Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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SpaceITAR in the Way of U.S. Industry Participation in Planned Japan Remote Sensing Constellation
Japan is planning an up to $3 billion satellite constellation aimed at providing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and other images to deter China, but U.S. companies looking to get into […]
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Business/FinancialL3Harris CEO Points to Company Investments in Startups Due to Shield Capital Partnership
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—L3Harris Technologies [LHX] has leveraged startup firms’ technology advances due to a Shield Capital-L3Harris partnership announced in March, 2022, L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik told reporters at the Air […]
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Air ForceBlackSky Receives HEO Space Domain Awareness Contract
Australian-based HEO has awarded BlackSky [BKSY] a “seven figure data services contract” to improve space domain awareness for defense, intelligence, and commercial users, the companies said on Thursday. “Under the […]
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InternationalL3Harris and Northrop Grumman Moving Ahead on F-16 Electronic Warfare Suites
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—L3Harris Technologies [LHX] said that its site in Clifton, N.J., several weeks ago began the build of 166 AN/ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield all-digital electronic warfare (EW) suites for F-16 […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologySkydio Official: U.S. Military Supply of Small Drones ‘Woefully Inadequate’
The Pentagon’s supply of small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), strike, and other missions is far short of the need, an executive at Skydio, told a House Armed […]
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Air ForceUSAF Flying Two Sorties of B-21 Per Week
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force is flying two sorties per week of the “production representative” test Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-21 Raider stealth bomber as the service aims to move […]
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Air ForceF-35 Program Aims to Rejuvenate Lab Capacity for Software
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–As the F-35 program aims to deliver a “fully combat capable” fighter next year with the Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) software upgrade–the foundation for dozens of envisioned Block 4 […]
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Air ForceCV-22 Fleet to Be ‘Fully Operational’ by End of Year or Early Next
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) fleet of 51 Bell [TXT]-Boeing [BA] CV-22 tiltrotors may be flying without restrictions by the end of this year or […]
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Air ForceFirst Flights for USAF CCA Possible in Next Year
Anduril Industries and General Atomics may conduct first flights in the next year of their Fury and Gambit offerings for the first increment of the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat […]
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Air Force
USAF Looks to Industry to Aid Setting of Requirements for NGAS
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The U.S. Air Force has projected that it will finish an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) this fall on the Next Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) to succeed the […]
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