India, US Sign Air-Launched UAV Co-Development Project Agreement

Brig. Gen. Brian Bruckbauer hosts an office call in honor of his fellow cochair of the US-India Defense Technology and Trade Initiative Air Vice Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari in the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., July 16, 2021. 

Air Vice Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari, Indian Air Force, Assistant Chief of Air Staff for Plans, and Brig. Gen. Brian R. Bruckbauer, Director of the Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation (AFSAC) Directorate for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, signed a landmark agreement recently to co-develop air-launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Continue reading →

Joby and NASA Collaborate to Measure Noise Footprints

Joby’s full-scale, all-electric prototype preparing for flight above the company’s Electric Flight Base in California

Joby’s electric air taxi, which has recently swept the market through multiple large fundraising rounds, a successful IPO, and an acquisition of Uber Elevate amongst others, has now announced that they have become the first company to fly an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft as part of NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign. Continue reading →

GA-ASI Demonstrates Airborne MUM-T with MQ-20 Avenger

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) continues to advance new levels of autonomous control for unmanned aircraft, successfully completing an airborne Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) demonstration on Aug. 25, 2021 pairing a company-owned MQ-20 Avenger with a modified King Air 200 as a surrogate for 4th– and 5th-generation tactical fighters. Continue reading →