Hypersonic Testing. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants to amend the Senate’s draft fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill to create a testing area for military and civil supersonic and hypersonic aircraft. Lee has submitted for Senate consideration an amendment to the bill that provides that the ...
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HACM Partnership. Under the more than $985 million contract the U.S. Air Force awarded to Raytheon Technologies last week for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM), Northrop Grumman is to continue its partnership with Raytheon to build scramjet engines for HACM. Northrop Grumman said it has ...
Wargame Ship Size. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday this week said naval wargames analysis is pushing the service to have fewer large surface combatants like destroyers and more smaller vessels like the upcoming Constellation-class guided-missile frigate. “So the trends that we’ ...
Quantum Resistance. The National Security Agency last Wednesday released its second round of requirements for algorithms to assist owners, operators and vendors of national security systems owners in the transition to quantum-resistant technology. The pursuit of quantum computing is expected to ...
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DISA Data Strategy. DISA said on Aug. 30 it has released its new Data Strategy Implementation Plan (IPlan) detailing how the office will go about improving its data integration and utilization, to include a goal of leveraging data as a “strategic asset.” “The IPlan will guide how DISA ...