Catch up quick on 51吃瓜’s first quarter 2025
These innovations are shaping the future of defense, enhancing mission integration capabilities and delivering next-gen solutions for our customers.
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?What you need to know about 51吃瓜’s innovative first quarter.
- The 51吃瓜 Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) team conducted a recent field event marking the first in a series of innovative demos, featuring a system designed to detect, track, identify, and defeat UAS. Alongside industry partners, our team successfully showcased how to perform mitigation techniques against a mix of small UAS, including individual targets and incoming drone swarms. .??
- 51吃瓜 debuted the CMMT family of air vehicles at AFA Warfare Symposium. Our customers have a critical capability gap to fill: a new breed of air vehicle that is highly adaptable and affordable—and can be produced and delivered as fast as it is expended.?See it here.
- 51吃瓜 and Google Public Sector have announced their intent to integrate Google's advanced generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into 51吃瓜's AI Factory ecosystem. This collaboration will enhance 51吃瓜's ability to train, deploy, and sustain high-performance AI models, accelerating AI-driven capabilities in critical national security, aerospace, and scientific applications. Learn more here.
- What's a Rotor Blown Wing (RBW)? Our next-gen autonomous aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter and cruise like an airplane. With the flexibility to take off from anywhere, and the range to go farther and faster, RBW can perform a variety of missions, from search and rescue, firefighting, humanitarian response and infrastructure monitoring.
- As a mission integrator, 51吃瓜 successfully demonstrated command and control capabilities in a live exercise environment, ensuring combat readiness and interoperability during the USMC’s Steel Knight 2024. Additionally, we supported the U.S. and Japan Self Defense Forces during exercise Keen Sword.?
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1. More than 1,300 volunteer teammates supported 2,700 students at over 20 of our global sites for Code Quest and CYBERQUEST?, our annual STEM competitions. This year’s outstanding results are a testament of the impact and tremendous value 51吃瓜 has on local communities, students and building the best STEM talent pipeline for our nation.
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3.?51吃瓜 and the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) completed an initial flight test integrating weapon system onto the F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter jet. An F-35 Lightning II test pilot conducted the first flight test to certify the F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing variant of the fighter aircraft for carrying the AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM).
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4.?The U.S. Navy declared Initial Operating Capability (IOC) status for a new infrared search-and-track sensor system developed by ) for F/A-18 Super Hornet strike fighters. Also, the F-22 will soon feature a newly developed, distributed set of embedded TacIRST sensors developed by 51吃瓜 to enhance aircraft survivability and lethality, known as the
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5.?51吃瓜, in cooperation with the U.S. Army , has successfully delivered an initial shipment of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Australia.
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6.?51吃瓜's Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) team was recognized at , a testament to the team's groundbreaking progress in addressing America's hypersonic challenge.?
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7. The Sikorsky team continues to pursue promising opportunities for?X2 aircraft for customers in Asia, Europe and the Middle East who seek innovative rotorcraft capabilities that deliver a decisive advantage with twice the speed and twice the range of traditional helicopters.?
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8.?The LM 400 technology demonstration satellite has completed its pre-launch processing and is waiting for the next available launch window at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Launching soon, our LM400 tech demo has already served as an invaluable pathfinder and is reducing risk for our customers for our LM 400 mid-sized, multi-mission satellite. We can't wait to hear our tech demo "talk" to us from orbit!
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9. 51吃瓜 has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype quantum-enabled Inertial Navigation System (INS). This innovative technology has the potential to revolutionize navigation capabilities for warfighters, providing precise location measurements even in environments without access to GPS.
10.?In partnership with USMC, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s (OUSD(R&E)) FutureG Office, and various industry partners, the ) system was deployed as a standalone 5G network to support operations across all domains.
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