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Air Force News
September 2023
AFA NEWS: 3D Printing Can Produce Deterrence, Officials Say
By Allyson ParkEfficient production and additive manufacturing capabilities are vital to the U.S. Air Force’s transition to a modernized force, senior defense officials said. -
Defense Department
August 2023
Missing Synergy: How Defense, Commercial Sectors Can Benefit Each Other
There are very few emerging dual-use technologies where the Defense Department and the commercial sector can not only equally benefit from cutting-edge research and development but do so simultaneously. However, the commercial production of these technologies is significantly more advanced than government-led science-and-technology projects. -
Energy
August 2023
Congress Adds Energetics, Critical Chemical Provisions to Defense Bill
While the Defense Department continues to field new missiles, rockets and other munitions loaded with precision technologies, the chemicals that provide the thrust and explosive punch have remained the same for decades. Meanwhile, China has continued to experiment with more powerful energetic materials — chemicals used in explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics — which experts claim has led to China having munitions that can travel longer distances or destroy larger targets. That’s why the energetics community has been hammering Congress and the Defense Department for years to invest in research, development and production of advanced energetic materials. -
Defense Department
August 2023
Companies Ask if Pentagon's Innovation Ecosystem Is Getting Out of Hand
For years, technology companies and defense officials lamented that the Defense Department’s acquisition system — built for procuring battleships and bombers — was too complicated and cumbersome to acquire commercial technology. -
Research and Development
August 2023
Making a Moonshot Mindset for U.S. Leadership in Biotechnology
General-purpose technologies shape the destiny of nations. Francis Bacon remarked how, during the Renaissance, the printing press, gunpowder and the compass “changed the appearance and state of the whole world … first in literature, then in warfare and lastly in navigation.” We are on the cusp of another era in which not just one, but multiple technologies will transform national security, economy and society. -
Shipbuilding
July 2023
BREAKING: Coast Guard's New Icebreaker at Risk of Further Delays
By Allyson ParkThe U.S. Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter still has a long way to go before starting construction, according to a government watchdog report. -
Research and Development
July 2023
Quantum Sensors Have Potential to Replace GPS
By Jan TeglerResearchers in government and industry laboratories across the globe are in a race to refine technology and methods for detecting changes in motion and electric and magnetic fields at the atomic level. Spotting minute changes in the known properties of atoms can yield extremely precise and accurate measurements — a technique known as quantum sensing. -
Research and Development
May 2023
JUST IN: Defense Department Releases Science, Technology Strategy
The latest strategy document to roll out from the 2022 National Defense Strategy is the National Defense Science and Technology Strategy, which focuses on Defense Department’s technology priorities and the future of the research and engineering enterprise, according to the document and a senior official. -
Research and Development
March 2023
JUST IN: After 65 Years, DARPA Model Catching On with Allies
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a lot to be happy about. Two allies this week at the Pacific Operational Science & Technology Conference in Hawaii announced that they were establishing their own version of the Pentagon’s so-called “department of mad scientists.” -
Emerging Technologies
February 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: AUKUS Countries Team Up to Develop Key Quantum Capabilities
Much of the focus of the Australia-United Kingdom-United States partnership, or AUKUS, is on nuclear-powered submarines. However, the agreement’s other lines of effort to produce joint advanced military capabilities could prove just as significant.
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