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9 December

Lockheed Martin Unveils AI That Replans Drone Missions On the Fly

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works just ran a live test showing how artificial intelligence can take the wheel when unmanned missions hit a snag.

9 December

John Beckner

Terrain Matters: Why Today’s ‘New Military Technology’ May Not Survive Tomorrow’s Battlefield

Militaries are drawing the wrong conclusions from Ukraine because they’re treating its drone-heavy, trench-dense battlefield as universal, but it is the terrain, not the technology, that decides which weapons and tactics survive.

9 December

General Dynamics Information Technology's (GDIT) Mission Emerge Center in Springfield, Virginia

Rojoef Manuel

General Dynamics Launches Virginia Hub for On-Site Defense, Intel Tech Development

General Dynamics Information Technology has opened the Mission Emerge Center in Springfield, Virginia, providing a hands-on environment to rapidly build and test advanced technologies for US defense and intelligence missions.

9 December

A laptop with a VR headset and game controller, set up for an FPV simulator experience.

Ethan M. Encarnacion

US Introduces Simulator That Recreates FPV Drone Ops in Detail

A US firm is pairing a laptop with a handheld controller to create a first-person view drone simulator aimed at giving a “highly-realistic” training experience.

8 December

Bohemia Interactive Simulations has been awarded a five-year enterprise license contract to deliver the Digital Virtual Trainer (DVT) for the Canadian Department of National Defence.

Jodesz Gavilan

BAE Systems Launches OneArc Simulation Unit

BAE Systems has launched a new business unit aimed at bringing simulation, synthetic training, and AI solutions under a unified platform.

5 December

HII executives on a tour of the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. HII’s Mission Technologies division has joined the Corporate Partners Program at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. is a Corporate Partners of the school. (Photo Credit: Lauren Bacon, University of Maryland Communications Program Manager)

Rojoef Manuel

HII Joins University of Maryland Engineering Program to Expand Defense Tech Collaboration

HII’s Mission Technologies division has entered the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering Corporate Partners Program, deepening the company’s ties with the institution to expand research and workforce development efforts.

5 December

Aechelon’s AI tool adds environmental conditions using machine learning-derived snow accumulation, and extracts 3D vegetation and buildings from Vantor’s 3D spatial foundation to generate an up-to-date tactical synthetic environment.

Giulia Bernacchi

AI Converts SAR Imagery Into Real-Time 3D Synthetic Terrain

Aechelon completed a proof-of-concept that uses AI and Vantor’s 3D terrain data to turn ICEYE’s radar imagery into 3D synthetic environments.

5 December

Jodesz Gavilan

Electra Launches Defense Unit for Hybrid-STOL Aircraft

Electra has established a business unit to deliver hybrid-electric, ultra-STOL aircraft for military logistics and last-mile missions.

5 December

Akhsan Erido Elezhar

New AI ‘Bodyguard’ Fends Off Malicious Attacks on Mission-Critical Vehicle Systems

LFD-IDS is an AI-powered intrusion detection system that protects connected vehicles by analyzing sensor data, including temperature, tire pressure, and location.

4 December

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Claude Lambert, chief of future operations division for the Joint Task Force-Space Defense and U.S. Air Force Maj. Katie “Starbuck” Baier, chief of intelligence for weapons and tactics for the JTF-SD, look at a computer screen at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, Dec. 19, 2022. Through the partnering of the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and National Reconnaissance Office in the National Space Defense Center, JTF-SD brings to bear the full force of the U.S. Government and synchronizes space superiority planning and operations. (U.S. Space Force photo by Dennis Rogers)

Rojoef Manuel

GetChkd to Improve US Air, Space Force SATCOM Security

Texas-based GetChkd has secured a $1.9-million contract to bolster the US Air Force and US Space Force’s satellite communications security with blockchain infrastructure.

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