Combatant commanders may have units they have command authority over, but if they can't talk to them and connect to them, they don’t have control. That’s what IoWT enables.
It's sort of like we're exclusively dating. We agreed to not see other people right now but we haven't committed to anything else yet," explained one Lockheed Martin official.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
The sixth ABMS onramp "was going to be in partnership with Australia, and allies and partners, in the Pacific Rim," Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said, but "just due to the budget constraints, we had to pull the plug on that."
How can the Army bring the Internet Of Things and 'Smart Cities' technology to its bases, without opening new avenues for cyber attack?
A soldier wearing the ENVG-B can look through binoculars, turn on the camera in their rifle’s sight, and then point that sight around a corner to see and shoot, without exposing anything more than their hands or the rifle.
“This is a hard law to write; it can very quickly get into something that the FTC can't regulate,” says Mark Montgomery, executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
"We think that p-LEO is a big deal. And there's got to be a revolution that has to hit the ground segment, says Phil Carrai, president of Kratos's space, training and cyber division.
"Our ability to apply AI and other emerging technologies faster than our adversaries will allow us to maintain our competitive edge over Russia and China," Rep. Elise Stefanik, ranking of the HASC emerging threats subcommittee, said.
NTIA is not aiming at eventual regulations; rather voluntary sharing of critical information about software supply chains.
"Once a chip is designed, adding security after the fact or making changes to address newly discovered threats is nearly impossible," explains a DARPA spokesperson.
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
DoD never entered its own classified testing into the record during the Ligado proceedings, according to FCC chair Ajit Pai, "despite the fact that we have procedures in place for filing classified materials with the FCC -- procedures other agencies routinely have followed."
NewSpace Networks will bid against Lockheed Martin for bankrupt Vector Launch's GalacticSky software-defined satellite assets, says co-founder Shaun Coleman.
ABMS is essentially the first effort by the Defense Department to "build the Internet of Things for the military," Will Roper, head of Air Force acquisition, says.
The Air Force will pick a telecommunications company to wire 17 bases in the Northeast with 5G sometime this quarter, says Air Force CTO Frank Konieczny.