Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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PentagonJoint Warfighting Concept Assumes ‘Contested Logistics’
While DoD has yet to publish the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC) that the Joint Staff has been developing, a Pentagon official gave a preview of a portion of the JWC […]
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ArmyRaytheon Looks to Provide Sustainment for Army OMFV
Raytheon Technologies [RTX] is looking to provide sustainment for the U.S. Army’s future Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV)—a program the service has estimated will cost $46 billion to buy and […]
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SpaceSpace Development Agency Awards Contracts for Missile Tracking Layer
The Space Development Agency (SDA) on Oct. 5 awarded contracts worth $342.8 million for the development of the Wide Field of View (WFOV) program to help in the warning and […]
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Air ForceAir Force Envisions Improved Communications and Sensor Capabilities for Arctic
The U.S. Air Force wants improved sensors and communications for the Arctic, including Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), as the service seeks to make operations there more routine […]
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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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Space
Classification 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 […]