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U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Jason “J.U.” Utulo, Director of Operations Experimentation, writes on a white board during the National Space Defense Center Advanced Concept Experimentation (NACE) events at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., Oct. 10, 2024. The NACE program’s mission is to rapidly iterate and improve space superiority, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and defensive cyber command-and-control processes and procedures. NACE is the NSDC’s operationally and tactically focused venue to rapidly improve its ability to execute assigned missions through experimentation, utilizing space warfighters in live-ops and tabletop exercises using current and near-operational capabilities. (U.S. Space Force photo by Bridget Bonnette)

National Space Defense Center Spearheads NACE Experiments

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The National Space Defense Center has created the NSDC Advanced Concept Experimentation (NACE) to innovate and…

Illustration of the material’s transition, with time represented from left to right. A laser pulse (left) sends the material into disorder (middle). Out of this so-called soup phase emerges a highly ordered phase called a supercrystal (right). (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

Metastable Marvel: X-Rays Illuminate an Exotic Material Transformation

A dry material makes a great fire starter, and a soft material lends itself to a sweater. Batteries require materials…

A B-52H Stratofortress bomber from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., sits on the runway at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in support of a U.S. Strategic Command bomber task force, April 17, 2021.

Securing Critical Minerals Vital to National Security, Official Says

“Secure sourcing of critical minerals is critical to the defense industrial base, which uses them to produce virtually every Defense…

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DARPA Exploring Ways to Assess Ethics for Autonomous Weapons

The Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program aims to develop benchmarks to objectively and quantitatively measure…

The NIF lasers overlap onto the millimeter-scale cylindrical silver foam target. The resultant heating creates X-rays, which are then imaged as shown on the right.

LLNL Creates World’s Brightest X-Ray Source With NIF and Novel Metal Foams

By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser and ultra-light metal foams, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have…

An EA-18G Growler, attached to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 133, launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). (Official U.S. Navy photo)

U.S. Navy Declares Initial Operational Capability for the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band System

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, MD – The U.S. Navy declared initial operational capability for the Next Generation Jammer…

In a test as part of DARPA’s NOMARS program, the USV Mariner (right) deploys a refueling probe towards the USV Ranger (left) in the first test of fueling at sea (FAS) without any human interaction required on the part of the receiving vessel. The personnel aboard the Ranger are observers only. Credit: DARPA

Automated Fueling-At-Sea Test Completed for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Program

The DARPA No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program recently completed a successful first test of at-sea refueling designed for use…

Enlisted technicians from the Navy Munitions Command (NMC) Bahrain Detachment deliver hardware and software upgrades aboard USS Indianapolis (LCS 17), September 2024, while the ship is forward deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AoR). The upgrades focus on the Surface-to-Surface Missile Module (SSMM), enhancing both its software and hardware systems. These improvements are designed to strengthen the ship’s defense posture, ensuring its capabilities remain advanced and effective during deployment.

U.S. Navy Enhances LCS Surface Warfare Mission Package with Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Capability

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Mission Modules Program Office has successfully delivered critical counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS)…

Technologist Jamie Meza guides a torpedo anchor prototype as it is lifted over a test bed at the Drop Tower facility. The anchor is being tested for use with offshore wind turbines. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

The Big Drop

Beside a 50-foot-deep pool, a 300-foot metal tower rises into the air at Sandia New Mexico. Cables and a vertical…

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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications

By leveraging cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in…

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis of Lifetime, or SPIRRAL, experiment, Nov. 4, 2024. SPIRRAL, flown by AFRL through the DOD Space Test Program, will characterize the performance of Variable Emissivity Materials, or VEMs, an approach toward solving thermal challenges for space vehicles while on-orbit. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Greg Gerken)

Revolutionizing Space-Based Thermal Systems: AFRL’s SPIRRAL Launch on SPX-31

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis…

Project team members from NSRI, UNL and JEC during kick off meeting at the Cyber-Physical Networking Lab at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2024.

NSRI, UNL Developing AI for USSTRATCOM to Maximize Electromagnetic Spectrum

As digital communication grows, the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is becoming increasingly crowded. Novel solutions for how the United States can…