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The acquisition is being driven by the U.S. Defense Department Joint All-Domain Command and Control (known as JADC2) strategy.

Petro could fill the role until Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, billionaire Jarad Isaacman, achieves U.S. Senate confirmation.

Skyryse has a partnership with Ace Aeronautics, a reseller of former military Black Hawks, to equip the helicopters with the SkyOS automated flight system.

Hegseth, a former Army National Guard officer turned Fox News host, has turned into one of the more controversial nominations by Trump ahead of next week’s inauguration.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Two sizes are being sought for the HADES program’s launched effects.

Sierra Nevada Corp. can move forward on the U.S. Army ’ s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System contract.

The Army plans to stage an operational demonstration of the technology in fiscal 2028.

Govini estimates that more than 20,000 individual parts used by the Pentagon are impacted by the export controls, affecting more than 1,000 weapons systems.

The aircraft achieved a 24-hr. flight from New Mexico’s Spaceport America in October.

Ursa Major in partnership with missile developer Raytheon has completed two flight tests of a newly developed long-range solid rocket motor.

The FBI has received more than 5,000 reported drone sightings over the past few weeks, with about 100 leads generated.

The U.S. Army and Navy have conducted a successful, end-to-end test of the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon as they look to field similar versions of the system.

Two ground-launched ballistic missiles have struck a simulated enemy target with the predicted trajectory.

The increasing number of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) being spotted near U.S. military installations rep[ortedly pose no threat.

The U.S. Marine Corps has selected Sikorsky to demonstrate its flight-autonomy system onboard an optionally piloted UH-60 Black Hawk.

The Davidson Window looms on the horizon as the U.S. seeks to deepen its stocks of weapons. Will that mean war between the U.S. and China?

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

President-elect Donald Trump’s push to select relative outsiders for top Pentagon positions continues with his selection of Daniel Driscoll to lead the Army as its top civilian.

The future high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fleet’s first delivery and flight highlight progress made despite the stop-work order.

Smaller and lighter radars are becoming upgrade options for the Army’s weight-sensitive rotorcraft.

IFPC Inc. 2 is designed to protect fixed and semi-fixed sites from uncrewed aircraft systems, cruise missiles and rockets.

Bombardier Defense has delivered the first converted Global 6500 business jet, a prototype, to the U.S. Army in support of its HADES program.

Red Cat Holdings has won a contract to deliver thousands of small quadcopters for the U.S. Army’s Tranche 2 of the Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program.

The Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to issue requests for information (RFI) in January for its Tranche 3 satellites.