Top Army leaders want Low Earth Orbit satellites, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence to find targets for future long-range weapons.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.BAE Systems’ LR-PGK: The Superior Anti-Jam Solution
Going the distance to defeat emerging jam threats.
CSBA says the US is investing in the wrong jammers to counter Russia and China’s powerful EW forces. There’s another approach that would exploit our adversaries’ weaknesses.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Development of the ISR satellite terminal prototype is a foundational element of the Army’s multi-domain operation plans.
By Theresa Hitchens
The armed services agree they need to work together better — they just don’t agree on how. Now the Joint Staff is taking a hand.
By Theresa Hitchens
The military has all the data it needs to train machine learning algorithms for war – somewhere. Now the Joint AI Center has to find it all and clean it up. The goal: AI Ready data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Today, “we have Navy-only systems,” said Vice Adm. Lewis, “which is really frustrating” — in fact, it’s “asinine.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System is growing from an alternative to JSTARS to a multi-domain mega-network to connect all four services in future wars. Is this a revolution or overreach?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
Next month, the Air Force will start rapid-fire field tests of new network tech, including a long-delayed secure datalink between its two stealth fighters.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“A lot of the challenges we face in space are big data problems,” says Gen. John Raymond, who is dual-hatted as commander of Space Command and Air Force Space Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Gen. Raymond has asked me, in particular, to make sure that we are incorporating all aspects of space warfighting … into our curriculum.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The ultimate goal of ABMS, Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper enthused, is to “build a family of systems” and “create something that feels like the Internet of Things for the Air Force.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“But make no mistake…if in fact a war starts or extends into space, everyone loses,” Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein told the AFA 2019 conference. “I don’t see any winners.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The threat of long-range missile launchers in the Russian enclave is driving the Air Force to develop new tactics for multi-domain attack and dispersed defense.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In a massive simulated conflict, the human players adapted rapidly to futuristic technologies and tactics. But their command-and-control software couldn’t keep up.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
