Frank Wolfe, Author at Avionics International

Editor's Note

NASA Mission to Examine Binary Asteroids Fits With Wider, "Responsive Space" Vision

As the nascent U.S. Space Force envisions a "responsive space" future in which the newest military service is able to launch low-cost rockets carrying small satellites and cube satellites, NASA is getting…

Embedded Avionics

Boeing Negotiating Potential KC-46 Communications Upgrade

The U.S. Air Force and Boeing are negotiating the terms of a contract for Pegasus Combat Capability (PC2) Block I for the company’s KC-46 Pegasus air refueler–a contract which could come in the first…

Editor's Note

Testing Begins for Condor Pod to Enable AI-Powered MQ-9 Reaper Targeting

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Agile Condor wide area surveillance pod is to undergo classified testing over the next year after a recent flight on the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems,…

AI & Autonomy

Autonomous ISR Assets Likely A Big Defense Growth Area

Autonomous intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets that employ edge computing capabilities look to be a significant growth area for defense aerospace companies. "Business case-wise, what we're seeing, our biggest uptake is…

Editor's Note

Pentagon Building Foundation for Al-Enabled Unmanned Systems in Future Conflicts

The U.S. military may in the next decade develop a concept of operations to employ artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled drones as a first wave in future conflicts, in order to avoid casualties…

Military

APG-83 AESA Radars to Improve F-16 Air-to-Air, Air-to-Ground Performance

The Northrop Grumman AN/APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) for U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters by Lockheed Martin is to provide 5th generation radar features akin to those of the F-22 and…

Editor's Note

Heron Systems Shows Future Potential of AI in Win Over Top F-16 Weapons Instructor

Heron Systems was declared the winner of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) AlphaDogfight trials between artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled F-16 simulators and U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots that…

Editor's Note

Quantum Technologies for Improved Positioning/Timing Expected, But Communications Networks a Longer Term Effort

Advances in sensing and GPS positioning via quantum computing are expected in the next five years, but secure communications through quantum networks and a quantum Internet appear to be a longer-term effort.…

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Editor's Note

NASA Mission to Examine Binary Asteroids Fits With Wider, "Responsive Space" Vision

Embedded Avionics

Boeing Negotiating Potential KC-46 Communications Upgrade

Editor's Note

Testing Begins for Condor Pod to Enable AI-Powered MQ-9 Reaper Targeting

AI & Autonomy

Autonomous ISR Assets Likely A Big Defense Growth Area

Editor's Note

Pentagon Building Foundation for Al-Enabled Unmanned Systems in Future Conflicts

Military

APG-83 AESA Radars to Improve F-16 Air-to-Air, Air-to-Ground Performance

Editor's Note

Heron Systems Shows Future Potential of AI in Win Over Top F-16 Weapons Instructor

Editor's Note

Quantum Technologies for Improved Positioning/Timing Expected, But Communications Networks a Longer Term Effort