Anduril Industries announced it is planning futuristic factories that will build weapons the way disruptive startups like SpaceX and Tesla have built rockets and cars. The company has raised $1.5 billion for the facilities, which will focus on low-cost autonomous systems, including Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
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The Department of the Air Force officially established the new Integrated Capabilities Office last week, completing one of the first of two dozen moves announced in February to “re-optimize" the Air and Space Forces for Great Power Competition with China.
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The B-2 bomber fleet is now using an open mission systems architecture that will accelerate the speed with which it can be equipped with new weapons and cuts software update time from years to weeks.
A B-52 maintainer at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., designed a new tool that shaves hours off the phase inspection process, delighting his fellow knuckle busters.
The Enterprise Test Vehicles being evaluated by the Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit are chiefly aimed at exploring modular technologies and rapid manufacturing approaches, not necessarily producing a weapon, Pentagon officials said. But the door is open to such an outcome if the program ...
The Ukraine war has taught that speedy countermeasures, flexible funding and exploiting off-the-shelf commercial technology are crucial to equipping forces for modern conflict, policy veterans of the Pentagon and Congress said on a CNAS webinar.
Four companies will explore rapidly- and mass-produced drone concepts under the Enterprise Test Vehicle program being conducted by the Air Force’s Armament Directorate and the Defense Innovation Unit. The concepts, which are to fly this summer, are to make use of commercial, off-the-shelf, or easy-to-obtain ...