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 […]
Lockheed Martin will build an advanced propulsion Long Range Maneuverable Fires missile concept under a contract with the U.S. Army’s Aviation and Missile Center. The missile can hit targets more than 499 kilometers away, farther than the current range of flight of Precision Strike Missiles. LRMF will be designed to be compatible with existing Army […]
Summit 7 has partnered with Microsoft to provide aerospace and defense contractors within the defense industrial base with access to the Microsoft Azure Government Secret cloud. The cloud service offering will allow DIB partners to handle classified workloads and sensitive data in compliance with existing cybersecurity standards. Azure Government Secret has achieved Department of Defense […]
The Federal Trade Commission has posted a request for information to understand the state of competition and cybersecurity in the cloud computing market and the technology’s impact on health care, defense and other industries. Stephanie Nguyen, chief technology officer of the FTC, noted that portions “of the economy now rely on cloud computing services.” In […]
The Naval Supply Systems Command has decided to replace its existing cloud data warehouse IBM Netezza with Yellowbrick as the command moves forward with data modernization. The newly selected data warehouse provides increased performance of extract, transform, load ingestion and reporting speeds; reduced energy consumption; and faster data processing times compared to Netezza, Yellowbrick said. […]
The U.S. Navy seeks $3.6 billion to fund its hypersonic missile program’s all-up rounds for five years. According to the service’s fiscal year 2024 budget request documents, the money will be used for 64 Conventional Prompt Strike AUR development rounds. The allocation will be split into multiple development rounds per fiscal year until FY 2028. […]
