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U.S. Air Force

US
gov defenseFounded 1947
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
www.airforce.com/
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Ed Dwight completed the ARPS program in 1963 and was recommended by the U.S. Air Force for the NASA Astronaut Corps but was not selected for NASA.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 19, 2024Blue Origin completes 25th mission to space with six crew onboard

Ed Dwight is a 90-year-old former U.S. Air Force pilot who was selected in 1961 to be the first Black astronaut candidate by the Kennedy administration.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 19, 2024Blue Origin resumes crewed New Shepard suborbital flights

Ed Dwight completed the ARPS program in 1963 and was recommended by the U.S. Air Force for the NASA Astronaut Corps but was not selected.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 15, 2024New Shepard’s crewed NS-25 mission aims at May 19

Tomorrow.io has secured about $20,000,000 in contracts from the U.S. Air Force and the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit to support development of commercial space-based weather sensors.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceTechnical ProductMay 14, 2024Tomorrow.io gets DoD contract to launch two microwave weather sensor satellites

The U.S. Air Force ordered more than 100 T7 robots to support explosive ordnance disposal missions worldwide.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 13, 2024UK MOD selects L3Harris T4 eobots for explosive ordnance disposal missions

David Salvagnini served in the U.S. Air Force for 21 years and retired in May 2005 as a communications and computer systems officer.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 13, 2024NASA’s first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer is an expansion of current Chief Data Officer’s role

The Department of the Air Force EIS will examine using Space Launch Complex 37 and a proposed new site SLC-50 located between SLC-37 and SLC-40 for Starship launches.

Mentioned as: the department of the air forceTechnical ProductMay 10, 2024FAA to begin environmental review of Starship launches from Kennedy Space Center

Plumb questioned the rationale for transferring the GMTI mission from the Air Force to intelligence agencies solely because it utilizes space.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 10, 2024Pentagon space policy chief weighs in on disputes over battlefield intelligence

AFWERX selected Solstar Space for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract worth $1,248,735 to address challenges for the Department of the Air Force.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipMay 9, 2024Solstar Space awarded million$ USSF contract for Slayton Wideband Space Communicator

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated that the service is seeking a distributed architecture that blends satellites, drones, and data networks for comprehensive ground surveillance.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 8, 2024Military surveillance constellation fuels debate over who calls the shots

The Department of the Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office are developing the space sensors for GMTI.

Mentioned as: Department of the Air ForceTechnical ProductMay 8, 2024Military surveillance constellation fuels debate over who calls the shots

The Department of the Air Force began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 7, 2024Assured Space wins AFWERX’s $1.25M contract to advance Space Domain Awareness for Department of the Air Force

The SBIR Phase II contract awarded to Assured Space Access focuses on sensor technologies to advance Space Domain Awareness and deliver solutions addressing Department of the Air Force challenges.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 7, 2024Assured Space wins AFWERX’s $1.25M contract to advance Space Domain Awareness for Department of the Air Force

The Air Force Research Laboratory launched the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program in 2018 to explore augmenting military communications with commercial satellite internet.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralMay 3, 2024Air Force project blends military and commercial space networks

Portal Space Systems developed its solar thermal approach building on NASA and U.S. Air Force work from the 1990s and early 2000s and incorporating additively manufactured components using new alloys.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceOrg RelationshipApr 30, 2024Portal Space Systems unveils plans for highly maneuverable spacecraft

In summer 1977, Lazy Cat was assembled in Danbury, Connecticut, and shipped to Patrick Air Force Base in Florida.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralApr 29, 2024Lazy Cat on a mountaintop

Colonel Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of the Air Force, delivered the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas on 2024-03-08.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralApr 26, 2024AFWERX Director discusses role of tech startups, quick innovation in Great Power Competition

The CCA program is a U.S. Air Force effort to develop a low-cost, modular, unmanned aircraft equipped with advanced sensors or weapons that operates in collaborative teams with next-generation manned combat aircraft.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralApr 25, 2024GA-ASI selected to build CCA for AFLCMC

Live flight tests of the MQ-20 Avenger and XQ-67A will support the emerging U.S. Air Force Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACP) capability.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceTechnical ProductApr 25, 2024GA-ASI selected to build CCA for AFLCMC

Unifly, Terra Drone, and Aloft are seeking partnerships with eVTOL manufacturers, operators, vertiport operators, aviation authorities, air navigation service providers (ANSPs), and urban planners.

Mentioned as: U.S. Air ForceNarrative GeneralApr 25, 2024Unifly, Terra Drone, and Aloft Technologies to Develop Global UTM Infrastructure
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