Tongdao Think Tank 2024-03-01 10:47 Beijing.
According to a recent report by Defensescoop.com, the U.S. Air Force has hired Fuse Energy Technologies, a state-based fusion energy start-up, to provide nuclear effect testing capabilities, aiming to improve operators' tactical survivability and adaptability.
Broadly speaking, nuclear effects testing refers to an assessment of how an object reacts to nuclear output. Since 1992, when the United States stopped full-scale underground nuclear testing, these assessments have been carried out through technical simulators.
Through the recently awarded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract announced Wednesday, FUSE is working with Innovation Center AFWERX and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to design and refine new nuclear effects testing options for military personnel.
The current nuclear ** simulator is outdated and outdated. They are also oversubscribed. The threat profile has also changed. FUSE will provide a modern threat simulator and increase test availability at a fraction of the cost. J.C. Btaiche, CEO and founder of FUSE, said.
Btaiche noted that this is "a modest contract that will allow us to step into [$127 billion] across [the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy] record program for nuclear simulation and effects testing and fusion pulse power, authorized over the next five years." ”
The company has already demonstrated several pulsed power prototypes. With this contract, we aim to further prototype other solutions in the electromagnetic spectrum.
"The likelihood of a nuclear war is now higher than ever," Btaiche said. Russia is demonstrating its strategic nuclear capabilities more actively, and we need to make sure we are ready. ”
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