The service has produced a battery bracket but is seeking manufacturing partners to design other components.
By Flavia Camargos PereiraA new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
The proliferation of 3D printers, combined with loosened rules on using them, could change the way the Navy fixes its ships at sea, a top officer tells Breaking Defense.
By Justin Katz
The company, just 55 employees strong, boasts a unique approach to additive manufacturing of lightweight, versatile composites well-suited to aerospace applications from fighter aircraft and drones to hypersonics.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
An HII executive told Breaking Defense the NAVSEA certification will open the door for other alloys to be approved for use.
By Justin Katz
For something like a small UAS, “instead of taking years to develop [a design] it takes months, and instead of taking weeks to manufacture by laying out carbon fiber, we take hours to assemble,” Divergent CEO Kevin Czinger told Breaking Defense.
By Aaron Mehta
The jump to metal-based 3D printing for Navy ships has been a long time coming, as the service wants quick fixes for commonly degraded parts.
By Justin Katz
3D printing satellites would allow the Space Force to rapidly “pivot” to meet new threats by compressing the time from design to orbit, says Millennium Space Systems CEO Jason Kim.
By Theresa Hitchens
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
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BAE Systems’ role in DARPA’s CRANE program builds upon its demonstrator aircraft that was the first in aviation history to maneuver in flight using only active flow control technologies.
By Barry Rosenberg
A Pentagon watchdog’s new report brings together the services’ lacking efforts in cybersecurity and ambitious strides in additive manufacturing.
By Justin Katz
“The ability to additively manufacture an aircraft engine part and gain military airworthiness is a significant step forward in growing the adoption of additive manufacturing in the Air Force,” Nathan Parker, deputy program executive officer at RSO, said.
By Theresa Hitchens
“As you surely know, there is a lot of emotion in this on both sides of the argument, making it as much political as it is legal,” said attorney Henry Hertzfeld of the DARPA plans.
By Theresa Hitchens
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Preparing for the Great Power competition gives the Defense Department an opportunity to remake the way it develops, deploys, and sustains technologies and capabilities, while creating new collaborative opportunities with joint forces and partner militaries.
By Sam Richman, Senior Solution Architect for USAF - Red Hat
In future wars, AI, networks, and analytics won’t just help target precision weapons: They can also liberate combat units from long and vulnerable supply lines. But to make that work, AMC commander Gen. Ed Daly told us, frontline troops need a constant flow of data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“We’re learning from industry as we go,” said Eileene Vidrine, Air Force chief data officer.
By Theresa Hitchens
