The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a cost-plus-incentive-fee $36,000,000 modification (P00063) to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive (firm-target), cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N0001918C1012). Continue reading
Piasecki Gets $37M USAF Award for Next-Gen VTOLs and Hydrogen Propulsion Technologies
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation, a global supplier of rotorcraft and aerial vehicles, announced that it has been awarded a $37 million multi-year contract by AFWERX, the Air Force’s innovation arm in conjunction with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), as part of its Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) program. Continue reading
ParaZero Improves Defense Drone Safety with AI-Driven Avionics System
ParaZero Technologies Ltd., an aerospace company focused on drone safety systems for commercial drones and urban air mobility aircraft, recently unveiled a pioneering AI-driven avionics system, SmartAir Trinity, setting a new standard for drone safety within the defense sector. Continue reading
Iran Unveils Jet-Powered Kamikaze Drone
Iran showcased an advanced version of Shahed-136 strike drones, equipped with a jet engine and improved guidance systems, named Shahed-238. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was presented at the Ashura Aerospace University on November 20th. Continue reading
Towards More Efficient Electric Propulsion UAV Systems Using Boundary Layer Ingestion
Researchers at the Escuela Politecnica Nacional in Ecuador have just published a paper which examines a formulation for the sizing of ducted fans for BLI configurations with a distributed propulsion system, based on the NASA X-48B. Continue reading
AgEagle Teams with SEALSQ on Secure Surveillance Drones for Defense and Public Safety Applications
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc., a provider of full stack drone, sensors and software solutions for customers worldwide in the commercial and government verticals, and SEALSQ Corp, a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, announced their partnership to provide secure surveillance drones for public safety, government and defense applications. Continue reading
TEKEVER Gets $3.5M European Space Agency Contract
TEKEVER has signed a contract worth up to €3.2 million to provide satellite communications technology for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Comet Interceptor mission. The contract comes as TEKEVER opens a new site in Toulouse, France, dedicated to building the company’s capabilities in satellite communications and space technology. Continue reading
Iran Introduces Shahed-147 Surveillance Drone
Iran’s defense industry has introduced a new surveillance drone – the Shahed-147, a high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system. Continue reading