Air Force
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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 ForceAir Force Selects Electra for up to $85 Million in eSTOL Development Funding
Electra on Thursday said that the Air Force’s AFWERX program has selected it for a Strategic Funding Increase award. This award secures up to $85 million for Electra to continue […]
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SpaceAFRL Seeks New Mission Planning Tools for Satellites
The Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate at Kirtland AFB, N.M., want industry input on new mission planning tools […]
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Business/FinancialB-21 Grappling With Inflation But Northrop Grumman Currently Doesn’t See Loss During LRIP
Inflationary and other macroeconomic pressures are buffeting the next-generation stealth bomber program, but Northrop Grumman [NOC] currently doesn’t expect to incur a loss during the initial production phase of the […]
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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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Air ForceConversion of Minuteman III Silos to Sentinel to Take Lessons from Promontory, Utah Work
The conversion of 450 LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM silos to accomodate the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel is to draw lessons from recent work done by the Northrop Grumman team […]
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