In partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Lockheed Martin team, an advanced Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet engine powered the recent flight (announced […]
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MMA Design delivers solar power from space for AFRL experiment
In partnership with Northrop Grumman and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), MMA Design has developed and delivered a Flight Deployment Subsystem for AFRL’s Arachne flight experiment. Arachne uses components […]
DARPA, AFRL, Lockheed Martin + Aerojet Rocketdyne team’s second Hypersonic weapon concept accomplishes all test objectives
DARPA’s latest HAWC flight test demos mature, affordable, hypersonic systems design + manufacturing techniques The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) […]
USAF’s NTS-3 Vanguard is now closer to a 2023 launch
The Department of the Air Force’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3, or NTS-3, Vanguard program has reached another major milestone in preparation for the satellite’s launch in late 2023. Industry partner L3Harris […]
Northrop Grumman to modernize + advance the AFRL’s intelligence information gathering process
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a $406 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate (AFRL/RI) for the Intelligence Systems Infrastructure, Tools and Enhancements (InSITE) […]
General Atomics receives Advanced Space contract for AFRL cislunar spacecraft
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) is now under contract to Advanced Space LLC to build an ESPA-Grande class satellite, perform payload integration, and space vehicle test for the Air Force […]
Advanced comms development project contracted to Sabre Systems by AFRL
Sabre Systems, Inc., has been selected for a Phase III Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract for advanced communications development. Under this contract, Sabre will support the R&D, testing as […]
Eight companies join Catalyst Accelerator’s Int’l SDA cohort
Eight small businesses will come together from across the globe for the Catalyst Accelerator’s cohort focused on International Space Domain Awareness (SDA). The Catalyst Accelerator, powered by the Air Force […]
U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) opens a new high-powered microwave laboratory
U.S. Air Force and community leaders cut the ribbon for the new High-Power Electromagnetic Effects and Modeling, or HPEM, Facility at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate during […]
AFRL breaks ground on new FORTRESS space lab
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, held a ground-breaking ceremony, November 16, 2022, beginning construction on the Facility for Radiation Tolerance Research […]