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By   Theresa Hitchens on February 15, 2021 at 3:14 PM DARPA’s LongShot drone, Northrop Grumman concept art WASHINGTON: DARPA plans to flight test a prototype of a novel air-launched drone — one designed to launch its own high-speed air-to-air missiles — as soon as the first half of 2024. LongShot is conceived as an autonomous, air-launched uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) that can serve as a sort of mothership, launching its own air-to-air missiles once in range of enemy aircraft. DARP...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 12, 2021 at 5:06 PM DARPA NOM4D project image WASHINGTON: DARPA’s new project to research and develop novel materials and processes for manufacturing in space — in particular on the Moon — is stirring a legal and political dust storm about what DoD can and cannot do in cislunar space under the Outer Space Treaty. “From an international perspective, DARPA doing anything on the Moon looks bad. It raises suspicions about the intentions of the U.S. space...

(MENAFN - Asia Times) Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman is wasting no time in this competition. Just two days after DARPA named it as one of three competitors for the LongShot contract, the company released an image of its concept for an air-launched unmanned aircraft system (UAS), Aviation Week reported .  Imagine an unmanned aircraft, speeding ahead of its launch aircraft, that itself can fire multiple air-to-air intercept missiles that can seek out and destroy. No pilots to risk, just ...

A Submarine That Never Runs Out of Power is Americas Latest Stealth Ammo FOLLOW US ON: United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is building a submarine that will never run out of power. According to a recent report in Forbes, the defence agency has given contracts to a company named Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Martin Defense Group to build a demonstration version of the new unmanned underwater vehicle, named Manta Ray. In order to achieve the indefinite power...

Developing techniques to protect humans — and national security — from malicious influence requires public-private collaboration in a neutral environment, a researcher argues.

DARPA Initiates “LongShot” Air-Launched Attack UAV Program Our Bureau 1668 Artist’s concept of LongShot UAV The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched LongShot program that aims to develop an air-launched unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with the ability to employ multiple air-to-air weapons. DARPA has has awarded contracts to General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for preliminary Phase I design work. The objective is to develop a novel UAV that ca...

DARPA Project Drives Simulation Technology for Off-Road Unmanned Vehicles Our Bureau 1409 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency - Simulation (RACER-Sim) project is seeking innovations in technologies that bridge the gap from simulation to the real world and significantly reduce the cost of off-road autonomy development. DARPA invites proposals for promising solutions that support these goals. While the past decade has se...

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By   Bryan Clark and Dan Patt on January 14, 2021 at 11:35 AM JADC2, Lockheed Martin image Although it is one of the US military’s highest priorities, service and industry leaders remain confused about Joint All-Domain Command and Control, variously describing it as a communication architecture, a data-sharing approach, an operational concept, or a decision-making tool. Last week the Joint Staff J-6, Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, provided much-needed clarity by characterizing JADC2 as a new decis...

Hypersonic Superweapons Are a Mirage, New Analysis Says Two scientists find revolutionary claims about the evasion of detection and defenses to be “nonsense.” A test launch of a hypersonic missile at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, in March.Credit...Oscar Sosa/U.S. Navy, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Jan. 15, 2021 Military experts call hypersonic warheads the next big thing in intercontinental warfare. They see the emerging arms, which can deliver nuclear or...