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Constellation to Deliver Crucial Fire-Control Sensing Data

A new contract award advances missile defense capabilities with the incorporation of fire control-quality instruments.

The Space Development Agency awarded a key contract to El Segundo-based Millennium Space Systems to create a prototype constellation to provide fire-control against missile and hypersonic threats. Graphic courtesy of Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company

The Chip Deception: China’s Growing Leverage and America’s Onshoring Quest

As the United States seeks control of chip supply chains, China’s leverage grows due to demand for its raw materials.

A Marine heavy helicopter inserted a team of six geologists, and 16 marines and sailors providing security, as they excavated rock samples in Afghanistan in search of rare earth elements in 2010. Credit: Cpl. Ryan Rholes, U.S. Marine Corps

Rare Earths, Strategic Minerals and Chips

The Great Power Behind Chips

Domestic Battery Manufacturing: The DOE’s Race for Power

As China dominates lithium-ion battery production, U.S. Department of Energy works to improve domestic battery manufacturing and supply chains.

While China remains in the lead in the lithium-ion battery manufacturing market, the United States aims to accelerate the development and supply chain of domestic battery manufacturing. Credit: slexp880/Shutterstock

What Is Old Is New: Surface Mine Waste Presents a Possible Supply of Critical Resources

Previously mined areas may offer the United States options in the minerals race.

Half-meter-thick quartz veins cut across outcrops of granite rocks called granitic gneiss that sit on Divide Mountain along the Alaska-Yukon border. The U.S. Geological Survey is focusing larger efforts on mapping potential critical mineral resources across the country, including deposits on the surface and within mine waste. USGS photo by Jamey V. Jones III

Canada and Australia’s Differing Strategies

AI Needs of the Air Force

The service has a great demand for artificial intelligence and data management improvements to aid its operations and future capabilities.

An F-15E Strike Eagle sits on the flight line at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, in February 2021. The Air Force needs AI and automation tools to help predict demand for low-rate fail parts that are crucial to sustaining F-15 operations. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kylie Barrow

DARPA Hopes To Help Settle Quantum Computing Wild West

Only time will tell if quantum computers change the world or change nothing at all.

The state of quantum computing research can be described as the Wild West, where companies— and countries—are in a metaphorical shootout to come up with a winning technology. Credit: Art combines two Shutterstock images: Abstract sphere by Quardia and Cowboy Gunfight by Fotomicar

Chinese and Russian Legitimate Tool Attacks Mandate AI-Enabled Cyber Defenses

U.S. government and industry face heightened threats, which calls for enhanced security measures.

Cyber defenders must alter their methods to move with threat actors’ shift toward using native tools to disrupt critical infrastructure. Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock