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5 days ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
Summary points:Commercial Lunar Imaging Launch: Firefly Aerospace will begin offering commercial lunar imaging through its Ocula service in 2026, using Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory telescopes onboard its Elytra vehicles. Multi-Mission Utility: Ocula's data will support space exploration, landing site planning, and national security ISR. The first mission will follow Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 2, with a second deployment planned for 2028.
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1 week ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
Summary points:Fleetwide Activation: Southwest Airlines is outfitting its entire Boeing 737 fleet—over 700 aircraft—with Honeywell’s SmartRunway and SmartLanding software, enhancing runway safety via real-time alerts during taxi, takeoff, and landing. Improved Pilot Situational Awareness: The software, enabled by Honeywell’s EGPWS, provides aural and visual alerts to help pilots avoid excessive speed, incorrect runway alignment, or unstable approaches, aiming to reduce runway incidents.
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1 week ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
Summary points:Full-Fleet Ka-Band Connectivity: Greenerwave and Safran Passenger Innovations are jointly developing a compact, energy-efficient Ka-band SATCOM terminal compatible with all current and future NGSO constellations, aiming to reduce costs and improve in-flight connectivity performance.
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1 week ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
Summary points:Integrated Electro-Optical and Directed Energy Systems: Modern electro-optical sensors are now part of complex, multi-domain systems that combine RF, embedded computing, and artificial intelligence to support rapid decision-making and real-time threat engagement. Technologies like the U.S. Army’s DE M-SHORAD and the Navy’s Layered Laser Defense (LLD) integrate high-energy lasers with advanced sensing for precision strikes and enhanced situational awareness.
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1 week ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
Summary points:Velo3D and Vaya Space have signed a $4 million, two-year agreement to produce high-performance rocket engine components using advanced metal additive manufacturing technologies. Velo3D will serve as the exclusive provider of GRCop42 components for Vaya Space through 2027, supplying parts made with copper alloy GRCop42 and Inconel 718 via its Sapphire XC and XC1MZ 3D printers.
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2 weeks ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - XTI Aerospace, Inc., in Englewood, Colo., announced developments in the design of its TriFan 600 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, completing more than 1,500 complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer.
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2 weeks ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
WASHINGTON - President Donald J. Trump has signed a sweeping Executive Order to strengthen America's leadership in uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), directing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other agencies to expand drone operations, support domestic manufacturing, and accelerate advanced air mobility initiatives. The order instructs the FAA to enable routine "Beyond Visual Line of Sight" (BVLOS) drone operations for commercial and public safety missions.
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2 weeks ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
GREENBELT, Md. - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are inviting feedback from industry ahead of a formal solicitation for the development of a new space weather sensor. The X-Ray Irradiance Sensor (XRIS) will fly aboard the second Space weather Observations at Lagrange 1 (SOL) observatory, part of a joint mission to improve solar monitoring capabilities crucial to national infrastructure protection.
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2 weeks ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Wisk Aero, a Boeing-owned developer of autonomous electric air taxis, has acquired SkyGrid, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) third-party service provider, as a subsidiary. The move aligns the two companies in their efforts to integrate autonomous aircraft into the national airspace and bring Wisk’s self-flying Generation 6 aircraft to market. Wisk is currently pursuing Type Certification for its Generation 6 aircraft from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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2 weeks ago | 
militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Otto Aviation in Yorba Linda, Calif. has selected Galorath’s SEER platform as its standard solution for cost estimation, manufacturing planning, and risk analysis, the companies announced. The move is intended to help Otto improve cost predictability and streamline development as it continues work on a new class of sustainable transonic super-laminar (TSL) aircraft. Galorath is based in Long Beach, Calif.
