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    A CMV-22B Osprey lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) in 2024.
    Sensors

    Navy orders five more CMV-22B tiltrotor aircraft and avionics with radar for carrier-on-board-delivery

    John Keller
    April 2, 2025
    The V-22 Osprey uses tiltrotor technology to combine the vertical performance of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing aircraft.
    Army National Guardsmen load charges into the tube of an M-109A6 Paladin 155-millimeter self-propelled howitzer at National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif.
    The Air Force EC-37B Compass Call aircraft offers electromagnetic attack (EA) capabilities in support of U.S. and coalition air, surface, and special operations forces.
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    Rydberg-based technologies have high sensitivity, fragility, and technical complexities, and have problems that have impeded rapid maturation.
    Navy sailors conduct undersea warfare operations aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115).
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    Many bus-based military systems are vulnerable to cascading implicit trust attacks, and system recovery is hindered by the lack of available forensic information

    Defense Executive

    Draper Lab is a longtime supplier of navigation and guidance systems for U.S. strategic conventional and nuclear weapons
    SABER seeks to build an AI research group to assess AI-enabled battlefield systems for their vulnerabilities to enemy cyber attack.
    U.S. Army soldiers hook up a M777 howitzer during a targeting exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif.
    A U.S. Navy MQ-4C assigned to Unmanned Patrol Squadron 19 Triton takes off from the flightline at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, in 2022.
    The BAE Systems Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle can accommodate new capabilities as enabling technologies evolve.
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    Government personnel must be able to perform maintenance on the battery, and its voltage interface range must be 210 to 355 volts DC, and be scalable to 1000 volts DC.
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    Wafer bonding onto compatible substrates is the critical step for integrating single-crystal thin films into multifunction devices.
    An F-35 conducts the first flight test last January to certify the F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing variant for carrying the AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)
    Sensors

    Lockheed Martin to provide additional LRASM and JASSM long-range precision-guided air-to-surface missiles

    John Keller
    March 24, 2025
    The JASSM has standoff range to keep air crews well out of danger, while stealthy airframes makes the smart munitions extremely difficult to defeat.
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    North Carolina State joins RTX Raytheon and SRI International on the DARPA Heterogenous Adaptively Produced Photonic Interfaces (HAPPI) program
    Computers

    North Carolina State joins Raytheon, SRI on photonic chip-to-chip interconnects job for optical computing

    John Keller
    March 21, 2025
    HAPPI focuses on 3D chip optical links and the ability to provide several routing planes within a photonic integrated circuit or photonic interposer.
    U.S. Army mechanized cavalry are escorted by observer controllers after completing field testing of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV).
    Sensors

    Army asks BAE Systems to build new armored combat vehicles and vetronics for periodic technology upgrades

    John Keller
    March 20, 2025
    The AMPV is to replace the Army’s Vietnam-era M113 family of combat vehicles, and will back-up the BAE Systems M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
    Diego Garcia Tracking Station (DGS) is one of the seven worldwide satellite remote tracking stations in the Satellite Control Network (SCN).
    Sensors

    Space Force picks Serco to operate and maintain space surveillance for high-orbit satellites and space junk

    John Keller
    March 20, 2025
    Each GEODSS site uses three one-meter telescopes with sensitive digital cameras to keep track of high-altitude space objects.
    U.S. Air Force cyber security technicians review work orders at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Ariz., who help safeguard operational and communications security for computer and phone systems.
    Trusted Computing

    Wanted: military systems to benefit from mathematical methods software development for cyber security

    John Keller
    March 19, 2025
    Sought are military systems that could benefit from software based on formal mathematical methods to verify that systems act in ways that are intended.