The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) plans to begin testing two high-power microwave efforts over the next few years as plans to use directed energy weapons to counter drones and cruise missiles ramp up, a senior AFRL official said May 20. The laboratory’s directed energy directorate expects ...

Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC) delivered the second Lockheed Martin [LMT]-made GPS III space vehicle March 19 to Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, ahead of an expected July launch, the center said March 20. The satellite, dubbed “Magellan” in honor of the 16th century ...

The possibility of the House voting favorably to stand up a new Space Force branch under the Air Force in the fiscal year 2020 budget is not inconceivable, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said March 20. Cooper, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces subcommittee, said the ...

As lawmakers mull the Department of Defense’s recently released $750 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2020, the leader of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) Strategic Forces subcommittee believes that the House will eventually settle on a $733 billion topline. “The number I am ...

The Air Force has budgeted nearly $648 million in research-and-development funds over the next five fiscal years to develop the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), the proposed replacement for the service’s aging Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) fleet. The service’s ...

Two senators and three representatives from New Mexico are pushing for the Pentagon to consider the southwestern state for the future home of the Space Development Agency. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich were joined by Reps. Ben Ray Luján, Debra Haaland and Xochitl Torres Small, all Democrats, ...