“How are we going to reduce civilian deaths to the smallest amount humanly possible?” asked Palantir’s Alex Karp this week. “That is a tech problem.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Military innovation and savings: Go commercial
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
In December, an Army official called TITAN “one of the foundational elements from the intelligence modernization efforts within the Army.”
By Aaron Mehta
“[P]roduct development has been slower than anticipated, and the projected date to decommission SPADOC continues to extend further to late FY24, a delay of more than two years from the original timeline,” according to the 2023 Annual Report of the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.
By Theresa Hitchens
TITAN is the service’s ground station meant to process data from space and land-based “sensors” using artificial intelligence, which will then be sent off to the right “shooter” — part of the core concept of JADC2.
By Jaspreet Gill
Northrop Grumman’s TITAN “pre-prototype” was designed to test only the ability of a ground station to rapidly tap into and disseminate satellite imagery.
By Theresa Hitchens
The company’s work on the Global Force Information Management System will be a step in helping the Army meet one of Secretary Christine Wormuth’s top objectives: ensuring it becomes data-centric and data-driven.
By Jaspreet Gill The TITAN program is a tactical ground station that will process data from across space and land-based sensors using artificial intelligence and ship it off to the right shooter — such as one of the new Army long-range precision fires missiles.
By Andrew Eversden
Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
Space Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its “old clunker” SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.
By Theresa Hitchens
At the moment it is unclear when Space Force and Space Command actually will decommission CAVEnet, 2000s-era tech that analysts use for highly accurate and classified tracking of space objects.
By Theresa Hitchens
The award is part of the second capability drop of the Distributed Common Ground Systems-Army.
By Andrew Eversden
President Donald Trump’s six latest nominees to lead the Pentagon provide some hope for those who have long been frustrated with the Defense Department’s roadblocks to procuring innovative technologies. From the Boeing executive who spent time on the company’s successful commercial side who’s been picked for Deputy Defense Secretary, to the House Armed Services aide who crafted the…
By Elana Broitman