The U.S. space and defense business arm of Airbus has opened a new office in Denver, Colorado, its third in the state. Airbus said Tuesday the new facility will support defense, space and technology initiatives while serving as a central hub for remote employees across western America.

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Technology industry veteran Burhan Muzaffar has joined Anduril Industries to serve as its vice president of vehicle autonomy and head of robotics, according to his LinkedIn post. Muzaffar brings to Anduril years of experience including time at Ball Aerospace as software engineer for modeling simulation analysis, United Launch Alliance as product leader for software, data […] More

Technology industry veteran Burhan Muzaffar has joined Anduril Industries to serve as its vice president of vehicle autonomy and head of robotics. Muzaffar brings to Anduril years of experience including time at Ball Aerospace as software engineer for modeling simulation analysis and at United Launch Alliance as product leader for software, data analysis and autonomous systems. More

Technology industry veteran Burhan Muzaffar has joined Anduril Industries to serve as its vice president of vehicle autonomy and head of robotics. Muzaffar brings to Anduril years of experience including time at Ball Aerospace as software engineer for modeling simulation analysis and at United Launch Alliance as product leader for software, data analysis and autonomous systems. More

Astronics has been contracted by Textron’s Bell subsidiary as part of the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program. Under the award, Astronics will refine the V-280 Valor weapon system’s electrical power and distribution system, which it provided for the demonstrator aircraft, the East Aurora, New York-based company announced on Tuesday. “We have enjoyed a close […] More

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson recently met with Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, to deliver his 2023 Wash100 Award. The Wash100 Award is an annual recognition that honors the most consequential executives in the expansive government contracting field. In its 10th anniversary run, the award once again […] More

Aurora Insight, a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies, has secured a follow-on contract from the National Reconnaissance Office to assess the potential application of commercial radio frequency remote sensing technologies for government purposes. Under the Stage II Strategic Commercial Enhancements contract, Aurora Insight will showcase how its commercial RF constellation could enhance capabilities to meet government […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected two teams to help in the first stage of development of a full-scale, wing-in-ground lifter seaplane demonstrator. DARPA said Wednesday the team of General Atomics and Maritime Applied Physics Corp. and the group consisting of Aurora Flight Sciences, Gibbs & Cox and ReconCraft will join the agency and the Department of […] More

Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has received a potential $42.2 million contract to perform work on the next phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control. Aurora will work on the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with […] More

Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has secured another contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue supporting a program meant to maintain America’s lead in artificial intelligence. The new contract will cover the development of scalable techniques for adding uncertainty from sensors and environments into machine learning system outputs in support of the […] More

Boeing has conducted a virtual demonstration of a new open autonomy architecture designed to enable manned-unmanned teaming capabilities for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 aerial refueling system. During the digital flight test, three different simulated naval aircraft tasked four virtual, autonomous MQ-25s to conduct tanking and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions without communicating with the ship-based […] More

Natilus has secured $6 billion in advance commitments to deliver over 440 autonomous cargo aircraft to major airlines and integrators. The purchase commitments for Natilus’ unmanned aerial vehicles were from Volatus Aerospace, Flexport, Dymond, Astral Aviation and Aurora International, Natilus said Wednesday. “In parallel with the development of our family of autonomous aircraft, we are […] More