The U.S. Space Force is advancing the development of a government-owned open system to process and share data derived from existing and future missile warning satellites. Lt. Col. Kellie Brownlee, materiel leader for future ground integration at SMC, said the service is working to transfer Lockheed Martin’s proprietary technology and data to a government-owned open architecture.
Read More »Potomac Officers Club Announces Army Brig. Gen. Rob Collins for Weaponizing Data Across the Digital Battlefield Virtual Event on Aug. 11th
Brig. Gen. Rob Collins, program executive officer for command, control, communications-tactical (PEO C3T) at the U.S. Army, will serve as keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s Weaponizing Data Across the Digital Battlefield Virtual Event on August 11th. Click here to register for the Weaponizing Data Across the Digital Battlefield Virtual Event.
Read More »Pentagon Releases 5G Strategy
The Department of Defense (DoD) has unveiled a new strategy to advance the adoption of secure and resilient 5G networks and stay ahead of potential adversaries.
Read More »FLIR Secures $18.6M USMC Contract to Provide Centaur UGV; David Ray Quoted
The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has awarded FLIR Systems an $18.6 million contract, sourced through the Dept. of Defense Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II (MTRS Inc II) program, to provide Centaur unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), plus spares, the company announced on Friday.
Read More »Army Advances Bomb Disposal Tech Modernization With Three Robotic Programs
The U.S. military has launched efforts to modernize its explosive ordnance disposal technologies and one of the service branches has made progress developing robotic systems in the past year, National Defense reported Friday.
Read More »Air Force Develops Open Architecture for ISR Ground System
A battle management team of the U.S. Air Force has developed an open architecture for the service branch’s Distributed Common Ground System that works to support the service branch’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements. The Air Force said Thursday the team collaborated with the Air Combat Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory to …
Read More »Report: House Committee-Approved Fiscal 2017 NDAA Contains ‘Open Systems’ Provision
A defense policy bill the House Armed Services Committee approved two weeks ago contains a provision that would require the Defense Department to implement open architecture-based weapon systems “to the maximum extent practicable,” Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes an earlier version of the committee’s 2017 National Defense Authorization Act had called for …
Read More »Jeffrey Harrigian: Air Force Tests F-35 Against Potential Enemy Air Defenses
A U.S. Air Force official has said the service branch has started to subject its F-35 fighter jets to combat mission tests against Russian- and Chinese-made aerial defense platforms through the use of “open air” ranges as well as computer modeling and simulation environments. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, director of …
Read More »Col. Bruce Lyman: USAF Adopts Open Architecture, Agile Method for Intell System Modernization
The U.S. Air Force has applied open architecture and agile models toward updates of its ground infrastructure for analysis and processing of data collected from military sensors, drones and manned aircraft, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes the Air Force Research Laboratory last year built an open prototype of the Distributed …
Read More »Air Force Near New Open Architecture Pact With Industry; Camron Gorguinpour Comments
The U.S. Air Force plans to wrap up an open architecture agreement with a consortium of companies in the next few weeks in a move to accelerate the service’s acquisition process, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Scott Maucione writes the open architecture procurement process will use the other transaction agreement. Camron …
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