Missile warning satellite rendering (Credit: Raytheon.) Space Force drops Raytheon from MEO missile-warning satellite effort The decision was made “because the RTX Epoch 1 development effort was facing significant cost growth from the original agreement baseline, projecting slips to the launch schedule,… Jun 14, 2024 By Mikayla Easley
KuRFS and Coyote provide the detect and defeat components of the U.S. Army’s counter-UAS solution, called LIDS: the Low, slow, small, unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System. (RTX image) Army buys 600 additional Coyote counter-drone weapons amid attacks on US troops The Coyote is a ground-launched, radar-guided interceptor. Feb 9, 2024 By Jon Harper
Illustration of DARPA’s “Energy Web Dominance – Resilient distribution of battlespace energy” concept (DARPA image) DARPA picks vendors to help develop ‘wireless energy web’ for drones, other military forces The first phase of the agency's Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program is kicking off. Sep 8, 2023 By Jon Harper