Jane Edwards

Boeing and Huckworthy have forged a partnership through the Defense Department’s Mentor-Protege Program. Boeing’s commercial satellite services business will mentor Huckworthy on how to further commercialize the latter’s Traveller line of tactical communications and technology platforms to the government sector as well as compete for prime and subcontracts under a three-year agreement, Huckworthy said Monday. […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a Proposers Day on Sept. 20 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss the microsystems technology office’s mission and three technical areas that MTO aims to address in the field of microelectronics. DARPA said Friday those areas of interest include the need to control and exploit the electromagnetic spectrum, development […] More

Inventor David Findley has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a three-dimensional printing method that works to produce a diamond object through the use of a pre-ceramic polymer with a nanoparticle filler. USPTO said Lockheed Martin serves as the patent’s assignee. The method involves the placement of alternating layers of […] More

The U.S. Air Force has begun to update its fleet of F-15 aircraft in an effort to maintain air superiority over China’s J-10 fighter jet, keep the fleet in service through mid-2040s and support F-22, F-35 and other fifth-generation platforms, Scout Warrior reported Thursday. Maj. Rob Leese, a spokesman for the Air Force, told the publication […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked vendors to provide information on mobile layered defense platforms and related components designed to defend mobile and fixed naval and land-based forces against threats posed by small unmanned aircraft systems. DARPA said in a request for information posted Aug. 11 on FedBizOpps it is interested in scalable systems, […] More