Australia looks towards space with force restructure, investment and training
Australia is looking to improve its presence in space with a focus on communications and creating a dedicated segment of its defence forces committed to the domain.
DTECH Labs, a Cubic Global Defense subsidiary, has been awarded a $2.7 million initial order to provide Mobile, Modular, Micro-Single Enclave (M3-SE) baseband equipment to GATR Technologies, it announced on 6 October.
The baseband equipment will be paired to the 2.4m portable Inflatable Satellite Antenna (ISA) from GATR Technologies for the US Marine Corps (USMC) High Bandwidth Signals Intelligence Palletised Terminal (HBSI-PT) programme.
The M3-SE baseband equipment has three network enclaves and a black core transport system for high-capacity data, video and voice transmission. It can support 10-36 users in a signals intelligence environment through a wired or wireless IP-based transmission system. The whole system can be packed into five cases and weighs less than 375lbs.
Michael Barthlow, vice president of secure networking, Cubic Global Defense, said: 'We strive to provide the most efficient and effective communication solutions to our customers and we are extremely proud to be a part of the USMC programme supporting our customer GATR Technologies.
'With our innovative offerings, we will continue partnering with our customers to provide the best solutions for military forces worldwide.'
Australia is looking to improve its presence in space with a focus on communications and creating a dedicated segment of its defence forces committed to the domain.
The Portuguese company’s naval communications system is in service across more than a dozen countries. It has turned to its home nation for support in developing a new vehicle based C2 system.
The Vision4ce Deep Embedded Feature Tracking (DEFT) technology software is designed to process video and images by blending traditional computer vision with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to present actionable information from complex environments.
Persistent Systems has been cleared by National Security Agency (NSA) to transmit sensitive data on commercial networks. The devices are added to the NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) component list which also includes other companies’ products providing the same security.
The release of the UK’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR) has been long promised as mid-year. It is possible it could be as early as 2 June although the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) continues to play its cards close to its chest.
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