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By   Barry Rosenberg on February 26, 2021 at 8:30 AM In January, Northrop Grumman received a $3.6 billion ID IQ contract for continued Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) operations, sustainment, and support. After two decades of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations against insurgent groups and global extremist networks, a Great Power competition has once again emerged as the preeminent challenge facing global security. In this 21st century Great Power competition, t...

Search U.S. Army executes successful flight test of Vita Inclinata’s Load Stability System Litter Attachment for H-60 Black Hawks Vita Inclinata Press Release | February 23, 2021 Estimated reading time 5 minutes, 19 seconds. The U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL) and Vita Inclinata announced that the USAARL successfully completed initial prototype flight-testing on Vita’s Load Stability System Litter Attachment (LSS-LA) at Fort Rucker, in support of Cooperative Research...

The High Tech Way the U.S. Military Wants to Talk to Satellites Quickly sharing data to the right units and commanders is critical in wartime. The U.S. military excels at acquiring intelligence, but central command and boots on the ground engaged in combat operations often run into technical bottlenecks when trying to share that mission-critical data over single beam terminals, such as parabolic antennas and other outdated infrastructure. The U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy are conducting a serie...

BROOMFIELD, Colo. and FORT RUCKER, Ala., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL) and Vita Inclinata today announced that the USAARL successfully completed initial prototype

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 18, 2021 at 3:16 PM Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown WASHINGTON: The Air Force Chief of Staff is calling on the Pentagon leadership to launch a targeted roles and missions review of the key functional areas of future All Domain Operations detailed in the impending Joint Warfighting Concept.  “I wouldn’t actually go through a complete roles and missions [review],” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown told the Defense Writers Group. “But I do...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 18, 2021 at 4:50 PM Gen. James McConville WASHINGTON: As budget battles intensify in the face of COVID relief and the shift to the Pacific, Army Chief of Staff James McConville argues that the Army’s new missiles, aircraft, & networks can help the other services in long-range, fast-paced, high-tech combat. “The future is all about range and speed,” Gen. McConville declared, and longtime Army watchers perked up. With the other services circling f...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 19, 2021 at 12:42 PM A UH-60 Black Hawk takes off after unloading soldiers during an exercise in Germany. An air assault like this one — with troops wearing IVAS targeting goggles — will be a key part of EDGE21, along with new long-range drones and jamming pods. WASHINGTON: The Army will host an interservice aviation exercise in May to prove its Chief of Staff’s recent claim that the service can bring “speed and range” to future battlefields...

GEOINT provider BlackSky to go public through merger with investment company February 19 A BlackSky satellite collected three images in rapid succession over Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on August 10, 2020. By analyzing those images, the company is able to extract economic and financial indicators to offer a near-real-time view of commercial activity in Port Elizabeth. (BlackSky) WASHINGTON — A geospatial imagery and analytics provider to the intelligence community is going public follo...

For US and allies, prepping for AI warfare starts with the data February 12 The Pentagons leading artificial intelligence office started roundtable discussions with international allies on artificial intelligence challenges. (metamorworks) WASHINGTON — The U.S. and allies are using a new forum started by the Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence office to work toward developing AI systems that can connect in the future to help them fight better together. The Partnership for Defense, ...

The Space Force considers a new mission: tactical satellite imagery February 3 The Kestrel Eye is a small, low-cost, visible-imagery satellite prototype designed to provide near-real-time images to the tactical-level ground Soldier. Kestrel Eye was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as a payload aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 14, 2017 (Photo courtesy of SMDTC). WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is still in its early days, but leader...