AFRL Hopes For Replicator Funding For High-Altitude Balloon Program

U.S. Army high-altitude balloon launch

U.S. Army soldiers launch a high-altitude balloon from Guam as part of an exercise in June.

Credit: U.S. Army
DAYTON, Ohio—The Air Force Research Laboratory wants to put forward a nascent high-altitude balloon program as an option for the Pentagon’s broader Replicator initiative to accelerate fielding of new autonomous systems. The program would constitute an effort to field a constellation of high altitude...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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