Northrop Grumman has been chosen to perform flight tests for the Air Force’s Multi-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MuSTeR) program. MuSTeR is developing RF and electro-optical sensors for offensive, defensive, and integrated offensive and Read More
The U.S. Navy has successfully demonstrated the use of a prototype airborne mine countermeasure system. The test involved a BAE Single-system Multi-mission Airborne Mine Detection (SMAMD) System aboard an MQ-8C Fire Scout helicopter drone. The Read More
The Pentagon’s Defense Science Board (DSB) recently formed a new task force – named The Strategic Options Task Force – to review the potential for leveraging emerging technologies and approaches to “rebalance intervention cost and Read More
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has contracted with Lockheed Martin to construct the nation’s first megawatt-scale long-duration energy storage system – with the goal of achieving energy resilience. “GridStar Flow” is an innovative redox Read More
The Army’s Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) has issued a request for the Burn Digital Assessment project (BDA). BDA is seeking to develop a rugged handheld device that will measure the severity of burns on Read More
The US Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $89.4 million contract to Dzyne Technologies to research the unmanned Small Payload Precision Air-Launched Inexpensive Delivery System (SPPAIDS). SPPAIDS is a low-cost air-deployable system that will incorporate Read More
Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) recently completed a successful five-week demonstration of its Troposcatter communications system. Troposcatter is a “point-to-point,” transportable, beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) system created for the US Army. The platform offers “lower latency” and Read More
Researchers at Caltech have developed a deep-learning method that can help drones cope with new and unknown wind conditions in real-time. Called Neural-Fly, the neural network teaches the drone how to survive extreme wind similar Read More
DARPA has issued a formal request for information (RFI) for the Airborne Energy Well project – a method of recharging drones while in flight using laser-shooting tanker planes. Once in use, the technology is expected Read More
Ghost Robotics’ robot dog – Vision 60 – has been deployed on patrol at the Tyndall Air Force base for almost two years. Vision 60 now has the capability of swimming. Vision 60 is already Read More
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