Integrated Capabilities

AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT EXPERIMENTATION
Our Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office’s Rapid Dragon is taking palletized munitions to the next level. Watch to learn more about how this system is testing the feasibility and operational advantages of airdropping long-range, palletized munitions form exiting airlift platforms. Lockheed Martin courtesy video, shown at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber (ASC) Conference.
Success Stories
GRASSHOPPER
A cost-efficient, air-dropped, autonomously-navigated glider that delivers material to operators on the ground. The program...
AERRES
APP ENABLED RAPIDLY REPROGRAMMABLE EW/EMS SYSTEMS The Air Force Research Laboratory Strategic Development Planning and...
GLOBAL LIGHTNING
MULTI-CONSTELLATION SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS GLOBAL LIGHTNING PROVIDES ROBUST SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS BY: Connecting to the...
AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT EXPERIMENT (AAx)
AFRL IS WORKING WITH INDUSTRY PARTNERS TO ADVANCE TACTICAL AUTONOMY The Autonomous Aircraft Experiment is an Integrated...
PreVAIL
VEHICLE TRACKING WITH COMMERCIAL ASSETS AT THE TACTICAL EDGE/PREDICTIVE VEHICLE ACTIVITY FOR IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION...
GLADIATR
GUN LAUNCHED AREA DEFENSE INTERCEPTOR AGAINST THREATS AND RAIDS (GLADIATR) OFFERS LOWER-COST, HIGH-MOBILITY BASE DEFENSE The...
NASAMS EXPERIMENTATION
TRIDENT ELDING 2022 WHAT IS IT? The Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) Office evaluated...
UNMANNED LONG-ENDURANCE TACTICAL RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT (ULTRA)
INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, RECONNAISSANCE DOMINANCE INEXPENSIVE LONG ENDURANCE UNMANNED AIR SYSTEM (UAS) WHAT IS ULTRA? The...
THE INTEGRATED WARFIGHTING NETWORK: EDGE CONNECT
DELIVERING WARFIGHTERS MORE ROBUST AND RELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS IN THE FIELD The Integrated Warfighting Network (IWN) is a...
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