The experiment is expected to eventually lead to the wholesale replacement of the Air Force’s slow, cumbersome and ineffectual network with a modern, commercially procured one with improved speed, security and functionality.
By Barry RosenbergROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
If you want to prototype 5G networks on a military base, you need to join the National Spectrum Consortium first. That’s an increasingly common model.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Reformers like Air Force acquisitions chief Will Roper have seized on Other Transactions Authority contracts as a way to bypass bureaucracy and jumpstart innovation.
By Colin Clark
Development of the ISR satellite terminal prototype is a foundational element of the Army’s multi-domain operation plans.
By Theresa Hitchens
The new effort focuses on space situational awareness, space data analytics, space communication, artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite servicing.
By Theresa Hitchens
The MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator team is looking at how AI can help build “an Alexa that can understand our military jargon,” says Col. Jason Brown, noting that “there are a million use cases out there for that.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Gray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
Unlike Patriot, LTAMDS can watch for drones, missiles, and planes coming from all directions at once. A single LTAMDS side panel is twice as powerful as the entire Patriot radar.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
AFRL’s new Air Force Explore challenge intends to make four to seven awards, each in the $1 million to $2 million range.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space & Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium has been so successful at providing competitive prototypes, fast, that SMC wants to expand its scope dramatically.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. and Theresa Hitchens
Dynetics will build the Common Glide Body for both the Army and Navy, which Lockheed will integrate into full-up weapons for the first Army battery by 2023.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Presumptive Deputy Defense Secretary Norquist pledged to “revise budget review timelines and data collection standards to maximize senior leader decision-making quality and timing.”
By Paul McLeary
The first iteration of the new Assured Precision Navigation & Timing (APNT) kit will go to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Germany for evaluation.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
DISA will use OTA contracting to develop an encryption model that can’t be broken by quantum computers.
By Barry Rosenberg
The inability of DoD to tailor its processes to incentivize non-traditional participation in the market has serious national security implications.
By Bill Greenwalt