The Department of Defense is seeking sources that can provide counter-autonomy and counter-artificial intelligence solutions. According to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, the required technologies should be able to defeat multi- and cross-domain uncrewed systems by impacting several capabilities. The DOD seeks sensor technologies, autonomous defensive technologies and passive […]
Rear Adm. Stephen Tedford, program executive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons at Naval Air Systems Command, said the Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface missile the U.S. Navy is developing would probably fall in the Mach 4-plus category, meaning HALO does not qualify as a hypersonic weapon. Hypersonics fly at least five times the […]
The U.S. Army’s 1st Multi-Domain Task Force deployed the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon system from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington to Cape Canaveral in Florida as part of the Thunderbolt Strike exercise, whose purpose is to provide military personnel the opportunity to rehearse expeditionary launch capabilities. Thunderbolt Strike also sought to test command and control linkages […]
Catherine Cahill, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration, says the United States is lagging in granting permissions for drone research and testing, hampering commercial development and endangering human fliers. She noted that her office only received Federal Aviation Administration clearance to evaluate such aircraft in February despite […]
The U.S. Space Force is seeking feedback for its Epoch 2 medium-Earth orbit missile tracking program. According to a statement from the Space Systems Command, Epoch 2 will build on the Epoch 1 MEO tracking program, which will feature at least nine satellites built by Millennium Space and Raytheon Technologies. In November, the two companies […]
The U.S. Army’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office has completed an assessment of BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System laser-guidance kits against class-2 drones. During an exercise at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, the Department of Defense found that 70-millimeter APKWS rockets were 100 percent effective against drones weighing between 25 and 50 […]
The Department of the Air Force does not plan to acquire the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon hypersonic missile following a spate of development and testing failures. Andrew Hunter, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics and a 2023 Wash100 winner, told the House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee […]
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have conducted a study involving the use of artificial intelligence and 100 years of hurricane data from the National Hurricane Center’s Atlantic Hurricane Database to form a new method that can accurately simulate storm trajectory and wind speeds. The new simulation approach could allow hurricane-prone regions […]
The director of the Missile Defense Agency said his organization will develop hardware for its hypersonic missile interceptor. Vice Adm. Jon Hill recently told the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the Department of Defense Office of Research and Evaluation concluded a risk review for the Glide Phase Interceptor. He stated that the MDA […]
U.S. Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, said he envisions future domestic threat detection capabilities to feature autonomous and uncrewed systems. He mentioned sensor-equipped unmanned platforms and kinetic and non-kinetic effectors as examples of future homeland security capabilities. Testifying on March 23 at a Senate […]
