Articles about Defense

Self-flying air taxis and drones: Boeing sells key aviation technology businesses to Archer

Boeing is selling Wisk, SkyGrid and Insitu to Archer in a major deal combining autonomous aircraft, drones, airspace technology and AI. Read More

Seattle lands another $1B startup: Here’s the latest arrival in the industrial AI boom

Los Angeles-based Nominal, whose software helps engineers build, test and validate complex hardware systems, is establishing a permanent Seattle office as it ramps up hiring and looks for a larger home in the region. Read More

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AWS accelerator initiatives will offer $100M in credits to federal agencies for cloud and AI services

One program will support defense applications, the other will boost scientific research in fields ranging from biotech to quantum computing. Read More

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Starfish Space wins $54.5M Space Force contract for another satellite servicing vehicle

Starfish’s Otter spacecraft will conduct maneuvers in geosynchronous Earth orbit, with delivery scheduled in 2028. Read More

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Space entrepreneurs see defense projects as next frontier for funding and innovation

Will the Golden Dome be a golden opportunity for commercial space ventures? That may be a bit of an exaggeration.… Read More

Military tech giant Anduril lands in Bellevue, doubling footprint in Seattle region

Anduril is expanding in the Seattle area with a new office in Bellevue, Wash. The defense tech giant leased 39,851… Read More

Tech Vets: Christopher Pavel connects innovators to the military problems they can help solve

[Editor’s note: “Tech Vets: Profiles in Leadership and Innovation,” is a GeekWire series showcasing U.S. military veterans leading companies within the Pacific… Read More

Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA on Pentagon list for $5.6B in launch contracts

The Department of Defense has put Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin in the running for a share of up to $5.6… Read More

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Three Pacific Northwest space companies win awards from Space Force venture fund

SpaceWERX, which essentially serves as a venture fund for the U.S. Space Force, has awarded contracts worth as much as… Read More

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Inside the world of aviation, space and defense news with the team behind Hype Aviation

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go behind the scenes of Hype Aviation, a news aggregation site that you… Read More

Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne faces limbo after FTC files suit

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit to block Lockheed Martin’s $4.4 billion acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne, saying that… Read More

Karman Systems acquires Systima to target hypersonic and space technology

Mukilteo, Wash.-based Systima Technologies has been acquired by Karman Missile & Space Systems as part of Karman’s push into the… Read More

Amazon touts ‘technical superiority’ over Microsoft as it seeks to reopen JEDI bidding in newly unsealed court filing

Amazon is asking a federal judge to block the Defense Department from enlisting Microsoft for a contentious and lucrative cloud… Read More

Amazon challenges Pentagon’s award of $10B JEDI cloud contract to rival Microsoft

Amazon is protesting the Defense Department’s surprise decision to award a lucrative cloud contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense… Read More

Acting Pentagon chief is facing an ethics investigation over charges of Boeing bias

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who was a veteran Boeing executive before going to the Pentagon, is facing an ethics… Read More

Seattle-area Earth observation satellite factory LeoStella is open for business

When you hear the words “satellite factory,” LeoStella‘s operations in a nondescript office park south of Seattle probably isn’t the image… Read More