Airbus already holds a contract valued at more than £500 million ($610 million) for SKYNET 6A, a future military communications satellite planned for launch in 2025 and based on the manufacturer’s Eurostar Neo telecommunications satellite platform.
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Lockheed Australia’s battle management Agile Shield passes counter-drone operational test
The tech was in part funded by the US Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Lockheed Australia’s Tony Lindsay said.
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Nigerian Navy to Harness Artificial Intelligence to Strengthen Operations
ADF STAFF The Nigerian Navy aims to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to strengthen its operational capacity and keep pace with evolving technological advancements in the maritime industry. Chief of the Naval Staff Vice Adm. Emmanuel Ogalla revealed this in August during the presentation of a paper by Navy participants at the National Defence College, titled
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Army on the hunt for counter-drone tech as firms show off c-UAS solutions
Counter-drone strategy was a key theme at this year’s AUSA conference, ahead of an Army challenge to industry to take out dozens of UAVs at a time.
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The Download: poisoning generative AI, and heat-storing batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI What’s happening: A new tool lets artists make invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online…
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Heat-storing batteries are scaling up to solve one of climate’s dirtiest problems
Today Antora Energy, a California-based thermal-battery startup, unveiled its plan to build its first large-scale manufacturing facility in San Jose. The announcement is a big step forward for thermal batteries (also known as heat batteries), an industry seeking to become a major player in the energy storage sector. Antora’s batteries store renewable energy as heat,…
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US Marines to test Hanwha Arion-SMET II UGV
The three-week demonstrations will take place in December at the Marines Training Center, in O’ahu, Hawaii.
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DoDe enlists SES Space and Defense for satellite-based communication services
Reston VA (SPX) Oct 23, 2023
In a significant move to bolster its satellite-based services, the U.S. Department of Defense has selected SES Space and Defense for a five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. This subsidiary of global satellite operator SES has been entrusted with the provision of proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) satellite-based services (SBS), highlighting a new chapter in the coll
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SDA Readies for Second Award for Tranche 2, Transport Layer Alpha Satellites After York Space Systems’ Win
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) expects to award a second contract, possibly next week, for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Alpha satellites after the announcement last week by
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Latest MCM USV Order To Bollinger Covers Four More Vehicles
Bollinger Shipyards this week announced the most recent Navy order for Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vessels (MCM USV) covers four more vehicles, bringing the current total under contract to seven.