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Tethers Unlimited delivers tiny but powerful satellite transmitter for Army

Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it’s delivered the first flight unit of a K-band radio transmitter that’s designed for use… Read More

Space Force? Space Corps? Space Guard? Experts study ways to patrol final frontier

Two months after President Donald Trump said the United States may create a new military branch to focus on national… Read More

Paul Allen marks Memorial Day with a look back at deep-sea gravesites he helped find

It’s traditional to revisit the gravesites of America’s fallen warriors on Memorial Day, but billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen is adding… Read More

U.S. pullout from Iran nuclear deal boosts most aerospace stocks, but not Boeing’s

A broad range of aerospace and defense stocks rose today as markets put a martial spin on President Donald Trump’s… Read More

TLDR: Amazon and Best Buy are BFFs, T-Mobile’s military hiring push, ‘Walk it out’ with Rover

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

T-Mobile to spend $500M to bring 5G to military bases, hire 10K vets in sweeping initiative

T-Mobile is embarking on a military initiative that the company says includes its biggest hiring push ever, largest discount program… Read More

Paul Allen’s hunt for historic shipwrecks scores another WWII find: the USS Helena

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s seagoing sleuths are reporting one more find in their quest to locate sunken military vessels from… Read More

Trident sub base and Boeing cited in closure of Seattle’s Russian consulate

News Brief: Twenty-five years ago, the opening of Russia’s Seattle consulate was a symbol of the post-Cold War thaw, but… Read More

With Paul Allen’s backing, explorers find wreckage of USS Juneau, famous for the Sullivan Brothers

The latest chapter of an Irish-American family tragedy played out on St. Patrick’s Day when an expedition team backed by… Read More

President Donald Trump revives the policy debate over creating military Space Force

President Donald Trump today talked about creating a U.S. Space Force, breathing new life into a concept that’s been proposed… Read More

National Space Council’s meeting takes aim at industry regulations – and at China

Space industry deregulation, and the potential perils posed by China’s space program, shared the spotlight at today’s meeting of the… Read More

Amid Zuma satellite controversy, SpaceX gets a vote of confidence from Air Force

News Brief: The classified satellite known as Zuma was said to have disappeared soon after its Jan. 7 launch on… Read More

Reports: Pentagon continued UFO investigation program using ‘black money’

The U.S. Department of Defense funded a program to investigate unidentified flying objects until 2012, and the program may well… Read More

LaserMotive makes a switch to PowerLight and focuses on beaming power over fiber

The company formerly known as LaserMotive is coming out of stealth mode with a new name — PowerLight Technologies — and a… Read More

Report: Amid trade dispute, Canada gets set to cancel Boeing fighter jet deal

News Brief: Reuters reports that Canadian officials have decided to cancel an order of 18 Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet jets,… Read More

Geek of the Week: Ex-Marine Solaire Sanderson combats new threats in Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center

As a signals intelligence analyst in the United States Marine Corps, Solaire Sanderson was deployed twice to Afghanistan and had… Read More

Systima’s pyrovalves make their debut with Atlas 5 launch of NROL-52 spy satellite

After more than a week of delays, the National Reconnaissance Office was glad to see its latest spy satellite go… Read More

Vice President Mike Pence at National Space Council meeting

National Space Council hears calls for moon trips and stronger space defense

The Trump administration plans to send astronauts and robots back to the moon in as little as five years’ time,… Read More

Here’s how the Pentagon is whittling down the $4 billion price tag for Air Force One

President Donald Trump was stretching the truth when he claimed that he trimmed a billion dollars from the cost of… Read More

Pentagon chief James Mattis meets with Amazon chief Jeff Bezos during tech tour

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, played host to Defense Secretary James Mattis today during the Pentagon chief’s swing through high-tech… Read More

Boeing 747s ordered by bankrupt Russian airline may end up as Air Force One jets

Two Boeing 747-8 jets that were given up before delivery by Russia’s bankrupt Transaero Airlines could well end up as… Read More

Air Force secretary hints at military space applications for Stratolaunch super-plane

Stratolaunch, the six-year-old space venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it’ll use the world’s biggest airplane to launch… Read More

Tech innovation meets military service: GeekWire’s Memorial Day remembrance and update

As the first warm-weather holiday weekend of the year, it’s easy to get caught up in barbecues and road trips and lose… Read More

Microsoft HoloLens takes augmented reality to next level for warfighters

Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality system is scoring victories with the U.S. military, which means the goggle-eyed headsets are more likely to… Read More

Tankfest NW puts military lore on the front lines at Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Museum

This weekend’s Tankfest Northwest serves as the coming-out party for the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, the recently rebranded… Read More

Boeing wins go-ahead from DARPA to build and test XS-1 military space plane by 2020

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says it has selected the Boeing Co. to develop and test its XS-1… Read More

Boeing and Air Force demonstrate new airborne networking system for fighter jets

The Boeing Co. and the U.S. Air Force say they’ve shown that a new type of communication pod for F-15… Read More

Air Force’s X-37B space plane lands in Florida after secret 2-year orbital mission

After nearly two years in orbit, the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B robotic space plane landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center… Read More

On the front lines of tech: Bunker Labs ready to help veterans move from military service to startups

Not everyone has the work ethic to be an entrepreneur — the long hours, the commitment, the need to focus… Read More

Paul Allen’s airplane showcase expands, rebrands as Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum

Cross Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection off your list of local attractions, and put a new name in its… Read More