Col. Eric Felt, director of the space vehicles directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), said the lab's next major project in space will focus on “nontraditional orbits,” including very low-Earth orbits and those near the Moon, Breaking Defense reported Friday.
Read More »Viasat Delivers 200 MOJO Systems to Military Forces to Enable Enhanced Communications; Ken Peterman Quoted
Viasat has announced that the company has shipped 200 production units of its advanced Move Out / Jump Off (MOJO) Link 16 expeditionary tactical gateway system, Viasat reported on Monday.
Read More »Heather Wilson: Air Force Eyes Reduced Dependence on C2 Systems for Future Wars
The U.S. Air Force expects its F-35, F-22 and other fighter jets to potentially home in on hostile air and ground targets without the need to rely on land-based command-and-control platforms as adversaries develop new technologies designed to attack C2 systems, Warrior Maven reported Monday. “Airmen of the future will …
Read More »Marine Corps to Pair Units for F-35B Fighter Jet Training Exercise; Robert Walsh Comments
The U.S. Marine Corps plans to pair its 3rd Battalion 5th Marines unit with ground units from its experimental infantry battalion for training exercises on the F-35B jet fighter, Military.com reported Monday. Hope Hodge Seck writes the units will undergo training in Link 16, the military tactical exchange network used in …
Read More »Arati Prabhakar Describes Microphysiological Systems, CommEX Programs at DARPA Demo Day
Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, discussed some of DARPA’s technology projects during a demonstration event held Wednesday at the Pentagon, DoD News reported Wednesday. Prabhakar appeared with Stephen Welby, assistant defense secretary for research and engineering and Defense Department chief technology officer, and program managers at …
Read More »Army-SRC Team to Build UAV ‘Sense and Avoid’ Radars
The U.S. Army has partnered with SRC to build a radar system that would help manage the air traffic of General Atomics-built unmanned aerial vehicles and prevent collisions, Defense News reported Thursday. Joe Gould writes that the team will install the ground-based “sense and avoid” radars at five locations across the U.S. …
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