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F-16 Vs X-62A: USAF Runs 1st Ever Dogfight Pitting A Human Pilot Against AI

Recently, the US Air Force (USAF) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) conducted a simulated real air dogfight against a …

WATCH LIVE: House committee hearing with Defense Secretary Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Brown

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Air Force declares major cost breach for new helicopter program – Defense One

[The Office of the Secretary of Defense] will follow the Nunn-McCurdy process; however, the statute does allow the Department of Defense to handle …

Leaders of Air Force, Space Force Testify About 2025 Budget – Department of Defense

Testifying before the Subcommittee on Defense are: Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall III; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin; and …

Former Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Attempted Espionage – Department of Justice

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that John Murray Rowe, Jr., 65, of Lead, South Dakota, pleaded guilty in …

Austin says US urging other partners to provide Patriots to Ukraine – The Kyiv Independent

The U.S. continues to encourage other countries to provide Ukraine with Patriot air defense systems, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said …

DARPA Awards Additional $24.9 Million to Aurora Flight Sciences for SPRINT Program

The $24.9 million DARPA contract modification is for Phase 1B of the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies program.

The Air Force’s Combat Drone Saga Has Taken a Dramatic Turn – Popular Mechanics

Elements of that core are being developed in DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution program (focused on within-visual range air-to-air combat) and the Air …

How Field AI is Conquering Unstructured Autonomy – IEEE Spectrum

Ex- NASA, DARPA, and DeepMind researchers are teaching robots to go anywhere.

Boeing Company Expands to Make Parts for Stingrays, Red Hawks, Military Helicopters

Aurora previously announced that the facility in West Virginia would build the airframe for DARPA’s X-65 active flow control demonstrator aircraft.