The Air Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] have successfully flight tested components of one of the service’s future hypersonic weapons aboard a B-52 Stratofortress bomber. A sensor-only version of the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) flew on a B-52 on June 12 out of Edwards Air ...
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The Air Force’s XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aerial vehicle completed its second flight last week and completed all test objectives, the service said June 17. The 71-minute flight took place June 11 at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, according to an Air Force Research Laboratory (ARFL) statement. The ...
The Air Force awarded Boeing [BA] a contract modification worth up to $6.5 billion for future Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits, spares, repairs and technical services, according to a June 14 contract announcement. The modification extends the original 2014 contract for five more years. ...
LOS ANGELES — The Army is crafting its first-ever tactical space layer strategy, said one servicemember involved in the strategic development June 11. “Right now, we are looking at producing a LEO [Low-Earth Orbit]-focused tactical space layer” to focus on communications, position, navigation ...
LOS ANGELES – Machine-learning could help the U.S. military harness precision, navigation and timing (PNT) data it can already access to detect spoofing or jamming efforts more quickly, a Marine Corps engineer said June 12. In focusing particularly on GPS technologies, industry and warfighters ...
A new government watchdog report warns that the delayed delivery of the Air Force’s next-generation aeriel refueler means that some of the program’s funds are instead going to keeping the legacy refueler fleet in flight. In a June 12 report titled, “KC-46 Tanker Modernization: Aircraft ...
