The U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps have announced that the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin, would be ready for full-rate production following a one-year delay. Lockheed Martin said in a statement that JAGM completed operational testing on the Army’s AH-64E Apache and the Marine Corps’s AH-1Z Viper helicopters. […]
BAE Systems has received a $13 million contract to install its Digital Global Positioning System Anti-jam Receivers on Air Force F-15E fighter jets, boosting reception and protecting from signal jamming and spoofing using antenna electronics, signal processing and digital beamforming. F-15Es are the second type of plane to receive the upgrade. In 2018, what was then […]
The Litening advanced targeting pod designed and built by Northrop Grumman has undergone successful test runs aboard U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets. The targeting pod was put through mock exercises such as ground moving target tracking, air-to-air tracking and target designation. Pilots also utilized its eye-safe training laser mode, which allowed for realistic simulations […]
The Department of Defense has announced its latest cohort of fellows under the Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative, a pilot program aimed at introducing university scientists and students into the Pentagon’s research environment. LUCI was launched in 2016 and has since supported basic research in areas such as applied mathematics, cognitive neuroscience, engineering biology and quantum information […]
Rocket Lab USA has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Transportation Command to explore worldwide cargo delivery options. Under the CRADA, Rocket Lab will examine the possibility of using its Neutron and Electron launch vehicles for global cargo transportation. The company will also be able to use its Photon spacecraft to […]
The Department of Defense has modified a contract it awarded to Sigma Defense company Solute for Automated Digital Network Systems support services. Under the modification valued at $32 million, the company will continue providing the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific with system, network, cyber, software engineering and program management services and help modernize the U.S. […]
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Nickolas Guertin for the role of assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition. Guertin currently is currently the director of operational test and evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the White House said. In his current role, Guertin is responsible […]
The Department of Defense must be able to transition from experimentation and prototyping to fielding capabilities more quickly if it wants to stay ahead of adversarial threats, according to an agency official. Kathleen Hicks, the deputy secretary of the DOD and a 2022 Wash100 winner, said during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency conference that […]
Robins Air Force Base has briefed Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on the base’s progress on various initiatives. The secretary, a three-time Wash100 winner, visited the base in Georgia to check up on its partnerships with the Houston County Board of Education and the Development Authority of Houston County, the Air Force […]
The Army will establish the Program Manager Cyber and Space, a new division intended to fulfill the service’s responsibility to deliver capabilities and programs to the other services on behalf of U.S. Cyber Command. Under the ambit of Program Executive Office Intelligence Electronic Warfare and Sensors, C&S will absorb the cyber offensive and space capabilities of Program […]
