“We invest in high-risk, high-payoff research to support some of the most difficult challenges to the IC,” IARPA program manager Alexis Truitt told Breaking Defense. And debris is “one of the hardest challenges that is affecting satellites worldwide.”
By Theresa HitchensROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
The Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System, or ALIAS, was outfitted on a UH-60A Black Hawk at Fort Campbell, KY, for a simulated flight through an “obstacle run” in “Manhattan” with no pilots on board.
By Jaspreet Gill
Optical clocks in labs today “fill out a huge room, a big room with a very complex, very sophisticated apparatus that takes multiple PhDs to run,” Tatjana Curcic, who manages DARPA’s Robust Optical Clock Network project, told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens and Jaspreet Gill
The Pentagon’s blue-sky R&D agency chose 10 partners to help make goggles easier on soldiers’ necks and expand vision in the dark.
By Andrew Eversden
From Chinese fighter jets to secret space weapons, here’s what was most read for Breaking Defense in 2021.
By Lee FerranFourteen vendors have been chosen to complete designs for two different pieces of an optical terminal that can connect incompatible LEO sats.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Manta Ray is one of several unmanned vehicles moving through the military’s research and development enterprises.
By Justin Katz
Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
“The good news is the government is very interested in the commercial opportunities, but from the industry standpoint, it’s hard to figure out like what door to walk through and how to how to make that contact,” said Steve Isakowitz, CEO of the Aerospace Corporation.
By Theresa Hitchens
The B-SURE bio-bugs program is a first baby step in using biology to create a space-based supply chain, reducing reliance on materials launched from Earth.
By Theresa Hitchens
Preliminary designs reviews for the mothership drone, to be launched from an aircraft before firing its own missiles, are planned for mid-2022.
By Lee Ferran
“Calling it ‘breaking the laws of physics’ does not lead to rational scrutiny,” Secure World’s Victoria Samson said of the recent Chinese hypersonic test.
By Theresa Hitchens
“It’s this idea of collaborative sensing,” said Col. Andre’ Abadie, referring to one autonomous system talking to another to, say, confirm enemy positions or equipment.
By Andrew Eversden
Optical intersatellite links, or OISLs, use lasers to zip data between satellites on orbit — a technology that is both the central node and the biggest challenge in SDA’s effort to build a multi-layered National Defense Space Architecture.
By Theresa Hitchens
During tests last month, one Gremlins drone was destroyed after a power system failure forced the team to terminate flight, said Tim Keeter, Dynetics’ program manager.
By Valerie Insinna
