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The US Air Force awarded a $13 billion contract to replace its aging "doomsday planes" with a next-generation airborne command center.

QinetiQ's aerial target drone, the Banshee, was modified to be controlled by a piloted aircraft.

British defence supplier QinetiQ has successfully demonstrated the UK's first crewed-uncrewed teaming force between a jet and a swarm of UAS.

QinetiQ’s technology provides an airborne gateway which can receive and translate both long range and short range communications between drones. 

QinetiQ has for the first time in the UK demonstrated manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) between jet aircraft. An artist's impression of a demonstration announced on 25 April, in which QinetiQ for the first time in the UK demonstrated MUM-T bet...

Airbus Helicopters has flown its Rapid and Cost-Efficient Rotorcraft (RACER) concept for the first time, the company announced on 25 April. The RACER high-speed helicopter departed Marignane on its maiden flight on 25 April. The milestone to...

Photo: Ryan Garza ~ USA TODAY NETWORK DETROIT, March 13, 2024 ~ 760 WJR host and Detroit Free Press columnist, Mitch Albom, along with nine others, was successfully rescued from the Have Faith Haiti Orphanage in Haiti after being stranded there due to escalating violence and lawlessness. The eva

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. — The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) — part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (GRFCSG) — returned to homeport in Norfolk

Program office decision makers, engineers, logisticians and other stakeholders now have an improved and comprehensive information technology solution that supports quicker and deeper analyses of weapon systems’ long-term sustainment health and interdependent processes. Called the Sustainment Program Baseline (SPB) Dashboard, it tracks a weapon system’s sustainment phase performance against an established baseline.

The returning squadrons supported the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group while on deployment.