Lockheed Martin has shipped its third JCSAT-17 satellite to French Guiana for launch on an Ariane V rocket, the company announced on Wednesday. The satellite will provide flexible mobile communication services to Japan and the surrounding region.

“Following two successful launches of LM 2100 commercial communications satellites, Lockheed Martin is proud to deliver JCSAT-17 to SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SJC), which will add a tremendous amount of new connectivity for users in Japan,” said Guy Beutelschies, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for Communication Satellite Solutions.

The JCSAT-17 is the first Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) communications satellite. The new MMS has been developed from the modernized LM 2100 and includes 26 innovations that make the satellite more powerful, flexible and versatile in orbit.

The LM 2100 base has been optimized for high-power missions. The base utilizes the strong history of more than 100 A2100 spacecrafts. The platform has been enhanced through significant investments to deliver more power and flexibility at a lower cost and faster time to market.

Lockheed Martin has added a reprogrammable mission processor to the LM 2100 base, which will add flexibility as mission needs change. The satellite has incorporated s-band and C-band transponders and an 18m mesh reflector, assuring continuous communication during high-volume events.

The satellite also features robust Ku-band connectivity. JCSAT-17 is the eighth satellite built by Lockheed Martin for SJC, beginning with NSAT-110, JCSAT-9 through JCSAT-13 and JCSAT-110R. The company has also begun to manufacture an additional 5 modernized LM 2100 based satellites for commercial and government customers.

“This satellite will help grow Japan’s advanced economy by adding new options for mobility, bandwidth where it’s needed, and reliable connections,” Beutelschies concluded.

About Lockheed Martin

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 105,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division has received its tenth AN/AQS-20C minehunting sonar system from Raytheon, the company announced on Wednesday. The can start moving towards initial operating capacity after having completed developmental testing in Feb. 2019.

The AN/AQS-20C system is an advanced minehunting sonar system for the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mine countermeasure mission (MCM) package equipped with four distinct imaging sonars, signal processing and computer algorithms to provide real-time, computer-aided detection and classification against the full spectrum of threat mines.

It does this by automatic localization mine-like objects and provides the operator with a visual image and a contact data list. The computer processing, signal processing and portable size of the AN/AQS-20C reduces the amount of time required to search an area while significantly increasing search-rate agility.

“AQS-20C is capable of enabling true single-pass, minehunting when paired with the Barracuda mine neutralizer,” said Wade Knudson, senior director of Raytheon’s Undersea Warfare Systems business division.

The system is platform agnostic, capable of integration onto various tow vehicles and a key element in single sortie detect-to-engage capability, which combines the search-detect-identify and neutralize elements of an MCM mission on a single platform.

Further integration onto MCM Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) is scheduled for early 2020. It will be equipped aboard  LCS vessels upon successful integration.

About Raytheon

Raytheon Company, with 2018 sales of $27 billion and 67,000 employees, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of innovation spanning 97 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, C5I products and services, sensing, effects and mission support for customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Oracle’s Internet Intelligence group has launched a tool within the Safer Internet Initiative that will give engineers and researchers more accurate information and understanding on how to stop routing leaks, the company announced on Wednesday.

The Safer Internet Initiative’s new Oracle Internet Routing 3D Visualization seeks to improve internet enterprise safety so that users can feel secure when interacting with sensitive data on cloud based platforms or else operating critical workloads in an online environment. It also seeks to generally educate consumers on how internet routing leaks occur.

When measuring internet routing leakages, the standard measurement is usually the raw number of IP address prefixes disrupted, the new tool will factor in propagation and duration of the leak as well. According to Oracle, just using the IP prefixes risks both overstating and understating a disruption of service incident.

The tool will feature an interactive  interface that can both display current incidents as well as certain previous ones within a scale of 100 IP prefixes, and were seen by at least ten percent of Oracle’s Border Gateway Protocols (BGP).

The Safer Internet Initiative already has the Internet Intelligence Map and IXP Filter Check components and more is expected to be announced later in 2020. Oracle also announced improvements to Oracle Enterprise Manager on Jan. 15th.

About Oracle Internet Intelligence

Internet Intelligence is powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Previously known as Renesys, we’ve been recording the state of the internet 24/7 for more than a decade, analyzing the connectivity of every network and every service provider—in every market on earth—at one-second resolution.

Deloitte’s 11th annual technology report has revealed the top five tech trends for 2020, the company announced on Wednesday.

“The most successful businesses today are combining cutting-edge technologies like machine learning and IoT with disruptive IT architecture and supercharged talent to create entirely new ways of working – and they already see the benefits,” said Scott Buchholz, emerging technologies research director and government and public services CTO at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Deloitte has hypothesized the collaboration of IT and finance leaders to develop new flexible approaches for funding innovation at the speed of Agile. The five trends the company reported include digital twins, the new role technology architects play in business outcomes, and affective computing-driven “human experience platforms” that have redefined the way humans and machines interact.

The company has outlined digital twin technology as a joint between the physical and digital. The report states that the technology will allow businesses to create new virtual models to optimize processes, products and services. The organizations will integrate IoT, machine learning, advanced computing infrastructure and more to unlock entirely new business models.

In the second trend known as ‘Architecture Awakens,” Deloitte has reported that architecture will become a strategic priority. The company has predicted the architect role will be more nimble, responsive and collaborative.

Organizations have begun to view technology as a way to gain or lose customer trust and it also reflects back on company brand and loyalty. Deloitte stated that chief information officers (CIOs) will emphasize ethical tech and create processes to help solve ethical dilemmas related to disruptive technologies, as part of the Ethical Technology and Trust trend.

Deloitte has described the “Human Experience Platforms” trend as the disconnect humans often experience with daily digital interactions. Recently, organizations have started injecting emotional intelligence into their systems.

The new AI capabilities, including machine learning and voice and facial recognition, will detect and respond to human emotions to create intelligent human experiences that use connections between people, systems, data and products.

The final trend, “Finance and the Future of IT,” states that businesses will become more agile and financial operations will need to support new modes of action. Deloitte has claimed that CIOs and chief financial officers (CFOs) will need to create a new approach to enterprise finance, including reimagining the budget, contracts and capital plans as technology becomes more innovative.

“Technology is constantly in motion. Executives should take tomorrow’s cues from today’s trends. ‘Horizon next’ technologies are evolving out of today’s core trends, sometimes in unexpected ways, giving rise to new opportunities,” added Bill Briggs, chief technology officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP.

About Deloitte

Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 5,000 private and middle market companies.

Our people work across the industry sectors that drive and shape today’s marketplace — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthy society.