Air Force Research Laboratory

And, you know, we do between three and four on-site tests at our fleets per year.

We also were really lucky to be hosted by AIS, which is Assured Information Security, and the Air Force Research Labs, AFRL, in Rome, New York.

They had that Class A truck that you saw in the video, and they hosted us on the apron at Griffiths Air Force Base, which is a nice closed test course.

So like these tests are really hard to organize because you have to get somebody who owns a truck.

And anomaly detection is, at the moment, one of our biggest use cases.

So we're working with Air Force Research Labs, AFRL, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

We're on satellites on the ground, so they have flat sats.

They can inject faults, and they're testing their rules-based anomaly detection against ours.

Um- But, um, but yeah, basically what he's saying there is, a-again, Neil McCaslin, uh, you know, head of Air Force, was, is it Air Force Science and, uh, Technology?

Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-

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IEVM has engaged with government customers around this concept.

The Air Force Research Laboratory and the United States Space Force have both shown interest in responsive space launch as a strategic priority.

Commercial customers care about flexibility for different reasons.

Orbit selection, launch timing, price.

Spent a few years at Tinker Air Force Base at the Air Logistics Center there.

Went to Special Operations Command where... met and worked with Kevin for a couple years, and then went to Space and Missile Systems Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, relocated to AFRL, still in Albuquerque, had a stint at Department of Energy before arriving here at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado.

So a 12-year stint, made quite a few rotations in that period, had a lot of great experiences as a contracting officer and now as a contract manager.

So, OK, so by the way, AFRL is Air Force Research Laboratory.

And so that's the research side.

So so you did operational stuff at Tinker and then you did some operational stuff at SOCOM.

I think you also did some R&D there, if I remember correctly.

And then you had research and development stuff at AFRL and then Department of Energy.

Yeah, scientists are mysteriously disappearing, and now US congressmen are looking for answers.

Within a span of eight months, two major figures in the Air Force Research Lab vanished without a trace.

Monica Reza, a rocket scientist, went missing while hiking in Los Angeles back in June.

And retired Air Force Major General William Neal McCaslin, who reportedly oversaw classified space weapons programs and has been described as a, quote, UFO expert, disappeared from his home on February 27th.

But it's the first time I've seen this in a while.

There has been a project that AFRL was working on a decade ago called the Miniature Self-Defense Munition.

It was a slightly different concept.

In the sense that it was basically the size of one-third the size of an AIM-9, so you could put three of them on the same pylon as an AIM-9 and use those as essentially if your laser countermeasure didn't work or your chaff countermeasure didn't work or jamming didn't work, you could launch this little interceptor and try to shoot down the incoming surface-to-air missile at you or an air-to-air missile at you.

So that was the idea with that.

I don't know if these are exactly the same idea.

By the way, the AFRL is moving forward, not even just the AFRL, the Air Force itself is moving ahead with the follow-on essentially to MISDEM, which is this new PAX-D concept, the Platform Agnostic Kinetic Self-Defense Weapon

that they want to put on their tankers.