Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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SpaceSpaceX Launch of GPS III Important for NSSL
The scheduled launch of the fourth GPS III satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 9:43 p.m. on Oct. 2nd from Cape Canaveral, Fla., will be important for future […]
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Unmanned SystemsLow-Cost Attritable Drones May Have Range of Air Force Roles
The U.S. Air Force may develop and field low-cost attritable/reusable (A/R) drones with a range of roles over the next decade, but the service has yet to say how or […]
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CongressAgreement with Lockheed Martin on Fixing F-35 Spare Parts Problems ‘Step in Right Direction,’ Democrats Say
The Sept. 18 handshake agreement between the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] on nearly $70.6 million in expected company investments to fix faulty electronic equipment logbooks […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyAir Force Awards Second Round of Contracts to Support Skyborg Program
The U.S. Air Force on Sept. 29 awarded a second round of contracts to nine organizations for the service’s Skyborg program–an effort to develop a family of attritable drones with […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyBi-Partisan Future of Defense Task Force Advises ‘Manhattan Project’ on AI
The House Armed Services Committee’s bipartisan Future of Defense Task Force on Sept. 29 released its final report laying out required military capabilities in the coming decades–chief among them artificial […]
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SpaceClassification Regime Challenge for Bringing Non-Traditional Companies into Military Space
As U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper and the AFWERX innovation arm try to get more non-traditional firms into the military space business under the U.S. Space Force, classification–or […]
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Air ForceAir Force to Hold Public Hearings on B-21 Bomber Bed Down Locations
The U.S. Air Force plans to hold public hearings next month on a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) associated with deciding whether Ellsworth AFB, S.D., or Dyess AFB, Texas, will […]
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Unmanned SystemsProtector Drone Achieves First Flight, As General Atomics Looks for RAF Delivery Next Summer
The General Atomics‘ RG Mk1 Protector drone, the fourth MQ-9B SkyGuardian air vehicle, achieved first flight on Sept. 25, the company said, as it awaits system testing of the drone […]
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Nuclear ModernizationConstruction of New Weapons Generation Facility at F.E Warren Begins
Construction of a new weapons generation facility (WGF) at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo., for the storage and handling of nuclear warheads recently started, per the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). […]
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Air ForcePreliminary Design Review for B-52 Radar Modernization Set for Next Month
Next month is the scheduled preliminary design review (PDR) for Boeing‘s [BA] B-52 radar modernization program (RMP), which is to feature a new, wide-band radome by L3Harris [LHX] on the […]