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Sierra Nevada Wins DIU Contract For Experimental Space Station "It does raise a lot of questions: namely, what R&D/scientific research did they want to work on that really necessitated this?," says Secure World Foundation's Victoria Samson.

Army Says Long Range Missiles Will Help Air Force, Not Compete The military services are working together on how to use long-range, land-based missiles to destroy enemy anti-aircraft defenses, says the director of artillery modernization at Army Futures Command.

Lockheed's IRST Stealth Detection Pod Passes AF Milestones "The Legion Pod uses an advanced IRST technology that gives 4th generation fighters the ability to 'see' stealth aircraft that traditional radar cannot," says an Air Combat Command spokesperson.

Boeing Positions F-15EX For ABMS, Digital Century Series Boeing's "selection, and the fact that the production line and all the technical infrastructure that is supporting the F-15EX will be in place for many years, makes the IAF's decision to procure new F-15s and perform a massive upgrade of the existing fleet easier," one senior Israeli source said.

Air Force's Roper Sparks Debate On 'Nationalizing Advanced Aviation' Industry The Air Force should field several iterations of improved drones before 2030 — not just to replace the MQ-9 — but to do everything from ISR to strike to counter-air missions.

HAC-D Cuts ABMS By $50M; Raps DoD Budget Mismanagement "Since the Department has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to disregard congressionally mandated reprogramming procedures, the Committee cannot agree to provide the additional budget flexibility the Air Force requested," the 2021 spending bill says.

Air Force Lacks 'Adequate' Plan For Next-Gen Reaper: HAC-D WASHINGTON: House appropriators are worried that the Air Force's latest try to replace the MQ-Reaper isn't fully baked and might lead to a capability gap between the service's planned divestiture of the venerable hunter/killer drone and any follow-on. "The Air Force's fiscal year 2021 budget request proposes to terminate production of MQ–9 aircraft, citing an…

The Top 5 REALLY Important NDAA Policies Mackenzie Eaglen knows Congress (after all, she did work there) and she takes readers through the most important policy debates sparked by the two versions of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Read on! The Editor.   Much of the public debate about this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has focused on the renaming…

Israelis Crafting Counter Drone System To Track, Kill Operators "We insert all the points along the flight path into a deep neural network that was trained to be able to predict the exact launch point and the location of the drone operator," Eliyahu Mashhadi of Ben Gurion University says. Testing the model with the flight simulator, the team were able to locate and target the drone operator 78% of the time.

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