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Center stage at last week’s Berlin airshow was the “wingman” drone, Europe’s latest-generation defense weapon designed to accompany fighter jets.As the war in Ukraine in particular has underscored the growing importance of drones and electronic warfare, European and U.S. defense forces are rapidly developing their own AI-powered drones to complement their fighter jets and carry extra sensors, jammers and weapons.In Berlin, four companies — Airbus, Boeing, Helsing and General Atomics — were looking to tout their latest designs of the technology to Germany’s military and beyond.Wingman drones, known as collaborative combat aircraft (CCA), range in size from small interceptors to…

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Created with support from NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), TACLS leverages machine learning to automatically locate evidence (unusual increases in atmospheric moisture) of impending flash flooding that meteorologists may otherwise miss as they analyze large amounts of data. TACLS flags that evidence, indicates where flash flooding could likely occur, and displays that information via a user-friendly visualization for human analysts to interpret. Those analysts can then decide whether to issue a flash flood warning or weather advisory. This novel framework for tracking extreme weather events and predicting imminent flash floods operates in near real-time, producing forecasts in as little…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. There are so many questions to be answered about what led to yesterday’s fatal mishap involving a B-52H bomber at Edwards Air Force Base. The crash was tragic on a level the base, which sits at the center of America’s flight testing ecosystem, has not experienced, at least to our knowledge, for 75 years. The human impact here is just hard to quantify at this time. At the same time, there will be a major developmental impact, too, especially when it comes…

PARIS — MBDA is advancing with a land-launched version of its Naval Cruise Missile to offer European nations a long-range strike option, with the pan-European missile maker presenting a truck-transportable launcher and plans for a missile upgrade at the Eurosatory defense show.The upgraded version of the cruise missile is expected to be available in 2030 and will have longer range, better jamming resistance, a bigger payload and improved stealth for better survivability, Sophie Bourdais, MBDA’s commercial director for strike, told Defense News at the show near Paris on Tuesday.“It’s been a few years now, so we’ve made progress on a…

Norwegian is moving beyond its airline roots with a deal to acquire Nordic Leisure Travel Group (NLTG), owner of some of the region’s best-known vacation brands and hotels. The proposed acquisition of the region’s largest package-holiday operator is worth around SEK 7.94 billion (roughly $843 million) in cash and stock. It turns the low-cost airline into a vertically integrated travel group spanning scheduled flights, charter jets, tour operators, and hotels. NLTG brings the Ving, Spies, Tjäreborg, and Globetrotter holiday brands, the 12-aircraft carrier Sunclass Airlines, the Airshoppen travel-retail platform, and 26 of its own concept hotels in Spain, Greece, Cyprus,…

NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. Sponsored by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), this prize competition seeks forward-thinking solutions to strengthen the nation’s ability to rapidly produce and distribute critical medical supplies during public health emergencies and supply chain disruptions. Through three challenge phases, participants will develop an innovative conceptual systems design using…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. A newly emerged video offers what appears to be a first look at China’s R6000 uncrewed tiltrotor aircraft in free flight, marking a significant step beyond the tethered hover tests that had been seen previously. The design has attracted interest on account of its similarities to Bell’s MV-75A Cheyenne II, America’s crewed second-generation tiltrotor. More broadly, the development of this aircraft could have very significant implications for the People’s Liberation Army as well as civilian operators. The footage, which first appeared on Chinese…

PARIS — German defense giant Rheinmetall unveiled a new concept for inundating battlefields with scores of loitering munitions: having them streak by the dozens out of 20-foot shipping containers.Company officials presented the idea at the Eurosatory defense exhibition outside of Paris on June 15, pulling the cover off a mockup model in a mini ceremony that served as an ode to the combat punch of massed kamikaze drones, complete with glasses of cold beer and water on a warm Paris day.One container can hold 18 of the company’s FV-014 munitions, meant to plop out of the container by way of…

Amadeus plans to announce AI Commerce and formally introduce Amadeus Max on Tuesday at HITEC, the hotel industry’s annual technology conference, according to details shared with Skift in advance.  AI Commerce is designed to make hotels bookable through AI-assistant channels, and Amadeus Max, already available to users of the company’s travel intelligence tools, lets hotel staff tap into revenue and demand data by asking questions in plain English. The planned announcements point to a larger goal: Amadeus is actively working to shape how hotels are found, booked, changed, and paid for by AI agents. It is essentially trying to carry…