Advanced / Transformational Technology
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ArmyArmy Plans To Field More Than 1,000 Switchblade 600 Attack Drones For Replicator
The Army plans to buy and field more than a thousand Switchblade 600 loitering munitions over the next year for the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative, a senior service official has said. […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyBAE Collaborating With GlobalFoundries On Chip Development
Britain’s BAE Systems and U.S. semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries [GFS] on Thursday said they have agreed to collaborate on research and development in advanced chip technologies to strengthen the supply chain […]
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Air ForceHigher Prices for 19 B-21s to Follow 21 in Five Lot LRIP Could Help Northrop Grumman Stave Off Losses on Program
The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman [NOC] are negotiating prices for 19 B-21 Raider stealth bombers to follow the 21 scheduled for five lots of low-rate initial production (LRIP), […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDIU Plans Dozens Of Solicitations In Coming Months To Spend FY ’24 funds
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Thursday announced the strategic allocation for its $983 million fiscal year 2024 budget and said it plans to issue around two dozen solicitations in […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyINDOPACOM’s Valiant Shield Deployed Anduril’s C2 Technologies
Anduril Industries on Wednesday said its Lattice open solutions platform and other company hardware and software were used to help enable geographically distributed command and control (C2) during the recent […]
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ArmyArmy Won’t Field First Operational Hypersonic Weapon Battery Until FY ‘25, GAO Says
The Army won’t field its first operational Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) battery with live rounds until fiscal year 2025 due to delays, the Government Accountability Office said in a […]
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Air ForceHouse Defense Authorization Bill Cuts USAF NGAD By $300 Million for ‘Program Delay’
The House’s fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill, H.R. 8070, contains $3 billion for U.S. Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD)–a $300 million decrease due to an unspecified “program delay.” […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Awards General Atomics, Blue Origin, Viasat, CACI Laser Terminal Prototype Contracts
The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said on June 17 that it has awarded laser communication terminal prototype contracts to General Atomics, Blue Origin, CACI International Inc. […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNavy, DIU Tout Fast-Paced Retraining Of Automatic Target Recognition For UUVs
Using commercial solutions, the Navy and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) have demonstrated significant improvement in retraining machine learning (ML) models used on unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to detect targets […]
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Unmanned SystemsCDAO Seeks Commercial Sensor Solutions To Detect One Way UAS
The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) last Saturday issued a solicitation for sensors that can improve detection of one-way drones to enhance the counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) […]
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