Built by L3Harris, the Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System, or ATLAS, provides foundational analysis and data processing capabilities to allow the service to transition away from its 1970s-era C2 architecture.
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To succeed in future warfare likely to feature millions of unmanned aerial systems, the Pentagon should avoid getting into a one-for-one race with China and develop a quiver of options for downing many enemy drones at one time, defense and industry officials said at AFA’s ...
The Air Force should place greater emphasis on exercising and training for long range kill chains right now, rather than waiting for new technologies to make things easier, industry executives and former Air Force officers said at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference.
After more than a year of preparation, a once-obscure Air Force program office will on Oct. 1 assume management of a key effort to network forces from every military service in near real time, culminating an expansion that has placed it at the center of ...
Now that the Air Force is starting to deploy artificial intelligence operationally, service leaders are grappling with AI’s limitations—not just what it can and cannot do, but the extensive data and technical and human infrastructure it needs to work.
From cathode ray tubes of the past to today’s digital waveguide design, Elbit America's Zero-G Helmet is built for sixth-generation aircraft.
Northrop Grumman is offering a revamped Model 437 aircraft as a “playground” testbed for developers of autonomy flight software, hoping to answer industry demand for more and faster testing of their technology.
The key to the longest-range kill chains is to shorten the distance data has to travel by collating and processing it as close as possible to the place it is generated, a panel of industry experts and executives said at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber ...
“The Trump administration and the Department of War deserve commendation for revising their fiscal 2026 budget submission, which sought to cancel the E-7 airborne early warning and control aircraft. By reversing that decision, the administration has now addressed a looming capability gap and deepened NATO ...
