Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Testing Dialable Effects Munition This Year
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is conducting a Joint Concept Technology Demonstration (JCTD) with the Navy on an AFRL-developed Dialable Effects Munition (DEM) that would allow pilots to dial […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Conducts First DEUCE Directed Energy Wargame
The U.S. Air Force has established a new, directed energy wargame to be held at least twice yearly to evaluate directed energy technologies under a variety of possible future conflict […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyU.S. Air Force Continues Gray Wolf Low-Cost Cruise Missile Effort
While the U.S. Air Force said this month that it had, for the first time, flight tested collaborative weapons under the service’s Golden Horde program–one of three service Vanguard efforts, […]
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Air ForceUSAF Plans to Stand Up Spectrum Warfare Wing to Focus on Offensive EW
The U.S. Air Force plans to stand up the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing to focus on offensive electronic warfare (EW) “real soon,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. […]
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SpaceUSAF to Incorporate Work on Space Alternative Acquisition Report into NDAA Ordered Framework
The fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) called for the U.S. Air Force to deliver to Congress by March 31 last year a report on an Alternative Acquisition System […]
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Air ForceSwitch to Air Force Bomber Task Force Frees Up Planning Time for Theater Threats
The U.S. Air Force’s switch from bomber forward basing to a Bomber Task Force (BTF) model is freeing up time for service personnel at Andersen AFB, Guam to focus on […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Command Unlikely to Settle in Permanent HQ in Next Few Years
U.S. Space Command is unlikely to settle in a permanent headquarters for the next several years, Army Gen. James Dickinson, the commander of U.S. Space Command, said on Jan. 26. […]
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SpaceCSAF Brown: ‘Ought to Move Forward’ with U.S. Space Force
Policy makers should embrace the U.S. Space Force as a means to increase attention on U.S. space systems and their protection and not revisit the decision to create the sixth […]
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SpaceAir Force Pays $787.2 Million to End Launch Services Agreements with Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin
On Dec. 31, the U.S. Air Force ended its Launch Services Agreements (LSAs) with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Blue Origin and paid out $787.2 million to the companies–$531.7 million to Northrop Grumman […]
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Air ForceAir Force Looks to Mid-2022 for First Flight of B-21 Raider
The U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) is looking to mid-2022 as the first flight for the Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider stealth bomber. The Air Force had said […]