The Air Force has launched a research effort to develop digital twin technology to more quickly and cost-effectively fix or upgrade future capabilities. Digital twins are digital representations of real-world objects. The technology is commonly used in modern digital engineering, a development method championed by former Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper, Breaking Defense reported. […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has scheduled more tests to address previous test setbacks by the swarming drone program dubbed Golden Horde. Speaking at a recent Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies event, AFRL Commander Brig. Gen. Heather Pringle said the lab has made adjustments to the Golden Horde weapons system and that a new demo […]
The Department of Defense might someday need to rely more on artificial intelligence to make decisions when confronting swarms of unmanned aircraft systems, an official said. Col. Marc Pelini, division chief for capabilities and requirements in the Joint Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, said humans might be unable to make decisions fast enough when dealing with […]
James Geurts is heading back to the Navy a few weeks after resigning from his post as assistant Navy secretary for research, development and acquisition. Geurts, performing the duties of Navy undersecretary, will serve as the operations and management chief for the Department of the Navy. The role puts him in charge of department-wide intelligence […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tapped Duality Technologies to develop a hardware accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption computations in support of its Data Protection in Virtual Environments program. Under the terms of a $14.5 million contract, a team of experts from Duality Technologies will develop a novel application-specific integrated circuit, dubbed TREBUCHET, to […]
