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Uncrewed Vehicles
Pressure on Pentagon for MUM-T solutions
11th July 2018
In the Pentagon's bid to race ahead with new technology development, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is joining forces with the other services to …
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Digital Battlespace
USAF and MIT further waveform development
24th May 2018
The US Air Force (USAF) Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MIT-LL) are working together to test advanced waveforms …
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Defence Helicopter
Leidos to provide sensor technology to AFRL
15th January 2018
Leidos has been awarded a contract by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to provide sensor technology under the Electro-Optical Combined Hyperspectral Imaging, Infrared …
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Defence Notes
Lockheed to develop fibre laser for AFRL
10th November 2017
Lockheed Martin has received a $26.3 million contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to design and produce a high-power fibre laser, the …
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Uncrewed Vehicles
AFRL testing highly-efficient diesel aircraft engine
15th August 2017
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Advanced Power Technology Office has completed a ground test series on a new highly-efficiency diesel aircraft engine, the US …
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Training
Paris Air Show: UK leads the way in synthetic wrap
22nd June 2017
Following the award of a $35 million Area Weapons Effects Simulation (AWES) upgrade contract to Cubic Global Defense earlier this year by the UK MOD, …
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Digital Battlespace
EW Europe: US explores high-power electromagnetics
30th May 2017
EW and cyber operations are increasingly considered part of a larger whole and in the foreseeable future could be joined by High Power Electromagnetic (HPEM) …
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Uncrewed Vehicles
AUVSI 2017: Air Force unveils cross-domain UAS community
11th May 2017
As part of its search for synergies across the broad UAS user community the US Air Force is attempting to establish a broad 'community of …
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Uncrewed Vehicles
Lockheed, USAF demo manned/unmanned teaming
12th April 2017
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), US Air Force (USAF) Test Pilot School and Calspan Corporation have carried out a successful …
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Military Logistics
AFRL demos RANDE system
22nd February 2017
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has demonstrated a robotic snake-arm tool designed to improve aircraft maintenance procedures.The tool, called the Remote Access Nondestructive …
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Defence Notes
AFRL, AOT agree to tech transfer
7th February 2017
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Advanced Optical Technologies (AOT) that …
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Digital Battlespace
US orders new secure intelligence-sharing network
6th January 2017
BAE Systems will work to enhance intelligence sharing capabilities for the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) under a five-year $49 million contract announced on …
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Military Logistics
US AFRL develops bendable Li-ion batteries
14th October 2016
The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Materials and Manufacturing Directorate is developing a new type of flexible lithium-ion battery that can be manipulated, bent …
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Digital Battlespace
USAF lab gets first Agile Condor pod
22nd September 2016
A new on-board processing pod system called Agile Condor has been delivered by SRC to the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the company announced …
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Military Logistics
US AFRL focuses on biofuels
31st August 2016
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is playing a key role in the development and commercialisation of biofuels as an environmentally friendly alternative fuel …
Programme Results - Defence Insight
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Military UAS - fixed-wing
Bandit (US)
Programme Background Goal As stated by Alyson Turri, the AFRL Bandit programme manager, the goal is to "develop an unmanned platform that looks like a fifth-generation ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
Off Board Sensing Station (OBSS) [USA]
Programme Background What is OBSS? The USAF envisages OBSS as an attributable, low-cost and modular manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) platform with similar capabilities to Skyborg, a programme ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small
ALUAV (India)
Programme Background Origins The development programme has its origins in the US-India Defence Technology and Trade Initiative signed between the nations in 2006 and renewed in 2015. ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small
ALUAV (US)
Programme Background Origins The development programme has its origins in the US-India Defence Technology and Trade Initiative signed between the nations in 2006 and renewed in 2015. ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) [USAF]
Programme Background Vision The USAF envisages several UAVs working alongside a single-crewed aircraft, such as the future sixth-generation fighter or the F-35. Each uncrewed platform would perhaps host ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
Skyborg [USA]
Programme Background Programme Intention Skyborg is one of three USAF Vanguard programs outlined in the Air Force Science and Technology 2030 initiative. The program intends ...
Equipment Results - Defence Insight
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Data links
QNT
The QUINT Networking Technology (QNT) programme is intended to develop robust, affordable, miniature networked data link technologies suitable for use on weapons and by tactical ...
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Data links
TTNT
The Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) programme is intended to develop, evaluate and demonstrate reconfigurable, affordable, robust, interoperable and evolvable communications technologies to support emerging ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing
XQ-67A
In February 2024, GA-ASI first released images of the XQ-67A, a drone developed as part of a contract to support the USAF's Off-Board Sensing Station ...
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Subsystems: software
SWARM
CHI Systems worked with Lockheed Martin on a programme for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to build software models that imitate human behaviour, and ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
Demogorgon
In late October 2021, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded Kratos Unnamed Systems Division an initial $17.68 million 12-month cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to develop an Off-Board Sensing ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
Gambit (Series)
The Gambit Series are several UAV variants based around the Gambit Core, a common system containing the platform's hardware: landing gear, baseline avionics, chassis, and other essential functions. ...
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Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE
XQ-58A Valkyrie
The XQ-58A Valkyrie is a high-altitude, long-endurance, runway-independent, high-subsonic 'Loyal Wingman' UAS developed jointly by Kratos and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to be used in ...
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Air Force Test Center
The Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB, California, is Air Force Materiel Command's centre of excellence for research, development, test and evaluation of aerospace ...