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The Navy awarded a $562 million fixed-price incentive contract to Boeing on Monday to kick off Lot 1 Low Rate Initial Production of the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker, the service announced.Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao teed up the LRIP and deployment announcement in May during a Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing. Boeing’s MQ-25A will become the Defense Department’s first unmanned tanker and the Navy’s first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft.The UAV is designed to extend the life of the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornets and relieve the fighter jets of their aerial refueling role so the aircraft can focus on…

Key PointsLockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is building four additional Vectis combat drones, bringing the program’s total to five aircraft.The tailless, stealth-focused drone is designed to fly alongside crewed fighters like the F-35, with a first flight targeted by the end of 2027.Lockheed Martin is building four more of its newest combat drones, the company announced September 14, doubling down on a program that’s still more than a year away from ever leaving the ground. The news came from the company’s secretive Skunk Works division, following a major Air Force conference near Washington, D.C., where Skunk Works also unveiled a full-scale model…

The Supreme Court is keeping the Trump administration from imposing new rules for mail-in ballots in the lead-up to the midterm elections this November. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March imposing new rules on mail-in voting. The Postal Service released a final rule in August to implement the executive order. The court’s tersely worded and unsigned order issued Monday evening states that the government “is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge” to a lower court’s preliminary injunction that barred USPS from taking further steps to carry out its final rule. The final rule would have required state planning to send…

Making its world premiere at MSPO 2026 in Kielce, Poland, the AB-U2, an AI-guided kinetic hard-kill interceptor developed by South Korean company Airbility Inc., is designed to address an increasingly central challenge for armed forces and critical-infrastructure operators: neutralising unmanned aerial vehicles in environments where satellite-navigation signals are jammed, spoofed or simply unavailable A response to drones without GPS GNSS disruption – affecting GPS, Galileo, GLONASS or BeiDou – is now an operational reality in modern theatres. Yet depriving a hostile drone of a satellite-navigation signal does not necessarily stop it. More advanced platforms may continue their mission using an…

Galvion’s Cortex EVO™ HALO integration concept on the hi-cut Batlskin® Cobra Plus helmet, to be displayed at DVD 2026.Galvion, a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative head systems, power and data management solutions, and integrated soldier systems, will showcase a new Cortex™ EVO HALO integration concept for the UK’s in-service VIRTUS helmet at Defence Vehicle Dynamics (DVD) 2026 (Booth C3-D22).The integration concept illustrates how Cortex EVO HALO could provide a pathway to extend and evolve the UK’s existing VIRTUS helmet fleet, introducing advanced power, data and headborne capabilities while building on the proven protective platform already in…

Story September 14, 2026 U.S. Air Force photo by C Arce As software-defined architectures continue reshaping industries from defense and aerospace to communications and advanced research, the future of testing will be defined not by owning more instruments but by giving engineers the ability to create exactly the instrument their application requires, precisely when they need it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming engineering in countless ways, from software development to chip design. Yet one of the most significant opportunities may lie in an area that receives far less attention: the tools engineers rely on to test, validate, and refine their…

CAE is presenting its Gravity solution at MSPO 2026 in Kielce, placing data-driven, multi-domain synthetic training at the centre of its engagement with Polish and international defence stakeholders. The exhibit reflects a growing requirement for armed forces to prepare personnel and validate concepts across increasingly complex air, land, maritime, space and cyber environments, while reducing the cost, time and operational burden associated with live training Note for publication: the publicly available CAE material reviewed for this article does not provide a standalone official technical datasheet identifying “Gravity” as a discrete product. The text below therefore positions Gravity within CAE’s publicly…

Bottom lines up front WASHINGTON—Discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) have exploded in recent days as several industry leaders and researchers have warned of the need to “pace the frontier” of AI development. Some have cited “loss of control”—the likelihood of catastrophic risks to humanity due to AI going rogue—as the motivating factor in their speaking out now. The stakes extend well beyond AI safety. Both Washington and Beijing frame AI as central to economic competitiveness and national power. US President Donald Trump, for example, has said that “there’s only going to be one winner here, and that’s probably going to be the U.S. or China. And right…

Scott Coker is officially back in MMA with a new promotion launching in 2027.On Tuesday, the veteran promoter behind Strikeforce and Bellator MMA announced plans for his new organization — Ki MMA (pronounced Key MMA) — with plans to officially launch early next year. He’ll be joined on the new venture by veteran matchmaker Rich Chou, who previously worked with Coker at Strikeforce and Bellator.As part of Ki MMA, the first major announcement was plans for a Grand Prix tournament featuring 32 fighters from across the globe with events expected to take place on four different continents.The plan is for…