Lockheed Martin has worked with several technology companies to demonstrate and test the capability of a hybrid 5G network to deliver advanced communications to warfighters in a multidomain environment. Lockheed said Wednesday the 5G.MIL Unified Network Solutions platform achieved Technology Readiness Level 6+ and demonstrated interoperability, security, resilience and other capabilities when tested across mission scenarios to assess its suitability for Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control and Joint All-Domain Operations.

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Verizon has opened a new innovation laboratory in San Francisco and lab personnel demonstrated to attendees how 5G technology and mobile edge computing infrastructure could support drone-based radio frequency sensing and precise positioning for defense and aerospace applications, RCR Wireless News reported Thursday. Dan Rice, vice president of 5G.MIL programs at Lockheed Martin, attended the […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Juniper Networks to demonstrate a routing technology intended to streamline the dissemination of critical information from remote environments to U.S. military commanders. Under the partnership, Lockheed said it integrated its Dynamic Data Link Manager with Juniper’s Session Smart Routing technology to deliver a hybrid software-defined wide-area network that provides secure […] More

As vice president of 5G.MIL® Programs at Lockheed Martin, Dan Rice oversees the strategy and performance of 5G and advanced communication technology solutions programs at the defense, aerospace and information security organization. Rice additionally handles the development and facilitation of strategic relationships as well as leads corporate independent research and development efforts. Rice is a […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with telecommunications company Verizon to test 5G-enabled drones capable of capturing and sharing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data in support of military command and control activities. During recent demonstrations, four rotary wing drones collected and transferred ISR data via both private and public 5G networks to geolocate military targets, Lockheed said. […] More

AT&T and Lockheed Martin conducted a test in August and achieved an 80 percent reduction in transfer time of health and usage data for analysis from a Sikorsky-built UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter to the 5G.MIL multisite pilot network using AT&T’s 5G private cellular network. The test demonstrated the interoperability between the 5G.MIL network and private […] More

Lockheed Martin will allow the use of Radisys’ Open Radio Access Network software offerings in its 5G.MIL products under an enterprise agreement as part of efforts to facilitate the deployment of relocatable 5G base stations within tactical military networks. Dan Rice, vice president of 5G.MIL programs at Lockheed, said in a statement published Monday collaborating […] More

Executives from cloud services providers such as Oracle, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and IBM took part in a panel discussion in June and discussed how competition drives such companies to advance collaboration and data interoperability, Nextgov reported Monday. “The market is driving us toward open clouds where we do collaborate more with each other,” said […] More

BAE Systems has demonstrated the ability of its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System laser guidance kits to target and neutralize unmanned aircraft systems during a counter-UAS exercise of the Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office. During the demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, the APKWS-configured rockets hit drone targets weighing 25 to 50 pounds […] More

Maxar Technologies, a space and geospatial intelligence-focused company, has agreed to be acquired by Advent International, a global private equity investor. The all-cash transaction worth approximately $6.4 billion is aimed at positioning Maxar to accelerate its investments into satellite technologies and data understanding to better support its customers in both the public and private sectors, the two […] More

The Department of Labor has tapped Tetra Tech to provide information engineering, agile software development and enterprise architecture services in support of the agency’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The five-year, $22.4 million task order, which was awarded under a $169 million multiple award contract, will cover life-cycle software development, advanced data analytics and database design for the […] More

New York-based UiPath has raised $225M in a round of Series E financing led by Alkeon Capital Management. The company said Monday it will use the investment to carry out research-and-development initiatives, advance its hyperautomation platform and expand its cloud offerings.

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