{"id":298374,"date":"2026-05-03T22:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298374\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:27:16","slug":"irvines-dzyne-lands-multimillion-dollar-air-force-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298374\/","title":{"rendered":"Irvine\u2019s Dzyne Lands Multimillion Dollar Air Force Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dzyne Technologies has secured a multi-million-dollar contract from the U.S. Air Force for three of its Ultra Turbo uncrewed aircraft, marking a key step toward making the platform a formal program of record, the Irvine firm announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The award from the Air Force\u2019s Research Laboratory\u2019s Center for Rapid Innovation follows a recent successful first flight of the long-endurance reconnaissance aircraft, which demonstrated operations above 18,000 feet. The system can remain airborne for more than 70 hours and features upgraded satellite communications along with a payload capacity exceeding 450 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltra delivers more than altitude \u2013 it delivers dominance,\u201d Ed Smetak, executive vice president of Airborne Technologies at Dzyne, said in a statement. \u201cWith AFRL\u2019s confidence and our production capacity, Ultra is proving that disruptive endurance and mission versatility can be delivered affordably and at scale \u2013 redefining how Group-5 systems support both government and commercial customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dzyne Technologies has secured a multi-million-dollar contract from the U.S. Air Force for three of its Ultra Turbo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,12416],"class_list":["post-298374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-free-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}