The Air Force released the first video of a new experimental drone in flight. General Atomics’ XQ-67A is intended to prepare the service for its future fleet of autonomous collaborative combat aircraft, and the company has called the drone a “CCA prototype."
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has assigned the designation XRQ-73 to its newest “X-plane,” an autonomous flying wing reconnaissance aircraft prototype with extra-quiet propulsion that is expected to fly this year, the agency announced June 24.
Airmen and Guardians now have their own free generative artificial intelligence chatbot that can interact in a "human-like" manner, helping them with communications, task completion, and online coding like ChatGPT—but on a secure system. The Air Force and Space Force launched the Non-classified Internet Protocol ...
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Today’s armament maintainers are tasked with performing flightline (O-Level) maintenance with an assortment of legacy test sets that greatly limit the ability to quickly and efficiently verify armament system readiness, diagnose failures, and ultimately return the aircraft to full mission...
The Air Force should quickly and comprehensively adopt digital methods to regain the speed of fielding new gear necessary to match the "blistering" pace of China's modernization, a new Mitchell Institute paper recommends.
The Space Force has handed out a contract for startup Starfish Space to build and launch a satellite that will dock with and maneuver U.S. government satellites in geosynchronous orbit, a "first-of-its-kind" effort in the service’s burgeoning move to embrace space mobility and logistics.
The Space Force is working on a “hybrid” satellite communications terminal that can use multiple frequencies to connect warfighters with military and commercial constellations alike across orbits. But key lawmakers are concerned the effort is too focused on just the Department of the Air Force and ...