This volume savings can be used to increase fuel and/or payload volume providing potential range, speed and affordability benefits compared to rockets, ramjets and gas-turbines.

RDEs rapidly burn fuel via a supersonically travelling detonation wave this in turn delivers high performance in a small volume. These mechanically simple engines have no moving parts making them less complex than gas turbine engines and therefore potentially lower cost and simpler to manufacture. It operates from a wall plug and uses energy to disable drones.Ī Rotating Detonation Engine, or RDE, is essentially a more compact and efficient method of creating thrust for a wide variety of military relevant systems. The system provides non-kinetic defeat of multiple targets. THOR, or Tactical High Power Operational Responder, is a counter-swarm electromagnetic weapon AFRL developed for defense of airbases. The AFRL booth will feature various technologies and programs that highlight the lab’s responsiveness to warfighters’ needs. Her panelists include David Tweedie, general manager, Advanced Products, GE Edison Works Brian Morrison, vice president and general manager, Cyber Systems and Andre McMillian, vice president, Sustainment Operations, Pratt & Whitney, Military Engines.ĪFRL programs and technologies on display Pringle will also moderate a panel discussion with members of industry entitled “Transitioning to a Wartime Posture Against a Peer Competitor” March 8, 2023, from 8:25 – 9:05 a.m. James Sumpter, AFRL chief architect officer. Gregg, a member of the Senior Executive Service and director of AFRL’s Aerospace Systems Directorate Andrea Mahaffey, AFRL chief data officer and Dr. Pringle will host a media roundtable discussion covering AFRL’s “Digital Transformation” March 7, 2023, at 4:50 p.m. “Thanks to strong partnerships with industry and PEOs, as well as harnessing the talents of AFRL’s multi-disciplinary team, technology makes it to the field faster than ever before.”

“Our goal is to place superior military capabilities into the hands of our operators,” said Maj.

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