Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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Air ForceUSAF Awards Boeing Nearly $2.4 Billion KC-46A Contract
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a nearly $2.4 billion contract for 15 KC-46A Pegasus tankers in Lot 11 of the buy, the Pentagon said in its contracts […]
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SpaceSpaceX’s Starshield Has Received Most Task Orders in $660 Million for Space Force pLEO Services So Far
Military forces’ demand for Proliferated low Earth orbit (PLEO) services outstripped what U.S. Space Force expected, and the service has already divvied out $660 million in communications task orders–the majority […]
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SpaceSome GPS Launches Awaiting Vulcan Certification
The U.S. Space Force has launched six Lockheed Martin [LMT] GPS III satellites, and the company has been storing four GPS IIIs in Littleton, Colo. The 31-satellite GPS constellation “is […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyLockheed Martin Part of ICEYE Consortium to Provide ATR for F-35
Finnish synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite provider ICEYE is teaming with a number of defense companies, including Lockheed Martin [LMT], to employ automatic target recognition (ATR) algorithms to sort SAR […]
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SpaceLM 400 Satellite To Fly By Middle of 2025 on Firefly Alpha Rocket, Lockheed Martin Says
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Tuesday that its LM 400 satellite is to launch in the first six months of next year on a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket. The refrigerator-sized […]
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SpaceTournear: ‘Majority’ of DoD Systems Could Use SDA Acquisition Approach
The commercial sector’s employment of firm, fixed price contracts–notably the approach of SpaceX founder and Trump insider Elon Musk–looks to upset the apple cart of DoD acquisition come January, and […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNRO Looks to Bolster Satellite Cyber Protection
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is moving to a zero trust/defense in depth cyber protection schemata for the agency’s satellites, an NRO official said on Tuesday. “Whereas in the past […]
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Air ForceAFRL Picks Silent Arrow to Demo 200 Mile Autonomous Delivery, Yates Says
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has chosen California’s Yates Electrospace Corp. to build six CLS-200 autonomous, attritable cargo drones under a $1.8 million direct to Phase II small business […]
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Air ForceSiAW Test Missile Delivered to USAF, Northrop Grumman Says
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Monday that it has delivered to the U.S. Air Force a Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) test missile “to verify that the launch aircraft can safely […]
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Air ForceCCA Challenge: Accommodating Sensor Processing to Meet Size, Weight, Power, Cost Goals
The U.S. Air Force’s future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) may need a significant amount of processing power for sensors and mission autonomy, and the service and industry thus face a […]