the investment wasn’t ...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to use spiral development to field small satellites for military use every two years–a fraction of the time required for large DoD acquisition programs, and SDA is using a biannual “warfighter council” to inform evolving SDA requirements ...

While the unit flyaway cost of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-22 was $155 million in today dollars and the unit flyaway cost of the company’s F-35A is running more than $85 million, the manned component of the U.S. Air Force’s classified Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program may be ...