Intelligence Community and Space Force challenges intersect and require closer collaboration
“Mission engineering” can integrate space and ground assets to push data to the edge.
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The national security space enterprise is being modernized and it’s happening from the ground
Digital engineering and modern tools and processes offer near-term opportunities to improve satellite mission planning, data processing, command and control, and cybersecurity.
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
DARPA is playing both sides of the ball with both offensive and defensive hypersonics
HAWC and Glide Breaker are DARPA’s offensive and defensive hypersonic programs, respectively, and their program managers discuss what’s been done and what’s next.
Pentagon needs to prioritize hypersonic defense, not offense: CSIS
"You really need to worry about the tactical things. You really need to defend your surface ships, air bases, all that stuff," NDIA's Mark Lewis said.
DARPA Hypersonic Cruise Missile Prototype Flies At Last
The goals of the test were "vehicle integration and release sequence, safe separation from the launch aircraft, booster ignition and boost, booster separation and engine ignition, and cruise," DARPA said today, adding that the "primary test objectives were met."
Joint US-Australian Hypersonic Cruise Missile Moves Ahead
SCIFiRE is aimed at maturing an air-breathing hypersonic conventional cruise missile launched from either a fighter or a bomber.
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
SMC Eyes MEO Sats For Missile Tracking
Space Force is actively considering whether its future missile warning and tracking satellites should be stationed in a wider range of orbits than in the past to improve the network's accuracy and resiliency, an SMC official says.
Did Russia Test Hypersonic Missile From Syria? Israel May Know
Some Israeli observers say the missile test is part of Moscow's effort to gain a very strong presence in the Mediterranean. For example, they say that in recent days the Russian Air Force and the Russian Navy performed a joint combat drill just 30 km from the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, is currently in the eastern Mediterranean near Cyprus.
SDA Demos Spotlight Tech Hurdles To JADC2 Backbone
Two of the experiments, each involving two satellites, are focused on laser links: one between satellites themselves; the other from satellites to a MQ-9 Reaper drone on the ground.
MDA Sees EW, Cyber For Future Missile Defense
"The future will be a mix of kinetic and non-kinetic. It will be a mix of hard kill and soft kill, because of where the threat is going to. The threat will drive us to do something different," says Vice Adm. Jon Hill, who heads the Missile Defense Agency.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
B-52 Could Get New Hypersonic Missile: Global Strike Commander
"Certainly, we're in the in the conversation for the HACM as that gets developed," Global Strike Command head Gen. Timothy Ray said.
Hypersonic Debates Shaped By Politics: Aerospace
"In some ways, it's too early to say 'game changer,' or 'nothing.' And I would say, just to put it starkly, each of those positions is probably likely to be untrue or inaccurate," CSBA's Tom Mahnken says.
Hypersonics, Unmanned Ship Teaming Ahead for Zumwalt Destroyer
Navy officials said this week that the destroyer, which still hasn't been deployed almost five years after she was christened, might find a place in the fleet after all.
NGAD Likely To Carry AI Copilot; Next Step Certifying Them Flight Ready: Roper
The Air Force's new AI copilot could next be flown by a Skyborg drone, says AF acquisition czar Will Roper.