Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceHouse NDAA Would Require White House To Create GPS Modernization Plan
The House version of the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would require the White House to devise a plan within six months of the law’s passage to accelerate […]
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Unmanned SystemsBAE Systems Offers Brontanax For UK CCA, No Comment Yet On Any Proposal For USAF
Brontanax, the first British Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) design, will have electronic warfare and precision strike options, BAE Systems said at the United Kingdom’s Farnborough Air Show this week. A […]
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SpaceAinsworth: Launch of 500 U.S. Space Force Satellites Planned By End Of 2027
By the end of next year, U.S. Space Force (USSF) is planning a multi-fold increase in the service’s launches and its number of orbiting satellites. Last week, Space Force Space […]
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Air ForceDegree Of Survivability Key Question For DIU/USAF MMA Program
The degree of survivability for future massed modular aircraft (MMA) is a key question for the program. This month, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and U.S. Air Force announced MMA […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyPentagon Seeks Bomber Prototypes In Drone Dominance Program
The Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance Program (DDP) plans to award $32 million for “reusable bomber/dropper” prototypes–with “additional orders planned”–in the latest instance of DoD’s affordable drone push. “One-way attack […]
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Unmanned Systems“More Than 50” Drones At A Time Target Of Lockheed Martin’s New MORFIUS X-Rotor HPM Design
Lockheed Martin [LMT] debuted the design for the company’s Mobile Radio Frequency-Integrated UAS Suppressor (MORFIUS) X-rotor high powered microwave (HPM) counter-drone system on Monday at the Farnborough Air Show in […]
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Space
Space Force Boosts Ceiling For NSSL Phase 3, Lane 1 By $11.4 Billion
U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) has increased the ceiling of Phase 3, Lane 1 National Security Space Launch (NSSL) contracts by $11.4 billion to $17 billion and said […]
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Space21 More York Space Systems Satellites Launched for SDA Tranche 1
A Tranche 1 (T1) launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) put 21 York Space Systems [YSS] Transport Layer […]
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Air ForceUSAF F-16 VENOM Aircraft To Enter DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements Program
The Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have begun another set of tests with one of a group of Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-16 fighters fitted with […]
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Air ForceAir Force May More Than Triple JASSM/LRASM Buy Over FYDP
The Air Force planned buy of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) family may nearly quadruple over the future years defense plan (FYDP) through fiscal 2031. […]