The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has worked with the Air Force to develop an advanced telescope that already is revolutionizing space situational awareness and helping prevent potential collisions with satellites or Earth. During an event Oct. 19 in New Mexico, DARPA formally transitioned its Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) from an agency-led design and construction…
DARPA Uses Open Systems to Boost Airpower
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is unveiling a new program to boost U.S. air superiority by separating payloads such as weapons and sensors from the main air platform, and using open-system architectures to seamlessly integrate plug-and-fly modules into any kind of platform. The program, called System of Systems Integration Technology and Experimentation (SoSITE)…