The Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve, brainchild of Pentagon CTO Heidi Shyu, has funded low-profile but high-value niche technologies the services couldn’t or wouldn’t, from robot boats to a multi-domain targeting node.
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Denmark was also approved to potentially receive thousands of GPS guidance kits for 155mm shells.
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The Swarm Carrier would be one of three drone types that Air Force Special Operations Command expects will strengthen a budding initiative to incorporate more autonomous systems in missions.
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As the nations of the Alliance mark NATO’s anniversary, they must do all they can to keep themselves and NATO ready.
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These upgrades will play a central role in the way American and allied forces fight, and are destined to keep them at the vanguard for a long time.
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MQ-9B SeaGuardian®, built by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., is leading the way in transforming naval and maritime operations around the world.
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“Mission engineering” can integrate space and ground assets to push data to the edge.
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Changing the world for good with the advancements of unmanned aircraft.
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“The deal was always [first] that we would give them two Reaper systems, bring them to Ukraine to train, but we have now sweetened that to cover spare parts, reach back technical support, and we would even include some initial transfer of data,” said C. Mark Brinkley, chief marketing and communications strategist at GA-ASI.
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Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said the Pentagon’s new Replicator initiative can help scale up a small innovation team known as Task Force 99, as well as present new opportunities to explore changes in production, training and doctrine.
By Michael Marrow
US Air Forces Central released video footage of the “reckless, unprovoked, and unprofessional behavior” after a Russian official seemed to attempt to blame American forces.
By Michael Marrow
“My assessment, and we have some evidence to support this, is that as Russia and Iran have pulled themselves closer together, that there is interest on both sides to push us out of Syria, to put a pressure campaign on us to have us leave,” a senior defense official said today.
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The Marine Corps received a newly built MQ-9A Reaper aircraft this spring from builder General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., providing intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, targeting, communications, networking, and more.
By GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC. During a military exercise in Wyoming, an MQ-9 Reaper made history by conducting its first highway landing alongside what the Air Force says is the greatest number of aircraft to pull off the tactic.
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