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.
Lockheed Martin has signed a $38 million contract to support the US military's Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS), the company announced on 3 April.
The TBMCS is the joint battle management system used by all air wings the US military. It coordinates virtually all aircraft, from fighters to helicopters to cruise missiles, and integrates operations and intelligence systems for the air force and navy with ground systems for army and marine corps to enable distributed battle management.
A typical Air Operations Center contains approximately 80 systems, for which TBMCS acts as the 'engine,' giving the joint community – marine corps, navy, army, air force – shared situational awareness for managing the air campaign. The system is deployed at more than 100 locations around the world.
Under this contract, Lockheed Martin will provide sustainment support for the existing legacy TBMCS system; and work as part of an air force team to address critical end of life issues – such as commercial off-the-shelf operating systems and applications, and improve the overall cyber security of the TBMCS enterprise.
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.
Intelsat outlines how its multi-orbit SATCOM architecture is enhancing connectivity and resilience for special operations forces operating in degraded and contested environments.