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.
Airman 1st Class Marcus White-Allen concocted a story to cover up that he fired his M18 9mm pistol into Airman Braden Lovan’s chest killing him on July 20, two Airmen from F.E. Warren Air Force Base, WY testified during separate courts martial proceedings on Oct. 30-31.
