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.
PacStar has received a $10 million contract to provide PacStar 400-series networking and communications products to the US Marine Corps, the company announced on 12 September.
The products will be delivered for the marines' Networking On-The-Move (NOTM) programme, supporting a command and control capability for all elements of the Marine Air Ground Task Force.
PacStar 400-series modules include secure, enterprise-class networking and security capabilities from Cisco. Designed and engineered by PacStar into modules suitable for vehicle-mounted and command post use.
NOTM will install PacStar 400-series equipment into a wide array of tactical ground vehicles including MRAPs, HMMWVs and amphibious assault vehicles. The PacStar modules can be quickly and easily dismounted and used in command posts, without the use of tools.
Once installed, PacStar 400-series modules will also enable communications on several NOTM subsystems, the point of presence vehicle kit and staff vehicle kit, providing access to three network enclaves: secret internet protocol router network, non-secure internet protocol router network and mission specific.
The company will the modules throughout the remainder of 2017.
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.