The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board completed its fast-track study on directed energy April 19 and will brief the service’s top leadership May 2, according to the board's chair.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Leigh Giangreco covered unmanned air vehicles, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, munitions and the nuclear enterprise until June 2016. Previously, she has reported for the Delmarva Media Group, USA Today, The Washington Examiner and The Durango Herald.
The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board completed its fast-track study on directed energy April 19 and will brief the service’s top leadership May 2, according to the board's chair.
The House Armed Services Committee is asking the Air Force to shed more light on its now opaque strategy to recapitalize its fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The House Armed Services Committee is supporting the Air Force's plan for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization, with the caveat that the service should not pursue additional radar research in the follow-on development phase of the program.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking solutions for autonomous systems that must adapt to changing situations, such as a failed system, poor weather conditions or anti-access/area-denial environments.
The Air Force has awarded two contracts for the Avionics Vulnerability Assessment, Mitigations and Protections program, which helps the service understand both threats to legacy systems and research future vulnerabilities.
The Air Force is examining additional airborne assets and extra layers of ground-based mobile command and control systems that could help bolster the survivability of its new intercontinental ballistic missile system, according to service officials.
House legislators are developing a companion bill to Senate legislation released earlier this week, which pushed for faster fielding of directed-energy weapons using authority from the Fiscal Year 2003 National Defense Authorization Act.
A proposed Senate bill is pushing for faster fielding of directed-energy weapons using authority from the Fiscal Year 2003 National Defense Authorization Act.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has cast a wide net across industry for its Gremlins concept, leveraging expertise from both munitions and unmanned aerial systems for its latest venture into unmanned, swarming vehicles.
The Air Force will seek funding in its fiscal year 2018 program objective memorandum to help mitigate the service's fighter pilot shortage, a top Air Force budget and planning official said this week.
The Air Force has not identified the root cause of a starter-generator failure that has resulted in the loss of at least 13 of its primary strike remotely piloted aircraft over two years, despite a program office investigation, according to the program's Selected Acquisition Report obtained this week by Inside Defense.
The Air Force is examining a mobile option for the recapitalization of its intercontinental ballistic missile fleet, according to service and industry officials.
The Air Force this week unloaded $16 million in research and development contracts for Gremlins, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to create unmanned, air-recoverable munitions.
The Air Force posted a pre-solicitation notice for its Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization draft engineering and manufacturing development request for proposals package on April 1, just one week after the service awarded two contracts for the new fleet's radar risk-reduction efforts.
Following a funding increase in its fiscal year 2017 budget, the Air Force is planning to focus on hardware and software upgrades for its next-generation Small Diameter Bomb, including anti-jam technologies mandated by the Fiscal Year 2011 National Defense Authorization Act.
The Air Force intends to award three sole-source contracts for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance integration on new aircraft for foreign military sales cases, according to pre-solicitation notices released March 25.
The Air Force is disputing a report from the Pentagon's top weapons tester stating a radio suite on the CV-22 helicopter was not acceptable and argues the way tests were conducted on the radio suite yielded sub-optimal results.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking a platform with fighter capabilities to host its autonomous Loyal Wingman technologies, Kris Kearns, autonomy lead at AFRL, told Inside the Air Force.
The Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $10 million contract for work on a computer-killing missile project, the first major contract activity on the program since the Air Force Research Laboratory successfully demonstrated the system in 2012.
The Air Force will sole-source sensor suite modifications for the Block 30 Global Hawk to Raytheon, according to a justification posted to Federal Business Opportunities on March 3.