Science&Tech

General Atomics’ new air combat drone has flown, another step toward what the Air Force is calling the “first of a second generation” of autonomous aircraft. The drone, called the XQ-67A, is derived from GA-ASI’s Gambit series of…

The real breakthrough in quantum computing is always ten years away, or so goes the old saw. But even though disagreement persists about how to measure the performance of one quantum computer over another, and even how to code for machines…

China launched a record 67 commercial rockets last year, second only to the United States’ 116—the vast majority for SpaceX’s Starlink. But Elon Musk isn’t the only one building a space-based network for communications, navigation, and…

U.S. intelligence officials believe Russia wants to put a nuclear weapon in space, according to multiple reports that emerged Wednesday after the chair of the House Intelligence Committee publicly urged the White House to declassify…

The U.S. Air Force still needs to figure out the “right tradeoffs” to balance cost and capability for its future family of drones, a prominent airpower think tank says after testing how a mix of unmanned and manned aircraft would fare in a…

China’s cyber activity is moving beyond the last decade’s spying and data theft toward direct attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, the directors of the FBA, NSA, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, told…

The long-envisioned idea of using directed energy for air defense may have just crossed an important threshold. In a three-week series of tests run with the Air Force Research Lab, the experimental CHIMERA microwave managed to track…

The first U.S. Space Force guardian will be launched into space this summer. “There is a guardian going into space via NASA in August,” Jerry Porter, chief of public affairs at Space Launch Delta 45, told reporters during the Space…

Defense program managers and other lower-level leaders must make innovation a bigger priority, according to a new report from a top Pentagon advisory group that also says the department is getting in its own way in acquiring dual-use…

The Air Force will not abandon its program to build the next intercontinental ballistic missile, despite the massive cost overrun it reported to Congress last week, officials said.“Sentinel will be funded. We’ll make the trades that it…