Officials from the Barksdale Air Force Base have taken initial steps toward implementing the U.S. Air Force’s first air-launched hypersonic weapon. Airmen from the 2nd Maintenance Group within the 307th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, as well as civilian personnel from the ARRW and B-52H Stratofortress Systems Program Office, validated the loading and unloading procedures for the […]
The Department of the Air Force‘s chief information officer said adopting artificial intelligence is essential to staying on top of advances in military technology and adversarial threats. Speaking at an event hosted by Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, 2022 Wash100 winner Lauren Knausenberger said current manual processes will put the U.S. military’s kill chain at […]
The Department of Defense‘s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office has recommended the Drone Dome system, provided through Rafael Systems Global Sustainment, as a C-sUAS-as-a-Service offering. The recommendation follows a successful demonstration of Drone Dome‘s C-UAS capabilities. According to RSGS, Drone Dome was able to deploy accurate detection, identification and soft-kill capabilities against various targets […]
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office within the Department of Defense aims to enable artificial intelligence tools for combatant commands in 2023 to transform how they execute their missions. The combatant commands are already adopting AI capabilities but CDAO sees the need to accelerate the process to enable the joint force. With the AI […]
Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have expanded their strategic relationship to continue improving the Department of Defense’s classified cloud and advanced technologies. Lockheed and Microsoft will focus on classified cloud innovations, artificial intelligence and machine learning, modeling and simulation capabilities, 5G .mil programs and digital transformation. Under the partnership, Microsoft will grant Lockheed access to the […]
The U.S., China and Russia are among the countries seeking to develop artificial general intelligence, the next phase of AI that could perform human-level tasks and abilities and exceed human intelligence, according to Charles Simon, CEO of technology company FutureAI. Unlike current AI technologies that rely on datasets to execute complex tasks, AGI would exhibit […]
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. […]
