Advanced / Transformational Technology
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PentagonFormer USAF Acquisition Head Chairing Defense Innovation Board’s Strategic Investment Capital Task Force
Former U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper is chairing the Defense Innovation Board’s (DIB) strategic investment capital task force to examine ways to spur public-private partnerships to help field […]
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Air ForceAFRL ‘Airlift Challenge’ Seeks New Algorithms for Transportation Planning
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) information directorate in Rome, N.Y., is seeking the online submission of new, artificial intelligence/machine learning algorithms to speed the planning and execution of airlift […]
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Air ForceDARPA and Air Force Finish HAWC Flight Tests, As Hypersonic Missiles Look Closer to Production
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force have completed the fourth and final flight test for the Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) program. The flight […]
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SpaceAFRL Receives NTS-3 Satellite for Testing, Planned Launch Late This Year
L3Harris Technologies [LHX] recently delivered its Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) space vehicles directorate’s integration and test building at Kirtland AFB, N.M., AFRL said […]
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Air ForceAFRL Bandit Adversary Air Program Ground Tests New Propulsion System by Blue Force Technologies
North Carolina’s Blue Force Technologies said on Jan. 25 that it has ground tested a “novel carbon fiber composite propulsion flowpath system” for the small business’ Fury unmanned fighter under […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Seeks to Bolster Domestic Electronics Capacity for Future Systems
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate is seeking innovative industry solutions to bolster domestic capacity to build high-performance Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) and non-volatile memory (NVM) devices […]
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ArmyLockheed Martin Achieves ‘First Light’ Of 50KW DEIMOS Laser
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has achieved “first light” of the new directed energy system it plans to offer for the Army’s expected competition to field a Stryker-mounted 50-kilowatt laser system, the […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNorthrop Grumman, AT&T, Fujitsu Demonstrate Open Architecture For 5G-Enabled Battlespace
Following up on their partnership last spring to advance digital capabilities for the battlespace, Northrop Grumman [NOC] and AT&T [T] on Wednesday along with Fujitsu said they have demonstrated the […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Commander Points to Benefits of Disaggregated Space Architectures
The head of U.S. Space Force said this week that the war in Ukraine has emphasized the “criticality of space in modern warfare” and said that commercial systems will continue […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Developing New AN/APG-85 Radar for F-35 Lot 17 and Beyond
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Jan. 11 that it is developing the AN/APG-85 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for Lot 17 and beyond of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 […]
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