Advanced / Transformational Technology
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Air ForceUSAF Says Future Hypersonics Will Leverage ARRW
While the U.S. Air Force has said that the March 17 third all-up-round test of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) is the last in the […]
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SpaceSpace Development Agency Lays Out Tranche 2, Transport Layer-Gamma Plan
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a solicitation this week for one contractor to build about 20 Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Gamma satellites, the final in the […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyNGA Director Outlines AI Effort For Warning Indicators
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is moving toward an artificial intelligence-based program called ASPEN that will help the agency provide warnings to its customers based on changes in behavior worldwide, […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyDIU Launches AUKUS Electromagnetic Spectrum Prize Challenge
The Pentagon this week said the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is launching a new trilateral prize challenge focused on using offensive and defensive electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) technologies as part of […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyCDAO Supporting DoD Autonomy Efforts With Autonomy Scaffolding
The Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is supporting autonomy efforts throughout the enterprise, including the nascent Replicator Initiative, by creating the infrastructure to better leverage artificial […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Asks Congress to Restore TxDES Funding for Fiscal 2025
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) said that it did not include more than $42 million in its fiscal 2025 budget request for the missile warning portion of the Space Development […]
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CyberReport Advises Creation of New Military Service for Cyber
More than four years after the establishment of a sixth military service–U.S. Space Force–in December 2019, a new report advises the creation of a seventh service–the U.S. Cyber Force, which […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyCongressional Appropriators Bet Big On DIU In FY ’24 Appropriations Bill
In a show of generosity, congressional appropriators on Thursday released a spending bill that would fund the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) at nearly $1 billion in fiscal year 2024, […]
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Intelligence CommunityMaven Speeding Ability To Comb Through Imagery, NGA’s Whitworth Says
Analysts have sorted through 40 percent more sensor imagery in the past year than previously due to assistance from computer vision technology that is helping to find potential targets, the […]
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SpaceBoeing Targets Production Capacity of 60 Small Satellites at Dedicated Plant in El Segundo
By the end of next year, Boeing‘s [BA] small satellite plant in El Segundo, Calif., may reach an annual production capacity of 60 satellites. In 2018, Boeing bought Millennium Space […]