BAE Systems has won a $17 million Technical Area 2, Plan Gaming and Outcome Analysis contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to create an artificial intelligence-powered interactive game environment meant to train air operations planners. The company’s FAST Labs division will work with Uncharted Software and Kestrel Institute as part of the Fight Tonight […]
The U.S. Navy has equipped the amphibious ship Bataan with a 3D printer that can produce metal parts to quickly replace damaged system equipment on board the vessel. Unlike some printers that use metal powders to create components, the 3D printer installed on Bataan employs a wire welding technique to produce the parts. The ship […]
Lockheed Martin company Sikorsky and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have demonstrated an unmanned Black Hawk helicopter‘s ability to perform internal and external cargo resupply missions and rescue operations. The unmanned Black Hawk flew in separate missions as part of the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence 2022 to show how existing and future manned utility […]
The Department of Defense plans to use additive manufacturing to design and build hypersonic systems. The Pentagon, in a request for proposals issued on Friday, asked companies and academia to submit prototype solutions for developing hypersonic components using 3D printing technology. The solicitation is part of the Growing Additive Manufacturing Maturity for Airbreathing Hypersonics initiative. […]
Lockheed Martin has partnered with Red Hat to advance artificial intelligence at the edge on military platforms. Under the partnership, Lockheed will use Red Hat Device Edge to support national security missions and apply and standardize AI technologies in geographically constrained environments. Specifically, Lockheed will use Red Hat’s solution to install complex software on various […]
Members from the U.S. Air Force 15th Wing in Hawaii and the U.S. Marine Corps are working on an application that digitizes flight scheduling and mission tracking. The digital whiteboard, known as Puckboard, is designed to tackle scheduling from different services and communities. It started as an effort by the Defense Innovation Unit to connect […]
Soaring Eagle Technologies has received a beyond visual line of sight waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to fly small unmanned aerial systems for commercial inspection missions. The BVLOS approval, received by the company’s chief pilot Noah Ruiz, is one of the first issued by the FAA. The waiver allows the company’s clients […]
L3Harris Technologies is looking to implement data feeds from unmanned systems and other sources into newer iterations of its Enhanced Night Vision Goggles – Binocular offering. According to Leith Ames, director of business development, the company aims to add more situational awareness capabilities to ENVG-Bs and improve its low-light image quality. The goggles already receive […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries Mission Technologies a $76.7 million task order for electronic warfare and electromagnetic spectrum capabilities development support. According to Grant Hagen, president of HII Mission Technologies’ Cyber, Electronics Warfare & Space business group, HII Mission Technologies will perform research, analysis, test and evaluation to give the Air […]
Kaman Air Vehicles has been selected to build an unmanned aerial system prototype for the U.S. Marine Corps. The Kargo UAV prototype is a purpose-built autonomous medium-lift logistics vehicle that can carry up to 800 pounds of payload in austere environments. It also features a rugged design, a compact size that can fit a standard […]
