The innovation arms of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force have announced the cohorts of small businesses that secured Strategic Funding Increase contracts for program year 2024 to help transition their defense technologies from the development phase to full production. The 2024 STRATFI initiative accounts for $193 million in Small Business Innovatio...
In light of recent advancements in autonomous technologies, the Department of Defense has made tremendous efforts to understand the role of these tools in warfighting operations and fully harness the benefits autonomy can provide. When implementing these technologies, cultivating a relationship between human operators and new technology is cruc...
In today’s era of rapid space democratization, the biggest challenge the United States faces is being able to leverage industry partnerships at a quick enough rate to outpace its strategic competitors, according to federal space leaders. Historically, the U.S. has enjoyed a healthy lead over other countries in space; in the Apollo era, the country...
Boom has received a $60 million Strategic Funding Increase contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue research and development of a supersonic aircraft platform. The additional funds will support work on the Overture airliner envisioned to carry 65 to 88 passengers, travel at twice the speed of current commercial planes and use sustainable aviatio...
Will Roper, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, has joined the board of advisers of air combat training technology developer Red 6 to share his expertise in support of the company’s Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System. “His in-depth knowledge of ...
Shift5 has secured a contract award with the Air Force Cyber Resiliency of Weapon Systems (CROWS) office to deliver innovative solutions that advance capability to the warfighter, the company reported on Friday. Under the Phase III award, Shift5 will advance the company's disruptive cybersecurity technology to support the Air Force. ...
The U.S. Air Force has tentatively selected over 500 companies for contracts worth $550M combined as part of an initiative launched with its AFWERX innovation arm and Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program....
