The Defense Innovation Unit has hosted its first challenge event for uncrewed aerial systems at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. During the Blue UAS Refresh, drone
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The Department of Defense has added $160 million to the funding for its Microelectronics Commons program implementing the CHIPS and Science Act. Most of the investment — $148 million — has been
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Frank Kendall, secretary of the U.S. Air Force and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, traveled to the Sixteenth Air Force, or Air Forces Cyber, to hear and give updates on the information warfare organization. Kendall
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Leaders of the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation presented their organization’s annual operating plan, or AOP, for fiscal year 2025 on Tuesday at Defense Supply Center Richmond in Virginia. Brig. Gen. Chad Ellsworth,
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The Missile Defense Agency is conducting market research to identify qualified vendors that can support future requirements of the Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control Model-2 system. The upcoming MDA requirements include
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The U.S. Navy has conducted a flight test to demonstrate its Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station’s ability to command different types of unmanned aircraft. The Unmanned Carrier Aviation Program Office—a.k.a. PMA-268—conducted
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The Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and Navy aircrew have conducted a demonstration of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile on Nov. 5 at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The
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The Department of Defense has introduced CHAPPIE, a quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle, or QUGV, being developed for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear—a.k.a. CBRN—field operations. The U.S. Space Force said Tuesday CHAPPIE is
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The Defense Innovation Unit has released a request for information to determine the potential of creating a cooperative agreement supporting its National OnRamp initiative. According to the notice posted on Sam.gov on Nov.
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Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, discussed GEOINT artificial intelligence and advances with the NGA Maven program during a fireside chat at a four-day conference held in October
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