The U.S. Army has awarded the aeronautical business of advanced technology provider General Atomics a $94.8 million contract to support work on the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Smart Sensor program. The Department of Defense said Wednesday that, under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will conduct research, development, test and evaluation […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems division demonstrated the short-takeoff and landing capabilities of its Mojave unmanned aircraft system during a series of flight tests on a dirt strip in California. Mojave conducted take-offs in as little as 586 feet and performed short landings on unimproved surfaces in as little as 335 feet, GA-ASI said Thursday. The […] More

Autonomous aircraft manufactured by General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems division has recorded over eight million flight hours after completing multiple missions in nearly 40 countries worldwide. GA-ASI said Friday its fleet of MQ-9B SkyGuardian/SeaGuardian remotely piloted aircraft has flown more than 4,000 flight hours supporting various U.S. Navy exercises and operations of the Japanese coast guard […] More

CesiumAstro, a developer of active phased array communications payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms, has secured funding from the U.S. Air Force to install a satellite communications terminal onto a General Atomics-built MQ-9A remotely piloted aircraft. The company will use the fund to build a size, weight and power-optimized satcom terminal to demonstrate airborne connectivity […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has secured a contract to build and flight test an unmanned aerial system that is being eyed as an off-board sensing station for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. GA-ASI will employ its Gambit Series collaborative combat aircraft to validate the OBSS concept developed by AFRL under the low-cost attritable […] 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

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems completed three live, virtual, and constructive combat missions using artificially intelligent pilots on its Avenger unmanned aircraft system. General Atomics said Wednesday the flights mark a new milestone in GA-ASI’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft ecosystem for Autonomous Collaborative Platform UAS. The Avenger was paired with a “digital twin” aircraft operated virtually using […] More

Rocket Lab has secured a contract with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide solar panels that will power small, autonomous robots programmed to work as a team to explore and collect data on lunar and planetary surfaces. For the effort, the contractor said Friday it will use the inverted metamorphic multi-junction solar cells that its recently […] More

Global Air Logistics and Training, Northrop Grumman and L3 Harris Technologies will help the U.S. Navy develop a network pod to expand the mission capabilities of the U.S. Marine Corps’ MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle. Work on the first phase of the Reaper Airborne Network Extension Skytower II program will be under an $8.4 million […] More

Parry Labs Chief Growth Officer Chris Pehrson recently participated in a Q&A session to discuss the defense technology company’s corporate culture, growth driver and computing technology for military customers. Pehrson was appointed to the CGO position at Parry Labs after spending more than 11 years at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. “In my new role, I’m […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business demonstrated its MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft during a military free-fall high-altitude training exercise of the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) held in January. The company said Thursday the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle conducted remote monitoring of the exercise, tracked the jumps and offered critical overwatch capabilities for the […] More

Monique Brown, a former director at Lockheed Martin, has joined Voyager Space as director of business development for national security programs. The Denver, Colorado-based space exploration company said Monday Brown will work to identify growth opportunities and expand Voyager’s clientele in the national security space sector. In her previous role as director of strategy and business […] More