Echodyne and Univ. of Washington assist DARPA with aerial drone surveillance test When the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency tested an “Aerial Dragnet” system for tracking drones over urban terrain last… Read More
Amazon cites Fox News segment, Trump rally in formal protest of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI award Amazon filed its formal protest over Microsoft’s victory in a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract, citing video evidence that… Read More
GAO sides with Blue Origin in dispute over Air Force’s multibillion-dollar launch contract process The Government Accountability Office is agreeing with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture that the Air Force needs… Read More
Amazon challenges Pentagon’s award of $10B JEDI cloud contract to rival Microsoft Amazon is protesting the Defense Department’s surprise decision to award a lucrative cloud contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense… Read More
Satya Nadella: Staying out of politics, focusing on tech, helped Microsoft win Pentagon cloud contract Microsoft’s surprise victory last week in a protracted competition to build the Pentagon’s war cloud has some critics asking whether… Read More
What is JEDI? Explaining the $10B military cloud contract that Microsoft just won over Amazon Questions about the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract have been swirling since news broke late Friday that Microsoft… Read More
Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane lands after spending 780 days in orbit The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane landed today after spending a record-setting 780 days in orbit testing hush-hush technologies… Read More
Boeing’s MQ-25 military refueling drone aces its first test flight at St. Louis airport Boeing’s MQ-25 Stingray drone successfully completed its first test flight today, marking a big step toward providing the Navy with… Read More
Trump ushers in U.S. Space Command, with Space Force (or Corps) in the works President Donald Trump today hailed the revival of the U.S. Space Command to protect America’s technological assets on the final… Read More
Blue Origin protests launch contract rules as it competes with SpaceX, ULA, Northrop Grumman Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is protesting the rules of the game for awarding future national security… Read More
Aviation geeks will be seeing some new twists when the Blue Angels soar at Seafair The sights and sounds of the Blue Angels flying their aerobatic fighter jets through August skies are a Seattle tradition… Read More
Government officials are reaching out to commercial ventures for space race revival RENTON, Wash. — Fifty years after the landmark Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the climax of the U.S.-Soviet space… Read More
Former Boeing exec is out as acting Pentagon chief after domestic dispute report from 2010 surfaces President Donald Trump announced in a tweet that former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan is leaving his post as acting defense… Read More
Blue Origin, ULA and Northrop Grumman weigh in on multibillion-dollar SpaceX rocket lawsuit Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and subsidiaries of United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman are intervening in… Read More
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches 3 U.S. military satellites from New Zealand Rocket Lab sent a trio of research satellites for the U.S. military into orbit tonight from a launch pad that’s… Read More
Pentagon ethics probe clears acting defense chief after claims of Boeing bias The Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General says acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is in full compliance with his… Read More
The three finalists in the DARPA Launch Challenge include a mystery competitor Three teams have qualified to go into the rocket-launching phase of the DARPA Launch Challenge: Vector Launch, Virgin Orbit’s VOX Space… Read More
Acting Pentagon chief is facing an ethics investigation over charges of Boeing bias Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who was a veteran Boeing executive before going to the Pentagon, is facing an ethics… Read More
Boeing unveils a new breed of ‘wingman’ drones that fly with piloted military jets Boeing is unveiling a new type of uncrewed aircraft that’s designed to fly military missions alongside piloted airplanes, known as… Read More
Lost in 1943, the USS Strong is found again by Paul Allen’s Petrel research vessel The USS Strong put in less than a year of service at sea, but the destroyer and its crew nevertheless… Read More
President Trump signs directive to create new Space Force under the Air Force’s wing WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that lays out further steps in the creation of… Read More
Geek of the Week: Air Force and Blue Origin vet Katherine Pratt aims high as a PhD candidate with an eye on data privacy Katherine Pratt has a degree from MIT, she interned at Blue Origin, worked on fighter jets in the Air Force,… Read More
Paul Allen’s deepest legacy: Expedition surveys wreck of Japanese battleship Hiei A wide-ranging shipwreck survey funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is continuing after his death, and the latest discovery focuses… Read More
Surprise! Boeing hands Air Force the keys to not just one, but two KC-46 tanker jets Boeing executives today added an extra twist to what was expected to be a cut-and-dried ceremony to hand over its… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Wrong Number: How to tell fact from fiction in a world full of bogus data Play Here’s a pop quiz: Which of these public statements contained incorrect or misleading numbers? “Add that to Marco’s plan for… Read More
After years of delay, Air Force accepts first Boeing KC-46 tanker; delivery coming soon After struggling through years of delay and absorbing billions of dollars of cost overruns, Boeing says the U.S. Air Force… Read More
U.S. Strategic Command ‘joke’ about dropping something on New Year’s Eve bombs on Twitter U.S. Strategic Command, the unified military force responsible for launching nuclear strikes, apologized Monday for a tweet in which it… Read More
Former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan will take over Pentagon after his boss quits President Donald Trump says Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, will take charge of the Pentagon on… Read More
After four delays, SpaceX launches Air Force’s first next-gen GPS III satellite SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent a next-generation GPS satellite into orbit today for the U.S. Air Force, marking a couple… Read More
SpaceX wins $28.7M contract from Air Force for data connectivity research SpaceX has won a $28.7 million fixed-price contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for experiments in data connectivity involving… Read More
