Northrop Grumman has been chosen to perform flight tests for the Air Force’s Multi-Spectral Sensing Technologies Research and Development (MuSTeR) program. MuSTeR is developing RF and electro-optical sensors for offensive, defensive, and integrated offensive and […]
The U.S. Navy has successfully demonstrated the use of a prototype airborne mine countermeasure system. The test involved a BAE Single-system Multi-mission Airborne Mine Detection (SMAMD) System aboard an MQ-8C Fire Scout helicopter drone. The […]
The Pentagon’s Defense Science Board (DSB) recently formed a new task force – named The Strategic Options Task Force – to review the potential for leveraging emerging technologies and approaches to “rebalance intervention cost and […]
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has contracted with Lockheed Martin to construct the nation’s first megawatt-scale long-duration energy storage system – with the goal of achieving energy resilience. “GridStar Flow” is an innovative redox […]
The Army’s Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) has issued a request for the Burn Digital Assessment project (BDA). BDA is seeking to develop a rugged handheld device that will measure the severity of burns on […]
The US Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $89.4 million contract to Dzyne Technologies to research the unmanned Small Payload Precision Air-Launched Inexpensive Delivery System (SPPAIDS). SPPAIDS is a low-cost air-deployable system that will incorporate […]
Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) recently completed a successful five-week demonstration of its Troposcatter communications system. Troposcatter is a “point-to-point,” transportable, beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) system created for the US Army. The platform offers “lower latency” and […]
Researchers at Caltech have developed a deep-learning method that can help drones cope with new and unknown wind conditions in real-time. Called Neural-Fly, the neural network teaches the drone how to survive extreme wind similar […]
DARPA has issued a formal request for information (RFI) for the Airborne Energy Well project – a method of recharging drones while in flight using laser-shooting tanker planes. Once in use, the technology is expected […]
Ghost Robotics’ robot dog – Vision 60 – has been deployed on patrol at the Tyndall Air Force base for almost two years. Vision 60 now has the capability of swimming. Vision 60 is already […]
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