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.

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