Advanced / Transformational Technology
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyLockheed Martin Makes Venture Investment In Space Propulsion Company Helicity
Helicity Space, a small startup developing fusion space propulsion and power technology, on Tuesday said it has received an investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures that will be used to advance […]
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SpaceU.S. Space Force Field Command Heads Meet on Future Plans
Last week, the new heads of U.S. Space Force’s three field commands–Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Operations Command (SpOC), and Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM)–met in Colorado Springs to […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyShield AI’s Autonomous Software Pilots Aerial Target Vehicle
Shield AI’s artificial intelligence-based software last week flew on and controlled the MQM-178 Firejet aerial target vehicle in multiple flights, marking the sixth type of aircraft piloted by the Hivemind […]
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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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