Senior defense officials are putting the final touches on the first official Security Classification Guidance to direct what can and cannot be disclosed publicly about the Pentagon’s high-stakes Replicator initiative, DefenseScoop has learned.
Since Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks launched Replicator in August 2023 — as the U.S.
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On October 13, 2021, Star Trek actor William Shatner boldly went where no one older had gone before: space. At 90 years and 205 days old, Shatner flew a sub-orbital spaceflight aboard Blue Origin NS-18. However, on May 19, 2024, Shatner’s record was broken by former Air Force Captain Ed Joseph Dwight, Jr.
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On September 9, 1933, Dwight was born in Kansas City, Kansas where he attended grade school at Our Lady of Perpetual Help. At the age of 4, Dwight used orange crates to build himself a toy airplane.
FILE: Brig. Gen. Michael Conley, addresses Air Commandos during a promotion ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, June 8, 2020. (Airman 1st Class Blake Wiles/U.S. Air Force).
Air Force Brig. Gen. Michael E. Conley is poised to leapfrog from being a one-star general to three stars if he is confirmed as the new leader of Air Force Special Operations Command, or AFSOC.
If the Senate approves his nomination, Conley will be promoted straight from brigadier to lieutenant general, a practice that is relatively rare but not unheard of in the Air Force.
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The Pentagon wants public feedback that could help guide the development of policies, initiatives and resource distribution to support the defense industrial base in integrating AI into the systems it produces.
The query is slated to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register.
Responses will also inform a “Trusted AI Defense Industrial Base Roadmap” that officials plan to create, according to an unpublished notice filed Tuesday.
“The DoD Office of Industrial Base Resilience recognizes that the integration of AI into defense systems is pivotal to national security.
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The U.S. Air Force’s vaunted Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program closed out without ever reaching its goal of testing a laser-directed energy weapon on a fighter. This revelation came just days after the U.S. Army disclosed it was facing major hurdles with its new laser-armed variants of the 8×8 Stryker light armored vehicles. Earlier this year, the Air Force also announced it was no longer proceeding with a long-held plan to fit a laser weapon onto an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship. These are just the latest examples of U.S.
Boosting the Army’s drone and counter-drone capability and capacity is a priority for the service’s top officer. However, he told lawmakers that he’s opposed to creating a separate drone branch to accomplish that goal.
Members of a House Armed Services subcommittee are proposing that the Army establish a Drone Corps, and it included a provision in its mark for the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill that would mandate its creation.
“For us, this is a capability that’s going to be, I think, resident in every formation at every echelon.
Carl Forsling, Senior Business Development Manager for Airbus U.S. Space & Defense details the company’s plans for offering the U.S. Marine Corps an unmanned variant of the UH-72B Lakota to meet a rapid fielding requirement under the new Aerial Logistics Connector initiative. Airbus’ platform will support a rapid prototyping effort and field Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) logistics platforms by the end of the decade.
The USMC has three families of unmanned aerial systems in the logistics space.