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Webcast: Next-Generation Munitions
This webcast took place on September 20, 2021 The US Air Force is expanding its hunt for next generation munitions technology as it looks to maintain uncontested supremacy over the skies. This hunt could include hypersonics as well as greater investment in missiles and precision bombs. However, as China and other near-peer adversaries scale up…
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Banding together to beat ballistic missiles
The combined, proven capabilities of Raytheon Missiles & Defense radars safeguard security. A ballistic missile attack is chaotic. In a raid scenario, dozens of these weapons can approach from all directions, traveling at supersonic and even hypersonic speeds. Adversaries can mask them, making them look like something else, all while using electronic warfare to trick…
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Three Ways JADO is Transforming the Future of Aviation
Stephanie Hill, Executive Vice President, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems Greg Ulmer, Executive Vice President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics *** Imagine a conversation with Allan and Malcolm Loughead (who later became the “Lockheed” brothers) in 1913 on the day they flew the Model-G Hydro-Aeroplane, or with aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky after his first practical helicopter…
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Weaving a digital thread for the US Air Force
Digital transformation speeds development, delivery and sustainment of innovative systems The U.S. Air Force general put it plainly: hostile nations are getting very good at fielding new technologies quickly. “Today’s adversaries are rapidly delivering new systems and are threatening and, in some cases, surpassing our capabilities,” said Air Force Materiel Command commander Gen. Arnold W.…
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Webcast: SMD Debrief 2021
This webcast took place on August 12, 2021 Facing a transformative threat landscape, U.S. security officials and industry leaders are racing to build a layered missile defense system that can identify, intercept, and eliminate any missile launched toward American soil. During this discussion, we heard about progress on these efforts and what challenges are standing…
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Keeping USS Jack H. Lucas on track: Integration of SPY-6 radar array is underway on Navy’s new guided destroyer
The U.S. Navy’s new guided missile destroyer, USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) successfully launched at Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on June 4, 2021. Raytheon Missiles & Defense is working with the shipbuilder to integrate the AN/SPY-6(V)1, also called SPY-6, integrated air and missile defense radar onto the ship. (Header Photo: Huntington Ingalls Industries)…
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Delivering Critical Data Faster, When Every Second Counts
A New Era of Networked Warfare The global security threats of today demand a connection between U.S. Armed Forces and allies unlike ever before. Soldiers face fast-moving adversaries in hard to reach locations. To fight and win in this environment will require a momentous, operational shift. The U.S. Army has responded with Combined, Joint All-Domain…
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Webcast: Missile Defense & Multidomain Operations
This event took place on May 13, 2021. Senior military officials have begun to embrace the idea that a sensor anywhere in the world could connect to a shooter at any time. But achieving this will require a series of old and new technologies, skills and proficiencies. In this discussion, we discussed why all domain…
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The Data Forge
Raytheon has developed a prototype system for managing the floods of satellite data that help generate warnings and intelligence information for combatants and eventually, civilian first responders and researchers. This system is meant to unlock the full potential of satellite data The U.S. government’s global satellite network produces a constant flood of data — petabytes…
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Webcast: Future Tools, Future Battlefields
This event took place on March 15, 2021 Threats are changing fast and adversaries are investing in advanced technologies to gain an edge. How can service leaders and industry officials help provide an advantage and what are the keys to ground force modernization in the coming years? During AUSA Global Force Next, Defense News hosted…
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