Raytheon

The US has an education problem, but is Big Tech really the answer?

The future of STEM education won’t become more equitable by creating a free coding course but by seeing the solutions already before us and acting accordingly.

Sarcos raises $40 million to bring its Guardian XO exoskeleton to market

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven a significant catalyst for robotics investments, as companies look to invest in automation. Utah-based Sarcos Robotics bucks the trend a bit, however, as the purveyor

Robotics startup lets machines get closer as humans keep their distance

Using micro-location robotics, this MIT spinout is tracking five miles of New York subway, showing the transportation authority where six of its trains are — down to the centimeter.

Disrupting Space: A new event from TechCrunch

Every radical turn in technology history has its great entrepreneur, and for space that person is SpaceX founder Elon Musk. His unswerving conviction that “space must be affordable” led him to dis

Northrup Grumman is among the companies tapped to make the US Army’s drone-killing lasers

Northrop Grumman is going to be working on the U.S. Army’s long-planned drone-killing lasers. The Army wants to mount 50 kilowatt laser systems on top of its General Dynamics-designed Stryker ve

Palantir wins $800 million contract to build the US Army’s next battlefield software system

Palantir just landed a landmark contract with the U.S. Army worth north of $800 million. The Washington Post reports that the Silicon Valley data analytics company was tapped over traditional defense

Lunewave is pitching a new sensor offering better vision for autonomous vehicles

The investment arms of BMW and the Chinese search technology giant, Baidu, along with a large original equipment manufacturer for the auto industry and a slew of technology investors, have all come to

The US Government must work with tech companies if it wants to remain competitive in AI

U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is concluding his tech tour of the West Coast today with a visit to Google's Mountain View campus. Mattis spent time at Amazon and the Defense Innovation Unit

As Symantec flexes its muscle in security, who will step up to the challenge?

As the security market shakes up in more ways than one, who wins, who struggles and who will get acquired next?

Innovations In Cybersecurity At RSA 2016

Beyond artificial intelligence and machine learning to the brave new world of cybersecurity.

The Space Debris Threat And How To Handle It

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/space-debris-image.jpg"> Yesterday marked a momentous day in U.S. history as NASA launched its final space shuttle, ending a 30-year era. Fou

New pics of U.S. Navy-Raytheon's laser attack

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/laser1.png" />Well, well, well. Yesterday morning I wrote a quick thing about the U.S. Navy and Raytheon’s <a HREF="http://www.crunchge

'Better than Star Wars' laser shoots down flying aircraft for first time in history

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/laserss.jpg" />There’s no way to begin this next story without breaking out this movie quote: “If I were creating the world I wouldn'

Price Revealed For BBN Deal: $350 Million

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/bbn-logo.png" width="107" height="74" /> In September, defense contractor Raytheon announced an <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/

Robotic exoskeleton from Raytheon looks like an Aliens Power Loader or Exo-Squad suit

This kind of exoskeleton has been around for a while in prototypes and blueprints; I remember seeing one in DARPA paperwork years ago, but I think that now they’re getting out of the prototyping

It slices, it dices, it blasts through concrete

http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271552990 I met a guy at a friend’s birthday party who works for Raytheon out here in the Boston area and he was really dodgy when I a