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Part 3/7 of ◼️GETTING BACK TO BASICS◼️ 🔹General Purpose UAS - often classified as Short or Medium Range Reconnaissance (SRR/MRR) platforms - offer a means to facilitate situational awareness, decision-making, and rapid innovation, all of which are must-do on today's battlefield. 🔹They are not however plug-and-play with in-service systems, including network infrastructure and C2I software. Consequently, when operating airborne ISTAR assets, soldiers must manually correlate the digital world to the physical. 🔹This reality slows the decision-action cycle and constrains the innovative potential of GP UAS and the soldiers that are intended to benefit from them. 🔹TACTIQL addresses this deficiency from the tactical-edge to wherever decisions need to be made, in real-time and at scale. Learn more at www.tactiql.com and follow TACTIQL to keep up to data. #miltech #DND #CAF #defenseindustry #StartupJourney

Part 2/7 of ◼️GETTING BACK TO BASICS◼️ 🔹Integrating smaller, soldier-portable UAS into tactical units at the Section, Platoon, and Company-level, is essential on the modern battlefield. The capabilities once limited to the Brigade-level and up, is now ubiquitous. It is not just about the ability to see over a hill or around a corner, but about enabling the collection and sharing of the information required to enable "up-and-out" decision-making, including the delivery of effects. 🔹This requires high-quality, interoperable, geospatially accurate, and contextually-enriched ISTAR data. 🔹TACTIQL's software is purpose-built to enhance the value proposition of airborne ISTAR assets; to get data, information, and intelligence to whoever needs it, when they need it, and wherever they are on the battlefield. Learn more at www.tactiql.com and follow TACTIQL to keep up to data. #miltech #DND #CAF #defenseindustry #StartupJourney

◼️GETTING BACK TO BASICS◼️ Commercial-grade UAS are indispensable assets in today's ever-evolving battlespace, offering cost-effectiveness, rapid adaptability, and crucial real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. However, the absence of standardized metadata, amongst a host of other complexities, hampers their integration with in-service military systems and constrains their performance and effectiveness as force multipliers. Learn more at www.tactiql.com. #miltech #DND #CAF #defenseindustry #miltech

Why would a tech entrepreneur who’s set up three software companies not have a smartphone? It’s a question I’ve wondered a lot when spending time with our CEO Andy Beverley, who’s written this fantastic blog. Andy has always been passionate about technology - he cut his teeth as an engineering officer in the Royal Navy for a decade, running the IT for three years on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Andy’s always been an early adopter of technology, but he now uses an old Nokia for calls and texts, and a laptop for work. This blog goes a long way to explaining why. In the military, Andy did all his work in an office, and learnt to be very efficient. He asks if working that way was better for efficiency than the more flexible working that we have today … to be discussed!

We are proud to support the DoD’s Replicator Initiative to modernize our military forces with adaptable, cost-effective, and scalable drone solutions. PDW’s C100 sUAS has been selected for accelerated fielding as part of Replicator-1, Tranche 2 (1.2) and the Army’s Company-Level Small UAS effort. The C100’s rapidly reconfigurable and expendable modular payload capabilities will enable maneuver forces to execute critical reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition missions. This recognition highlights our commitment to delivering innovative, mission-ready solutions that empower forces to adapt and succeed in dynamic environments. https://okt.to/y0FNRS #ReplicatorInitiative #C100 #Innovation #DefenseTech #beseeingyou

I wonder how many of these can be carried in the 390,000 cubic-foot interior bay of the Independence-variant LCS. “The JUMP 20 is a vertical takeoff landing (VTOL), fixed-wing unmanned aircraft used to provide advanced multi-sensor intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) services. Delivering 13+ hours of endurance and an operational range of 185 km (115 mi), the JUMP 20 is ideal for multi-mission operations. Runway independent, the system can be set up and operational in less than 60 minutes without the need for launch or recovery equipment.”

Eoptic is excited to announce that we've been awarded a $1.25M Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract by the United States Air Force to enhance our cutting-edge passive counter-UAS technology and accelerate the detection capabilities of our Fast Optically Verified Event Array (FOVEA) system. This contract will drive the development of FOVEA, a groundbreaking solution designed to detect and characterize the growing threat posed by small unmanned aerial systems (sUAVs) to military operations and critical infrastructure. "We are incredibly proud to partner with the U.S. Air Force to address the evolving challenges in counter-UAS technology," said Pano Spiliotis. "FOVEA represents a major advancement in optical detection, offering the Air Force a powerful tool to identify and neutralize sUAV threats — all while ensuring operational security through passive monitoring." To learn more, visit https://lnkd.in/gKt6WmWe. #DefenseTechnology #DroneDetection #CounterUAS #Innovation #NationalSecurity #SBIR #STTR

In warfare time is of the essence. I worked on Combat Direction Systems for the #USN for over 20 years, and a lot of these trends have been developing for decades. #CEC in many ways the successor or supplementer to NTDS, allowed a multiplatform naval/marine force to operate in real time as a single organism. In this article consultant Dr. Alix Valenti discusses the evolution of naval Combat Management Systems (#CMS) in response to the increasing speed and complexity of modern maritime threats across multiple domains. Key points include: 1. Navies must leverage information from a variety of sensors across domains to gain information, decision, and action superiority. 2. CMS need open architectures to rapidly integrate new technologies and third-party functionalities throughout a ship's lifecycle. 3. Integration of unmanned aerial, surface, and underwater vehicles into CMS is crucial for expanding situational awareness but presents challenges related to autonomy, communication links, and regulatory constraints. 4. Collaborative engagement capabilities, such as the U.S. Navy's Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) and the European Defence Fund's Naval Collaborative Surveillance (#NCS), enable real-time sensor data sharing among coalition platforms to improve tactical situational awareness and resilience. 5. Advancements in #artificialintelligence, #machinelearning, and potentially quantum computing are expected to support operators in processing large volumes of data for faster decision-making. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of platform #connectivity in staying connected and ahead in the rapidly evolving landscape of naval warfare.

Anduril Industries continues its expansion of products to the US forces 🇺🇸 💫 The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) adopts Anduril’s small uncrewed aircraft system - Ghost and and includes it from now in its Blue UAS Cleared list. 💫 Why it matters: it will accelerate its adoption wherever it is needed in the US armed forces. 💫 Partners for this move: United States Department of the Air Force, AFWERX, Air Force Research Laboratory. 💫 read more in the link at the bottom. #uas #robotics #innovation #defensetech

Gunderson Dettmer represented client Greenoaks in participating in the $487 million Series C financing of Helsing. Helsing’s three founders Niklas Köhler, Torsten Reil and Dr. Gundbert Scherf said, “European security is at a crossroads and Helsing will play a significant role in giving democratic societies the ability to deter and defend. But speed is of the essence. This new funding round allows us to further up the tempo and invest in large-scale R&D and capabilities across all domains.” Helsing creates AI software to process information from defense systems, boost weapons capabilities in drones and jet fighters and improve battlefield decisions. Learn more here. https://bit.ly/3S8P4kB #AI #Defense #Europe #LateStage