Threat warning and survivability in the modern battlespace
Protecting warfighters requires fast, accurate, and dependable systems that work flawlessly to military standards.
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Passive ground-based sensor networks could bolster air, missile defense resilience: CSIS
Passive sensors do not need to emit energy to find and fix targets, thus, they are harder for adversaries to find, track and target.
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Meeting modern airpower needs with faster R&D cycles for propulsion
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Hydrosat launches first payload to monitor hot-spots on Earth
The company's capability to precisely measure land surface temperatures — using data from a wide variety or Earth monitoring satellites and a software suite for data fusion — has potential military and national security applications.
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Survivability soars when the countermeasures are infrared and multispectral
IR countermeasures including missile-blinding lasers need to cover 360 degrees around a platform like Future Vertical Lift, because any gap is a vulnerability.
Hydrosat plans LEO sats to map literal hot spots for military, commercial users
CEO Pieter Fossel explained how the temperature of the ground, for instance, can be a critical factor for helicopter-borne special operations missions.
DoD Launching Experiment For Space-Based Hypersonic Missile Detection
SDA and MDA need to characterize the Earth's infrared background -- which has "a lot of complex shapes to it, clouds, land and stuff like that" -- in order to "pull out the dim signal" of a hypersonic missile, an SDA official explained.
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AI is transforming pilot training and the aircraft they fly
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
Army Adapts Aircraft EW To Protect Tanks: BAE RAVEN
Will high-tech hardware developed to protect aircraft translate to the mud and dust of ground combat?
DoD, White House Likely To Fight Chinese Monopoly on Rare Earth Minerals
With an Executive Order and a new study due soon that promises to take a hard line against Chinese imports, the Trump administration is opening a new front, while protecting the US defense industry.