EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

A Boeing-led Australian industry team has presented the first unmanned Loyal Wingman aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force, a historic milestone for the company and the Commonwealth according to officials.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Sensor solution provider HENSOLDT has developed a modular airborne electronic combat system: Kalætron Attack. By neutralising enemy fire control radars at different distances, it is designed to preserve freedom of movement for the air forces that deploy it and their allies.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

AeroVironment, Inc., unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) manufacturer, announced the availability of Quantix Recon, a fully-automated reconnaissance solution that is designed to deliver high resolution, geo-referenced terrain, vegetation, and infrastructure imagery, intended to provide ground forces with on-demand actionable intelligence.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

BAE Systems has won a contract with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop machine learning analytics as a service -- a first-of-its-kind, cloud-based model for government use that intends to provide an automated service that leverages commercial and open source data, including satellite imagery, to deliver continuous worldwide situational awareness for a diverse range of challenges, including anomaly detection and prediction.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Perspecta Inc., announced that its applied research arm, Perspecta Labs, won the Autonomous Defensive Cyber Operations program from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Command (CCDC), Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center (C5ISR), Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Airbus has achieved an automatic air-to-air refueling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the year over the Atlantic Ocean, involved an Airbus tanker test aircraft equipped with the Airbus A3R solution, with an F-16 fighter aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force acting as a receiver.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Engineering firm MSBAI has received an AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract to examine integrating its GURU artificial intelligence (AI) technology to U.S. Air Force applications.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Mercury Systems, Inc., secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense company, announced it received a $4.7 million order from a leading defense prime contractor to provide artificial intelligence (AI) processing technology for integration into an advanced airborne electro-optic system.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced that the U.S. Marine Corps has ordered more than 140 of the company’s Centaur unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), plus spares. The $18.6 million contract is sourced through the Department of Defense Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II (MTRS Inc II) program.