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28 September

USAF Awards $85 Million Contract for Bomb Disposal Robot

The US Air Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies an $85-million contract to procure 170 bomb disposal robots for airbase protection.

22 September

Inder Singh Bisht

Pentagon Issues ‘Subterranean Robot Challenge’

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off the Subterranean Challenge final this week, with participants deploying autonomous systems to navigate underground obstacles.

21 September

Inder Singh Bisht

Pentagon Awards Supercomputer Contracts Totaling $68 million

The Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded $68 million in contracts to California-based Penguin Computing for two high-performance supercomputers.

15 September

Inder Singh Bisht

Pentagon Awards $30.5M Contract for Italian AF UAV Upgrade

The Department of Defense has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. a $30.5 million contract to upgrade the Italian Air Force’s MQ-9A Predator B combat drones.

9 September

Inder Singh Bisht

Pentagon Test-Fires Anti-Ship Missile From Unmanned Vessel

The US Department of Defense announced a missile launch from the unmanned surface vessel Ranger in a milestone test.

9 September

Inder Singh Bisht

US Army Demonstrates Stryker-Mounted Laser-Weapon System

The US Army completed the “combat shoot-off” (CSO) of its first high-energy laser weapon prototype, manufacturer KBR revealed.

9 September

Joint US-Turkey air patrol over northeast Syria

Hercules Reyes

Boeing Delivers Proposal for Potential Black Hawk Successor DEFIANT X

Sikorsky-Boeing delivered the proposal to the US Army for the DEFIANT X project, which will be part of the army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program.

8 September