The new rules mean that if imagery can be bought in a foreign country, US operators will now have a right to sell it.
By Theresa HitchensAI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
“[T]he trend is that a larger percentage of our work will be able to be accomplished using commercial systems than in the past,” says Gauthier.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Basically, if that’s where the bulk of the data is, then we will work where the data exists,” David Gauthier, head of NGA’s Commercial and Business Operations Group, said about using commercial imagery analysis.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We think there is a tremendous demand within the US government for this type of high quality SAR data, so we’re eager to broaden and deepen those engagements,” says ICEYE US CEO Mark Matossian.
By Theresa Hitchens
The mobile TITAN satellite ground station is a critical node in Army plans for all-domain operations.
By Theresa Hitchens
“You can’t hide very well” in space, one industry official said, “So, I think the government is going to have to get over that, and recognize space is a free place.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“It’s mostly a bunch of backward-looking colonels at DoD” causing the problems, said one industry source, “not the IC.”
By Theresa Hitchens
What’s new in naval radars and missiles: Defending the Pacific
Defending U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, Red Sea, and elsewhere require a range of systems from close-in weapons to anti-ballistic missiles.
AFRL will test Capella’s SAR satellites ability to provide “object identification, change detection, and tip and cueing with other military systems,” says Capella’s Dan Brophy.
By Theresa Hitchens
The MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator team is looking at how AI can help build “an Alexa that can understand our military jargon,” says Col. Jason Brown, noting that “there are a million use cases out there for that.”
By Theresa Hitchens “Real-time tasking and receiving data is going to b the future,” Capella CEO Payam Banazadeh says. “Over time every single remote sensing company will go this direction.”
By Theresa Hitchens
BOSTON: “It’s like running through a briar patch naked,” Will Roper said of trying to bring start-up companies into the service’s contracting model to keep apace of commercial innovation. “You have to be willing to bleed a little bit,” Roper, the Air Force’s top acquisition official told me in an interview last Thursday, after watching 10 newborn…
By Theresa Hitchens
Born as what most thought was a joke in March 2018, President Trump’s Space Force had by June become a White House directive to the Pentagon. Since then the Trump Administration has been considering possible variants in the Force’s subordination, authorities, size, and budget, while Acting SecDef Shanahan has already created a working group to…
By Bob Butterworth