A Forecast International blog about the arms trade, geopolitics, defense and security, and military spending.
Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the small Space Rapid Capabilities Office (Space RCO) brings space capabilities to the U.S. military with speed. Accessing space is traditionally a long process with …
To Space with Speed Read Moreby Bill Ostrove, Space Systems Analyst, Forecast International. Alta Devices, founded in 2007 in Sunnyvale, California, manufactures single-junction solar cell technology. The company’s largest market is the UAV market, and it …
Alta Devices Enters Growing Smallsat Market With Unique Solar Panel Technology Read Moreby Bill Ostrove, Space Systems Analyst, Forecast International. Accion Systems is developing an electric propulsion system for small satellites. As the number of small satellites built and launched increases each …
Accelerating the SmallSat Propulsion Market: Interview with Accion Systems CEO Natalya Bailey Read Moreby Stuart Slade, Senior Naval Systems Analyst, Forecast International. Sea-Air-Space Symposium, Washington – One of the topics that invariably comes up at a meeting of naval-oriented people concerns the iniquities …
We Should Never Have . . . Read MoreBy Matthew Beres, Airborne Retrofit & Modernization Analyst, Forecast International. These days you couldn’t swing a dead cat in a community college or magnet school without hitting a 3-D printer. …
Steep Angle of Climb for Aerospace 3-D Printing Read Moreby Dan Darling, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. A long-awaited contract for the Turkish Long-Range Air and Missile Defense System (T-LORAMIDS) now appears further away than ever. For a …
Turkey’s T-LORAMIDS Missile Defense System Edges Ever Further Away Read Moreby C. Zachary Hofer, Electronic Systems Analyst, Forecast International. The announcement of the successful manufacture of a viable non-mechanical, phased-array, electro-optical microchip as part of DARPA’s SWEEPER program is a …
On Integrated Phased-Array Electro-Optics – A Landmark Announcement Read More