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Commercial Aerospace

Astroport
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The companies said prepared surfaces could help mitigate plume surface interaction caused by spacecraft landings and departures, a key concern for sustained lunar operations.
Feb. 4, 2026
GE Aerospace
Research from NASA and GE Aerospace led to the successful testing of a jet engine at the company’s test site in Ohio. The hybrid engine is a modified version of a GE Aerospace Passport. GE Aerospace photo.
The tests advanced understanding of system-level integration and control of a hybrid electric turbofan, rather than focusing solely on individual components.
Feb. 4, 2026
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North America at night shot from space.
NASA said the effort is intended to enable more effective use of agency resources and to advance the commercial remote sensing industry.
Feb. 3, 2026
BETA Technologies
The BETA ALIA electric aircraft operated by Bristow flies over western Norway during the country’s first national electric aviation test project.
Key priorities include developing more robust charging infrastructure, adapting airport systems for winter operations, and expanding specialized training for emergency services...
Feb. 3, 2026

Learning Resources

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Feb. 2, 2026
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Jan. 30, 2026
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Jan. 28, 2026
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Jan. 27, 2026

Computers

A Republic of Korea Air Force F-15K Slam Eagle aircraft with the 11th Fighter Wing takes off from Gwangju Air Base, South Korea during exercise Freedom Flag 25-1 last April.
Boeing upgrades will involve improvements to the F-15K's radar, electronic warfare (EW), mission computers, warning devices, and cockpits systems.
Feb. 4, 2026
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The DARPA Bordeaux program involves technologies in cyber security, artificial intelligence (AI) models, and AI hardware.
The top-secret program's main goal involves developing integrated solutions across cyber security and AI for national security applications.
Feb. 4, 2026
The Magma Aviation Cargo Management System (CMS) can streamline air cargo operations by centralizing commercial, financial, and operational data into one connected system.
Cargo management tool gives all teams access to consistent information, with future updates to add artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
Feb. 4, 2026
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The DARPA Fast and Curious program seeks to develop next-generation computing technology using logic devices with the same performance as complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors, but with 100 to 1,000 times greater energy efficiency.
Fast and Curious explores device physics, materials, and architectures that enable energy-efficient and scalable logic circuits that can surpass CMOS.
Feb. 3, 2026

Uncrewed

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U.S. Space Force is looking for companies able to help enhance U.S. spaceports to accommodate growing numbers of military space missions.
The Spaceport Development Program will be a contract vehicle also to provide spaceport-related launch services like launch site modifications.
Feb. 3, 2026
The AeroVironment Visual Navigation System (VNS) kit enables the Puma long-endurance small uncrewed aircraft to navigate without the use of satellites.
Downward-facing cameras and onboard computing enable the VNS kit to perform visual inertial odometry to estimate aircraft position in real time.
Feb. 3, 2026
The Space Development Agency is looking for mature optical communications terminals for aircraft to enable secure, high-bandwidth space-to-air optical communications to link aircraft with the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) satellite constellations.
Optical communications must be able to support space-to-air optical links for testing with SDA low-Earth-orbit satellites in less than 12 months.
Feb. 2, 2026
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The open test section with sound-absorbing walls and model fuselage cladding enables high-quality acoustic measurements. Credit: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Wind tunnel tests demonstrated noise reductions of up to seven decibels during landing descent, equal to more than half of perceived noise, while vibrations were reduced by more...
Jan. 30, 2026

Power

A Mk 46 recoverable exercise torpedo launches from a Mk 32 MOD 19 surface vessel torpedo tube through a torpedo firing door of the port torpedo magazine aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67).
The MK3 expendable acoustic torpedo decoy for submarines emits underwater signals that spoofs incoming torpedoes into missing the submarine.
Jan. 30, 2026
The Green Hills-Curtiss-Wright open-systems multicore embedded computing is for safety-critical and airworthiness-certified avionics.
In addition to running several workloads in parallel, INTEGRITY-178 tuMP enables a multi-threaded safety-critical workload to execute across several cores.
Jan. 30, 2026
U.S. Marines fire a TOW missile from a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle during a range on the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., in 2023.
TOW 2A, TOW 2B, TOW 2B aero, and TOW bunker-buster missiles are a primary precision anti-armor, anti-fortification, and anti-amphibious landing weapons.
Jan. 29, 2026
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U.S. military researchers are trying to break-free of rigid materials in packaging of high-performance energy-storage systems.
This program seeks to improve energy storage free of rigid materials that can exhibit thermal and safety performance for practical systems integration.
Jan. 28, 2026

Communications

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An air traffic control tower as seen from an airport terminal.
The FAA is seeking innovations including realistic virtual pilots using speech recognition and synthetic voice response, automated student performance evaluation, networked digital...
Feb. 2, 2026
Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft fly in formation on the way to perform at the Air and Sea Air Show in Miami in May 2024.
Matrix Research will explore the next generation of combat identification software algorithms to improve today's combat identification performance.
Feb. 2, 2026
Skynopy
Pierre Bertrand (left), CEO and Co-Founder of Skynopy, and Éric Even (right), Senior Vice President, Head of Space Digital, Airbus. Photo credit: Skynopy.
Pléiades Neo satellites deliver native 30-centimeter-resolution optical imagery and are designed for high reactivity, supporting applications such as defense, security, disaster...
Feb. 2, 2026
The StarTech.com KVM Secure Switch products are for military cyber security and trusted computing network applications.
National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) can equip organizations with the hardware necessary to meet compliance.
Feb. 2, 2026