The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has celebrated a milestone achievement for the State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging (SHIP) Program under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) with the delivery of the first SHIP prototype devices from Intel and Qorvo to BAE Systems, Inc.

Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the military industry by providing secure, efficient data sharing and storage solutions. It has the potential to solve major problems in military logistics, such as tracking supplies, managing personnel records, and ensuring data security.

The Aerospace industry as it relates to the Department of Defense is a field involving designing, manufacturing, and operating vehicles that travel in aerospace, which includes missiles, spacecraft, rockets, and satellites.

Industrial technology has always played a critical role in the defense sector. In recent years, additive manufacturing has begun to play an even more critical role in weapon design and prototype development. This is due to the many advantages that additive manufacturing offers over traditional manufacturing methods.

As the Department of Defense (DoD) continues to rely on contractors to support its mission, it's important to understand the difference between traditional and non-traditional contractors and how they both influence the way innovation makes its way towards production.

Biotech research is shaping the world. It is an important part of military operations, too. While biotechnology can be destructive, it has phenomenal healing abilities too. Here are a few examples of biotechnology in military operations and how it’s keeping citizens safe.

Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), managed by National Security Technology Accelerator has awarded $18 million to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) for the Enigma prototype project. The Enigma project will support Space Systems Command (SSC) in building the USSF’s digital backbone in support of the acquisition mission.

Russia is amping up is hypersonics weapons campaigns against Ukraine. North Korea recently claimed it has tested their own fleet of hypersonic missiles, a claim that has been deemed credible. Top U.S. generals openly state that China’s hypersonic developments are “very concerning”.

We are witnessing a democratization of space, which brings with it the challenge of finding paths to continue maintaining American dominance in space. As Chinese launch rates increase exponentially, securing space technology by slow, outdated acquisition processes will not be enough for the United States to remain dominant in the space territory.

Did you know that the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), Space System Command’s Other Transaction Agreements (OTAs) vehicle, has awarded nearly $2 billion in government contracts since its inception? And did you also know that 60 percent of those contracts include new, non-traditional defense innovators?

The Additively Manufactured Prototypes (AMP) for Hardware Technology Protection (HTP) has been awarded utilizing the Strategic & Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems (S²MARTS) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) vehicle. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division has awarded $1.6 Million to Mercury Systems, Raytheon, Charles Stark Draper, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Lockheed Martin.

The United States is in a hypersonic race against two of the world’s most advanced militaries, Russia and China. With the potential that Hypersonic technology holds, we must consider the impact of it in the hands of other nations.