Weapons Pitch day provides $30M

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - The U.S. Air Force Armament Directorate awarded more than $30 million in funding to multiple small business innovators at the recent Weapons Pitch Day. During the two-day event, a panel of Air Force leaders considered 21 proposals aimed at furthering development in the directorate’s six innovation targets, digital engineering, reach, autonomous collaboration, non-kinetic effects, sensing and communications and affordable mass. Seventeen proposals passed the gauntlet for 15 small businesses. (Source: Eglin Air Force Base, 08/04/22)