No Denying It: The Air Armament Center says it plans to solicit industry later this month to conduct a study on how to integrate the Active Denial System on to Mine Resistant Armored Personnel vehicles. ADS is a millimeter wave, nonlethal directed energy weapon created by Raytheon. The Air Force Research Lab was involved in its development and testing during a five-year OSD-sponsored advanced concept technology demonstration that concluded in September 2007. That effort yielded a Humvee-based ADS prototype and a second experimental design less mobile. Efforts are now shifting to the operationalization of the ADS, with AAC playing the lead role within the Air Force in designing variants that could be produced and fielded in numbers. The ADS-MRAP study is expected to run from May through August.
Pentagon Releases Cost of Living, BAH Rates for 2026
Dec. 30, 2025
The Pentagon will pay cost of living allowances to 127,000 service members in the continental U.S. in 2026, an increase of 66,000 members in 2025. Airmen and Guardians across the U.S. will also receive an average increase of 4.2 percent for their Basic Housing Allowance, compared to the 5.4 percent…
