General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

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

The award resembles a similar, $93.3 million contract announced by GA-ASI four years ago to demonstrate object recognition algorithms on the sensors on board an MQ-9.

Collaborative Combat Aircraft and Survivable Airborne Operations Center selections favor private companies as major primes set sights on larger awards.

France's General Directorate for Armaments, DGA, has placed the first orders for long-lead items for the country’s future aircraft carrier.

The Mojave started with the U.S. Marine Corps as a short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) UAS.

The U.S. Air Force announced April 24 that it selected General Atomics and Anduril to continue designs for the first phase of its CCA program.

Strafing ground targets is normally a capability exercised by human pilots, but now a large U.S.-made uncrewed aircraft system has demonstrated the capability.

The Air Force will receive a classified directed energy system last among the three armed services participating in the High Energy Laser Scaling Initiative.

About three years before its first scheduled fielding, the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft fleet has a new group of F-16-based testbed aircraft.

A new Royal Air Force strategy lays out plans for the introduction of larger systems after having developed small, swarming platforms.

Future battlefields with dispersed units and contested logistics are driving DARPA’s new portfolio of disruptive investments.

Its plan differs from some prior programs, such as the venerable MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper.

Facing a reduction to its expected budget next year, the military cuts back on near-term aircraft procurement.

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

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced Feb. 29 that its XA-67A Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) flew for the first time the day before.

Collaboration defines the operational role of a new class of autonomous combat systems as well a new model for foreign industry partners.

The service will select two companies to begin building CCAs, though with a cost-sharing agreement to bring along a third.

A promotional video released a few days before the Air Warfare Symposium shows off the XQ-67 Off-board Sensing Station (OBSS) in motion for the first time.

The service, blocked from starting new acquisition programs, used a long-standing autonomy demonstration effort to begin CCA work.

The Aurora Flight Sciences team is competing with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) during phase 1B of the Liberty Lifter program.

Danish lawmakers have agreed on a plan to purchase long-range UAS to patrol the Arctic and North Atlantic.

With orders for Edge’s Reach-S UAS, the United Arab Emirates has joined the growing list of nations capable of developing armed drones.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. will get a chance next year to prove the Predator is worthy of a long-term contract from the U.S. Navy.

The Nov. 15 test served two purposes—as a carrier-proving flight for the Mojave and as a demonstration of the largest crewless aircraft on a Royal Navy ship.

Divergent Technologies, an advanced manufacturing startup, has closed a $230 million Series D fundraising round.