WORLD: Technology

Sept. 12, 2025
Long-Range Drones Target Battlefield Delivery By Greg Hadley A new startup has a contract with the Air Force’s innovation arm and a prototype to test its new concept: a network of “flying pickup truck” drones to solve the problem of...

WORLD: Space

July 25, 2025
Commerce Cuts Space Traffic Management Program  By Shaun Waterman  The first Trump administration moved to relieve the Space Force of its burden to monitor and warn civilian space operators about potential space traffic hazards. But now, just as the Commerce...
In an exercise focused on Agile Combat Employment earlier this year, the Air Force got a taste of technology that could prove pivotal to the concept—autonomous software and hardware that can let conventional aircraft taxi, take off, fly, and land without a pilot at the ...