by Carl Borsani | Apr 16, 2015 | Industry News
The Pentagon is continuing to look for innovative ways to develop and buy technology to use in electronic warfare, the Defense Department’s assistant secretary for acquisition told an AFCEA luncheon on April 10. The Defense Department rolled out its Better...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 7, 2015 | Industry News
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Oh. — A new and unique Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate facility officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 17. The Distributed Sensing Research Range (DiSeRR) will allow AFRL scientists and...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 6, 2015 | Industry News
DARPA has awarded phase two contracts for the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node, or TERN, joint program with the Office of Naval Research to give small ships the ability to launch and recover medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft systems. Read more...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 6, 2015 | Industry News
In order to address the high costs and long development periods for new airborne U.S. military systems, DARPA has started the System of Systems Integration Technology and Experimentation program. Read more Source: AUVSI News
by Carl Borsani | Apr 6, 2015 | Industry News
To reduce the price of weapons and other gear by creating new solutions to old problems – or “rethink complex military systems,” as Deputy Director Steven Walker of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency puts it – is among DARPA’s focus areas for...
by Carl Borsani | Apr 6, 2015 | Industry News
The U.S. Air Force has been turning old cruise missiles into computer-destroying weapons of mass disruption. It’s known as CHAMP, or the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project. Designed to conduct non-lethal electronic attacks on cities,...