Advanced / Transformational Technology
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDARPA Conducts Successful First Flight Test Of Ground-Launched OpFires Hypersonic Missile
DARPA said Wednesday it has successfully conducted the first flight test of its Operational Fires (OpFires) program to develop a ground-launched hypersonic missile capability. The Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built system for […]
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Business/FinancialMerlin Labs Raises $105 Million In New Funding Round; Announces Work On C-130J
Autonomous flight technology developer Merlin Labs on Wednesday said that company has raised $105 million in new funding as it continues to build out its three phased—crawl, walk, run—approach to […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNRO Says Payloads on Electron Rockets to ‘Expand Our Intelligence Advantage’
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Australian Department of Defense designed and developed a national security payload, which launched at 2:30 a.m. Eastern time on July 13 aboard a […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyBooz Allen Creates Venture Arm With $100 Million Backing
Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] on Wednesday launched a $100 million venture capital fund that will invest in early-stage companies with strategic dual-use commercial technologies that can benefit the company’s customers […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNorthrop Grumman Receives Contract for Low-Cost, Rapid Deployment of Small Satellites
Northrop Grumman [NOC] has won a sole source, $22 million cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized contract through February, 2026 from U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command for the Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation […]
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ArmyMore Concerted Effort On Standards Can Help Realize JADC2, Army Acquisition Exec Says
The Army’s top acquisition official said Monday a more concerted Pentagon effort to dictate standards for the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative can ensure each of the […]
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SpaceRocket Lab Prepares to Launch Two NRO Payloads in Next 11 Days
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. [RKLB] said that it is ready for the scheduled July 12 launch of a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyFuture Warfighting Concepts, Lessons from Ukraine to Figure in Air and Space Chiefs’ Discussion
The Global Air and Space Chiefs Conference this week in London will delve into future warfighting concepts harnessing artificial intelligence/machine learning for kinetic and command and control purposes; quantum computing; […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force and Virgin Orbit Launch First 7 of 44 Planned R&D Satellites
Under the Space Test Program (STP), the U.S. Space Force on July 2 launched seven DoD research and development satellites to low Earth orbit from Virgin Orbit’s [VORB] 747-based LauncherOne […]
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Air ForceHouse Wants to Re-Direct ARRW Funding to HACM
The House Armed Services Committee and the House Appropriations Committee want to redirect funding from the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) to the Air Force’s other […]