Firefly Aerospace reported record second-quarter 2026 revenue of $117.7 million, up 45.5% sequentially and beating estimates by 34%, while maintaining full-year guidance of $420 million to $450 millio…
Proteus Space, an AI-native aerospace company, named retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Kimberly 'Kim' Crider to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Crider, the first Chief Technology and Inn…
George Sivulka, the 27-year-old Stanford grad who founded AI enterprise startup Hebbia, argues that companies raced to deploy AI workforces without building management infrastructure, warning that 'yo…
DARPA and the U.S. Air Force flew an AI-controlled F-16 on July 16 as part of the VENOM program, using a retrofit kit that interfaces with the jet's flight controls without modifying its core software…
The U.S. Air Force and DARPA have flown an AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet under the Viper Experimentation and Next-generation Operations Model (VENOM) program, marking a milestone in autonomous combat…
Boeing, General Atomics, and Anduril Industries are competing to develop AI-powered fighter drones, with Boeing's Ghost Bat having completed over 100 test flights. The U.S. Air Force plans to select a…
Boeing rolled out its flight-ready Ghost Bat combat drone at the Farnborough Airshow, while General Atomics and Anduril Industries unveiled full-scale models of their own AI-powered autonomous aircraf…
The Air Force's VENOM program has flown an F-16 with AI at the controls, with six modified F-16s at Eglin Air Force Base now flying with autonomy software layered atop unchanged core avionics, accordi…
Goldman Sachs led a $100 million Series D round for Spectro Cloud, a Santa Clara startup whose PaletteAI software manages GPU clusters across different chip vendors and clouds, bringing total funding …
Helsing, a German defense AI startup, raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Iconiq, while the U.S. Air Force spends …
Firefly Aerospace will launch an NVIDIA Jetson AI computing platform into lunar orbit on its Blue Ghost Mission 2, enabling autonomous AI processing on the Moon without relying on Earth commands. The …
A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert on Monday, killing all eight people aboard, including two Boeing employees. The aircraft was support…
A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff Monday at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California, with emergency crews responding and no immediate word on casualties. The airfield was closed and vi…
In August 1955, the United States traded Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen, a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and key figure in U.S. airpower doctrine, for eleven American airmen imprisoned in…