Air Force Global Strike Command is engaging with nontraditional innovators to establish a new hub for technology pursuits, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday. The STRIKEWERX facility is open for engagement with small businesses, nontraditional inventors, universities and large companies in pursuit of innovation.

STRIKEWERX stands outside Barksdale Air Force Base, strategically located near but not within the command's headquarters. The command focuses on communications, command and control and nuclear weapon support technologies.

USAF based STRIKEWERX on AFWERX, the service branch's existing innovation program that engages with multiple sectors to develop needed technologies.

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has introduced a remote sensing approach that uses a millimetre wave radar to trace subtle vibration changes from moving targets. The radar will gauge vibrations and reproduce sounds from vehicles through the use of a new algorithm, NRL said Wednesday.

"We developed these techniques to analyze the motion of moving targets at long range, which people haven’t done before," said Christopher Rodenbeck, an electrical engineer at NRL's radar division.

"We showed that if the muffler is vibrating, we can tell if a parked car is on or not. If that car is about to go into gear, we can detect a strong impulse vibration from the gear change," added Rodenbeck.

Rodenbeck noted software modifications on automotive radars will potentially allow current and future vehicles to mitigate road accidents.

Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of 16th Air Force, has said that forces need to eliminate “geographic bias” and consider location-based threats despite operating in the space of cyber domains.

Haugh told attendees at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit that adversaries like China and Russia deploy tactics such as influencing various regions through information-based or nonkinetic capabilities, C4ISRnet reported Wednesday.

He noted that the U.S. must update its warfighting structure to focus more on data-driven operations.

According to Haugh, a data-centric strategy entails the proper use of authorities to “determine what’s the best approach, whether that be from a Department of Defense (DoD) perspective or across our interagency or with our partners."

His comments come a month after Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, announced plans to establish a warfighting structure to address future battlefield needs.

Everbridge has entered a partnership with Planet, a provider of global satellite imagery data and insights, to advance satellite imagery for Everbridge’s Visual Command Center, Everbridge reported on Wednesday.

“Our partnership with Everbridge expands the way our new and existing users can combine global, high-resolution satellite imagery with effective crisis mitigation to protect people, operations and assets,” said Dina Kazzaz, head of Business Development for Planet. “These insights will allow our customers to better understand rapidly evolving conditions on the ground and respond to disasters more quickly and effectively.”

Everbridge’s command center has provided a platform for organizations to manage their operations, supply chain, IoT footprint and resiliency as part of the company’s CEM Platform. With the expansion of its satellite imagery, including advancing technology across remote areas where weather or terrain make it difficult to capture images by aircraft, Everbridge will further help governments and corporations mitigate the impact of natural and manmade disasters.

The partnership with Planet will enable Everbridge customers to effectively respond to crises such as hurricanes, floods, fires, chemical spills, cyberattacks, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Planet’s satellite data and insights will advance the visualization and orchestration component of Everbridge’s CEM Platform.

With the work under the partnership, Everbridge customers will gain access to high-resolution images of regions before and after disasters, enabling responders to pinpoint where infrastructure sustained damage, then coordinate a response. Everbridge Visual Command Center has enabled enterprises to gain situational awareness and risk resilience on an unprecedented scale.

The Everbridge CEM solution has provided an integrated, end-to-end approach that has assisted organizations assess the severity of events; determine their relevance to people, assets, customers, and supply chains; automate actions and workflows to mitigate threats and track progress; and analyze performance to improve future response.

“The addition of Planet’s satellite imagery into the Everbridge CEM solution will benefit our customers with unparalleled insights into local conditions to support a variety of high-impact customer use cases,” said Annie Asrari, senior director, Everbridge Partner Ecosystem. “Access to up-to-date satellite imagery anywhere in the world provides another valuable layer of intelligence for corporations and government customers alike.”

About Everbridge

Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order Keep People Safe and Businesses Running™. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,300 global customers rely on the Company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans.

Zscaler has announced new data protection innovations in the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange that will protect organizations in telework by securely connecting users, devices and applications, the company reported on Thursday.

“The innovations across our data protection suite help our customers better reduce the risk of data exposure and compliance violations, all on the same platform that makes it easier than ever to safely connect people to business applications,” said Amit Sinha, president and CTO of Zscaler.

Zscaler has built its Zero Trust Exchange on a Secure Access Services Edge (SASE) framework, which will expand the offering’s data protection capabilities with a suite of generally available services, including Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) for SaaS applications, as well as Cloud Browser Isolation.

The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange was built with a new approach that will create zero trust connections directly between the users and applications. The scalable, cloud-native platform will enable digital transformation by securely connecting users, devices and applications anywhere, without relying on network-wide access. .

Zscaler’s SASE architecture will improve the user experience with a proprietary cloud distributed across more than 150 locations globally so connections and security happen locally, which will reduce latency and improve security response times.

The company’s unified data protection offering now added to the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange will provide unified reporting and automatic remediation of violations across locations, applications and users.

“There is a new set of business requirements now that employees and applications are more distributed than ever before, and they require a cloud-first platform built on the SASE framework. The architecture of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange ensures Zscaler’s ability to deliver strong security and a great user experience in this new work-from-anywhere world,” Sinha added.

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across more than 150 data centers globally, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.