Advanced / Transformational Technology
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Intelligence CommunityHawkEye 360 Plans to Have 60 Satellites on Orbit By 2025
Virginia-based HawkEye 360 plans to have 60 satellites–20 clusters of three satellites–on orbit by 2025, Alex Fox, the company’s chief growth officer, said this week. The company said that the […]
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ArmyLockheed Martin To Start Lab Testing 50KW DEIMOS Laser Soon As It Eyes Army’s DE M-SHORAD
Lockheed Martin [LMT] is set to begin lab testing later this year of its new directed energy system that it will offer for the Army’s expected competition to field a […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyU.S. Air Force Awards Future Hypersonic Power Contracts to General Electric and Honeywell
As the U.S. Air Force seeks to spend down its remaining fiscal 2022 funds before fiscal 2023 begins on Oct. 1, the service awarded future hypersonic power contracts this week […]
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Air ForceIf Chosen, XA100 or Derivative Engine Would Require Separate Development for F-35B
While General Electric‘s [GE] proposed XA100 Tri-Variant Adaptive (TVA) for the F-35 has a degree of commonality with the company’s XA100 design for the U.S. Air Force F-35A, adapting the […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyLockheed Martin, Verizon Demonstrate Real-Time Drone ISR Over 5G Networks
Strategic partners Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Verizon [VZ] this year have demonstrated the capture and seamless, secure transmission and processing of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data in real-time over […]
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PentagonSen. Kelly: CHIPS and Science Act to Boost Domestic Semiconductor Testing
The CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law by President Biden on Aug. 9, will not only boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and packaging, but testing as well, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), […]
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Air ForceNew AFCENT Detachment to Bolster Detection of Small Drones
The U.S. Air Force component of Central Command–Air Forces Central (AFCENT)–has created Detachment 99 (DET 99) to spur innovation in the detection and countering of small drones, including those of […]
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SpaceNRO Launches One of Three Final Delta IV Heavy Rockets
The National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) NROL-91 mission lofted into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heacy rocket on Sept. 24–the fifth and final Delta IV Heavy launch […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyHypersonic Weapons ‘Not a Panacea,’ But Have Place in DoD Inventory, Kendall Says
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said this week that two booster flight tests this year of a prototype Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) have not changed […]
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Air ForceACC Commander Envisions Multi-Role CCA Fleet
Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC), envisions a future fleet of multi-role Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) that build off initial fielding lessons learned for […]