Tag Archives: command and control

A Raytheon Technologies business unit has received a $495K contract to help the U.S. Air Force assess the feasibility of using blockchain across battle management, aviation and situational awareness operations, Coindesk reported Thursday.

The Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center have partnered to establish a 5G network at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for potential sources of airspace management technologies to be integrated with the Joint All-Domain Command and Control system in support of the U.S. Air Force's prototyping efforts.

Data analytics firm Palantir has received a contract to provide data and software services for the U.S. Space Force in support of the Kobayashi Maru project, SpaceNews reported Monday. The service branch’s Space and Missile Systems Center kicked off Kobayashi Maru in 2019 to replace legacy space command-and-control software with new applications.

The U.S. Air Force plans to include SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites as part of testing activities for a joint military command-and-control system in April, Military Times reported Saturday.

Chris Bogdan, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, said the company is interested in developing a ground-based command-and-control system with an open architecture designed to support satellites used for national security missions, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force intends to solicit for artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies designed to support command and control activities.

The U.S. Army seeks market sources on a variety of research and development topics that support the military’s cyber operations.

Chris Bogdan, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, told SpaceNews in an interview published Wednesday that the company is pursuing the ground-based area of military space systems and sees growth opportunities in satellite ground control stations, cybersecurity and data analytics, among other areas.

The Air Force Association has recognized the Northrop Grumman-operated system Battlefield Airborne Communications Node for providing missions with communications support.

The Space Development Agency seeks industry input on the development and deployment of a new space defense architecture to support defense and communications goals.

Akima's RiverTech subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $34.5M contract to provide command-and-control technical support services to the U.S. Air Force.

Web Business Solutions Inc. has won a potential seven-year $70.6M contract to help manage a U.S. Marine Corps center established to train the military branch’s personnel on how to operate command-and-control systems. WBSI will provide support services to the Command and Control Training and Education Center of Excellence and its facilities located …

Lockheed Martin has been working on two updates to the U.S. Air Force’s existing GPS ground control system designed to facilitate command and control of GPS III satellites for testing and operations. The company said Thursday those upgrades to the Architecture Evolution Plan Operational Control System are being carried out …

The U.S. Army has tested long-range network management features of the Northrop Grumman-built Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System. IBCS helped soldiers maintain video, data and voice connectivity through network management, execute and track simulated threats and identify aerial objects as “friend or foe” during the five-week soldier checkout …