The US Military’s Replicator program will churn out thousands of military drones
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of war isn’t with massive platforms like aircraft carriers, it will increasingly be dominated by drones and other robot-like systems. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
This new American satellite jamming system is a game changer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our modern society relies on satellites for almost everything now, which makes them prime military targets. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A planned portable...
An AI controlled drone killed – didn’t kill its operator in battle simulations
WHY THIS MATTERS INN BRIEF You have to be very careful how you assign AI tasks because some AI’s might just do anything to accomplish their goals, including killing the human operators and destroying comms infrastructure. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
NASA’s hypersonic Rotating Detonation Engine passes first crucial tests
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Explosions are normally bad in engines, but done in the right way they are the future of jet engine design and hypersonic vehicles. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
The USAF’s Project VENOM is turning old F-16’s into drone wingmen
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In military terms over match refers to military superiority, and the US is worried it’s loosing its over match capability to China. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Hermeus’s first of a kind Chimera engine switches from supersonic to hypersonic
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF So far noone has cracked the ability to switch an engine from supersonic to hypersonic. That’s now solved. Let the hypersonic era commence! Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Lockheed Martin achieves first light of it’s latest 50kw laser weapon system
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of combat is drones and hypersonic weapons systems, so you need a new defensive weapon to counter than and light’s fast, cheap, and deadly. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
DARPA’s unveils its revolutionary CRANE X-Plane with no moving parts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flaps and aerlons create drag and increase fuel consumption on planes, but what if you didn’t need any of that? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Jetopera’s bladeless eVTOL aircraft targets 0.8 Mach
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bladeless VTOL aircraft make a lot more sense than prop based ones, but getting the technology right is very hard. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
The latest USAF report says force fields are almost here but they’re not quite sci-fi
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Force fields are the stuff of sci-fi, and while the US Military thinks they’re more drone like I and others have other ideas … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
NIST created the first atomic communications system, played games, and watched TV
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Future communications could be atom based not necessarily electromagnetic or RF based … there’s a thought. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Scientists at US...
The US military is significantly ramping up its interest in quantum communications
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF On the battlefield electronic communications are almost the key to the battle, but new quantum technologies are making it easier – and harder – to spy on the enemy so militaries around the world are ramping their investments and research. Love the Exponential Future?...
A major US led drone fleet is finally coming together in the Middle East
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There’s no way that traditional military ships can patrol the vast areas of the Red Sea so countries are building the world’s first drone fleet. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Submersible drone motherships are about to conquer their final hurdle
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to create underwater motherships that can act as the equivalent of underwater aircraft carriers for drones then you need to be able to control their docking. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
The US Navy asks for massive drone swarms to overcome future adversaries
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine trying to stop thousands of kamikaze drones – it’d be difficult to impossible which is why the US military wants them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
An autonomous Blackhawk just successfully completed its first mock rescue mission
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Helicopter crews in war time are put at high risk during search and rescue operations but now an autonomous Blackhawk could see pilots grounded. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
As Arctic tensions heat up DARPA wants to control ice
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The US military often innovate at the bleeding edge and beyond, and this is another example of out the box futures thinking that could also have commercial applications. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
The US Navy takes delivery of its first tactical laser weapon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many things you think of as sci-fi are now sci-fact and this is yet another example of how new technologies are changing the battlefield. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Researchers have invented a new kind of material that thinks for itself
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Smart materials will make a huge difference to the product we make, how we use them, and how they interact with us and the environment. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Fighter pilots take the simulators into battle to fight augmented reality foes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Simulators for training are OK and real world battle training is expensive and complex, now using Augmented Reality fighter pilots have the best of both in the real world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself...
