In 1977,
Star Wars blew away audiences with faraway visions of lightsabers, droids and holograms. Decades later, has any of the franchise s iconic technology come even close to becoming real?
There are few film lines that are more iconic than may the Force with you. Say it a few times fast (or make a young child say it a few times) and it can sound like may the Fourth be with you.
Apparently enough people said it this way that now May the Fourth, May 4, is the designated day for celebrating all things
Star Wars.
The year 2021 especially is a big year, as it s the 44th anniversary of the US premiere of the first
Critical Update: What Platform One Brings to the Pentagon’s Software Game Air Force personnel prep open software architecture orchestrated by Kubernetes to fly on a U-2 Dragon Lady at Beale Air Force Base, California, in September 2020. uis A. Ruiz-Vazquez/U.S. Air Force Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox.
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Air Force Chief Software Officer Nicolas Chaillan and industry experts explain how Platform One is eliminating barriers to entry for DevSecOps teams.
Pockets of software expertise and innovation are popping up all across the Defense Department: The Navy’s Black Pearl soft-launched last fall and Army Futures Command’s Army Software Factory gathered its first cohort of soldiers in January, joining the likes of the Air Force’s Kessel Run and Kobayashi Maru.
If you or someone you know is even remotely a Star Wars fan, you know May 4th is sort of a holiday that plays along with the phrase May the force be with you from the movies.
As the unofficial holiday in full swing, both the Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Transportation are having a little Star Wars fun while passing along some important safety messages with some of their electronic road signs.
While tongue-in-cheek road signs have become somewhat of a norm in both Minnesota and Wisconsin on those electric roadways signs. While this isn t the first time they ve done this, here are their 2021 offerings shared via social media.
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Advanced C2 software suite clears critical USAF milestone
03 May 2021
by Carlo Munoz
An early variant of a new, advanced suite of combat management tools and software under development for the US Air Force (USAF) has cleared a critical milestone, paving the way for the system’s eventual deployment to combat zones around the world.
Officials at Air Combat Command and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCM) declared the Kessel Run All-Domain Operations Suite (KRADOS) for the Air Operations Center Weapon System (AOC WS) as having cleared the “minimal viable product” technology threshold. This allows the nascent variant of the system to be deployed “in order to rapidly advance its basic capabilities to a more complete operational package”, according to a joint statement in April. Kessel Run is a technology incubator within AFLCM, tasked with rapid development of combat technologies and reforming software acquisition within the air service.