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Pratt & Whitney Taps Hermeus to Produce F100 Jet Engine

The summer of love for the primes and the startups is taking on a new shape.  Yesterday, hypersonic aircraft startup Hermeus and RTX’s subsidiary and engine-making giant Pratt & Whitney announced a licensing deal that sets the stage for Hermeus to start producing Pratt’s F100 jet engine, which powers both Hermeus’ Quarterhorse supersonic unmanned aircraft […]

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Lockheed’s Vectis CCA, Set to Fly in 2027, Gets a Production Boost

If you thought Anduril and General Atomics were running away in the CCA race, think again. The biggest dawg in the defense world isn’t giving up that easily.  At the AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference yesterday, Lockheed Martin unveiled a full-scale model of its Vectis collaborative combat aircraft (CCA), along with two big announcements: […]

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Merlin and Textron Unveil SkyCourier UX

Look out, world. The old guard and the new kids on the block are teaming up (again). This morning, as AFA kicks off in National Harbor, flight autonomy startup Merlin announced that it’s teamed up with aviation giant Textron Aviation to build a version of the Cessna SkyCourier souped-up with Merlin’s Pilot autonomy stack called, […]

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Havoc Heads to Taiwan

Have any last-minute beach trips planned this summer? Havoc does, and it’s a long way from its home in Rhode Island. At a signing ceremony at the autonomy startup’s Providence headquarters yesterday, USV-turned-all-domain-autonomy company Havoc inked a deal with Taiwanese shipbuilding giant CSBC to integrate Havoc’s collaborative autonomy software with CSBC’s unmanned surface vessels in […]

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Anduril and Boeing Advance Interceptor for Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) 

Dare we say the primes and the neoprimes might be…making friends? Yesterday, everyone’s favorite defense tech company announced that it’s been selected (along with Boeing) to “advance to the next phase of competition for Integrated Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) Increment 2 Second Interceptor.” Anduril says the interceptor is powered by an SRM built out of […]

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Overland-led Team Scores $20M Contract for Autonomous Breaching

Look out, world. The robots really are coming. Yesterday, ground autonomy hotshot Overland AI announced that it scored a $20M contract under the US Army’s Engineer Autonomous Breaching Capability (EABC) initiative. Bishop said the capability is already in development and that they’ll “be progressively developing subsets of the capability throughout the fall,” leading up to […]