A Department of Defense official said that demand for counter-drone technology is as high as that for 155mm artillery shells. Speaking at a panel in a recent Reagan National Defense Forum, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante, a 2023 Wash100 awardee and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, said the high […]
Holding humans accountable for the misuse of artificial intelligence during conflicts is a way to build trust and confidence in the technology, according to a Department of the Air Force official. At a panel discussion at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the challenge with AI use is […]
The Department of Defense’s chief technology officer said the United States and Australia plan to engage in joint hypersonics experiments by 2024. Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Dec. 2, Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and a 2023 Wash100 winner, shared that Australia and the U.S. have been building […]
Leidos has awarded Stratolaunch a contract to deliver hypersonic flights and optional payloads in support of the U.S. Navy’s Multiservice Advanced Capability Test Bed program. Stratolaunch will provide five Talon-A hypersonic vehicles, which will serve as a testing platform under the MACH-TB program. Talon-A is an autonomous and reusable solution that would allow the Navy […]
The U.S. Navy is continuing its efforts to integrate unmanned systems for live firing at sea to deter or de-escalate conflicts. On Monday, the Naval Forces Central Command hosted the second Digital Talon exercise in the international waters of the Arabian Gulf. The exercise showcased how combining the Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Indianapolis, three […]
Parsons Corporation’s Colorado Springs facility has taken over full operations of three spacecraft of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites fleet under a ground station-as-a-service contract. NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Suitland, Maryland, transitioned the operations to Parsons in a one-year process, according to NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. […]
Eight enlisted airmen of the 133rd Security Forces Squadron in St. Paul, Minnesota, have completed a three-day training on the X2D Drone, the first National Guards certified to operate the unmanned aerial system developed by Skydio. According to the online defense media DVIDS, the 133rd SFS, which acquired the Skydio UAS in 2023, trained the […]
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has completed an intercept testing against multiple ballistic missile and anti-ship cruise missile targets, one of the largest integrated air and missile defense events in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility. The intercept testing demonstrated the ballistic missile defense-configured Aegis Readiness Assessment Vehicle’s capability to detect, track and execute […]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has joined the Trillion Parameter Consortium, an organization of scientists that addresses challenges with large-scale artificial intelligence systems and advances AI capabilities for scientific discoveries. ORNL will help the consortium build a community interested in generative AI model development, launch and coordinate projects that would benefit the broader AI and scientific […]
RTX unit Raytheon has completed a live-fire test on the U.S. Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, marking a step toward the radar’s expected full operational capability by the end of 2023. In the latest test, which Raytheon detailed in a press release on Monday, the LTAMDS acquired and tracked a cruise missile […]
