“We’re very, very fixated on being competitive with the pacing challenge [of China],” said Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. “I think the budget that we’ve submitted moves us forward — not quite as fast as we would like to, but it moves us forward in the right direction while maintaining current capabilities that are essential to the nation.”
By Michael MarrowRocket development builds on tried and true experience for new orbital missions
With Russian engines out of the picture, there’s a new Medium Launch Vehicle on the horizon that is US sourced with a fairing sized to launch constellations.
But a different acquisition strategy can help lower risks when fixed-price approaches are involved, the acquisition czar said.
By Michael Marrow
Details of the AFRL’s Off-Board Sensing Station program remain highly classified, though the effort is expected to field an unmanned aircraft that can fly ahead of fighters and relay targeting information and other threat data back.
By Michael Marrow
David Alexander, president of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, told Breaking Defense several options could power the company’s Gambit drone offering, and that the Air Force has been more forthcoming with cost expectations behind closed doors.
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Unmanned aircraft reimagined, a revolutionary technology to tackle big challenges in the maritime domain
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Army National Guard units are an essential part of the Total Force. They need the same equipment, too.
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The Royal Air Force is set to become the world’s first operational user of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian, the world’s most advanced medium-altitude, long-endurance RPAS.
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Solving the massive problem of heat in C4ISR technology
JADC2 and multi-domain operations require computing and communications at the edge, and a way to manage heat generated by these systems.
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The first unmanned aerial system of its kind that can search the ocean surface and the depths in support of naval intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
By General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
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Many reasons why MQ-9B SkyGuardian and SeaGuardian are a number one choice for a growing number of nations.
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Unmanned systems already have transformed warfare, intelligence and other national security applications.
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Maintain real-time situational awareness in key locations with advanced unmanned aerial systems.
By General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
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The new era of military and security operations in the Indo-Asia Pacific region depends more than anything else on one key asset: insight.
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What Army leaders want out of future battlefield systems is a stable hardware enabled by powerful software that makes it easy to upgrade, integrate accessories and accomplish their tasks.
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