General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems secured an award from Advanced Space to provide spacecraft and services in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Oracle spacecraft program. The General Atomics unit will construct an ESPA-Grande class satellite and conduct payload integration and space vehicle test for the spacecraft program, the energy and defense company said Thursday.  […] More

PsiQuantum will further develop the photonic approach to quantum computing under a $22.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Wednesday it will work with AFRL to design, develop and produce quantum photonic chips at GlobalFoundries’ semiconductor foundry in Malta, New York. Quantum photonic chips can process and control qubits based […] More

KBR announced on Monday that the company has received a three-year, $20 million contract to provide scientific support focused on airman readiness medical research, building on its existing research and development efforts at the Air Force Research Laboratory with an increased scope of work. “With professional services ranging from biomedical to health science, human research […] More

CAE’s U.S. business arm has secured a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a prototype of simulation software designed to support testing, training, evaluation and development of multidomain warfighting capabilities. CAE USA said Thursday it will develop a software emulator that will work to simulate a range of physical and digital threats […] More

BAE Systems’ research and development arm will help the Air Force Research Laboratory enable autonomous technologies to automatically recognize targets using machine learning. Work between BAE’s FAST Labs and ARFL is focused on ML software development in support of the Multi-Sensor Exploitation for Tactical Autonomy program, the company said Thursday. To support automatic target recognition, […] More

BlueHalo has received an $11 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide optical laser communications flight terminals and ground station that the service branch’s research arm will use on satellite service demonstration. The company said it will help the Air Force Research Laboratory develop and test several technologies for on-orbit processing of satellite […] More

A Sarcos Technology and Robotics subsidiary will develop collaborative sensing algorithms under a contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. Sarcos Defense will build a tool that would enable the Department of Defense to use unmanned aircraft systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and other autonomous and semi-autonomous platforms to detect, classify and track time-critical objects […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory has selected BAE Systems to develop warfighting models that the U.S. military can employ to overwhelm adversaries with complexity. The company said Wednesday it secured a three-year, $2.8 million Complexity Modeling in Multiple Domains contract to create complex attack techniques to confuse adversaries and hinder their ability to respond to […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ Pratt & Whitney business has secured a contract to demonstrate a rotating engine detonation concept for the Air Force Research Laboratory in an effort to create an engine capable of supporting higher-Mach flight speeds. Pratt & Whitney said Thursday it will work with Raytheon’s missiles and defense business and the Raytheon Technologies Research […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate seeks white papers on research efforts focused on structural material and process technology applicable to U.S. Air Force and Space Force needs. AFRL said Tuesday in a SAM.gov notice it issued a hybrid advanced research announcement for the Experiments, Prototypes, Research and Evaluation Supporting Systems initiative, […] More

Valid Eval, an online evaluation software-as-a-service provider, has received a task order to support the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in assessing and selecting sources of directed energy systems. Under the task, the company said Tuesday it will implement large-scale evaluation services to help traditional source selection technical evaluators within AFRL’s Directed Energy Technology Experimentation […] More

Stratolaunch will evaluate the viability of hypersonic flight testing for the Air Force Research Laboratory as part of its contract with the research organization. The company said Tuesday it will work with Booz Allen Hamilton to examine how this kind of testing can support a variety of Air Force experiments on a frequent basis. Stratolaunch […] More