A U.S. Air Force official said that availability of B-2 stealth bombers has been increasing, as the service looks to increase the mission readiness of the service’s 21 Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-2s with a cockpit display upgrade. The service has requested $164.6 million for the program in ...
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BAE Systems is to leverage its experience in autonomous systems, as it seeks to develop an attritable drone under the U.S. Air Force’s Skyborg program, the company said on Oct. 22. The Air Force launched Skyborg in May in an effort to field an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system to be ...
While not wedded to 386 squadrons’ worth of air frames to execute the 2018 National Defense Strategy, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown said on Wednesday that 386 squadrons’ worth of capability is vital and that less than that would increase risk to national security. & ...
The U.S. Space Force is looking to its collaboration with industry in the new service’s Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) for help in the protection of satellites. Formed in 2015, the CIC is to integrate commercial satellite capabilities into the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) at ...
As the U.S. Army recruits the other military services to participate with their systems in next year’s Project Convergence exercise to showcase significantly contracted sensor-to-shooter timelines through artificial intelligence (AI), policy discussions on the future use of lethal autonomous ...
The U.S. Air Force updated software code on a Lockheed Martin [LMT] U-2 reconnaissance plane in-flight on Oct. 16, according to Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper. “Friday, a U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane updated code during flight–a military first!” Roper said via Twitter on ...