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Webcast: The Role of Spacepower on the Modern Battlefield
This event took place on December 16, 2025 As modern warfare expands into new domains, space plays a critical role in offensive, defensive and communications capabilities. Critical infrastructure relies on space, as satellites provide key components…
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DoD Decision Advantage: Agentic AI as the Accelerant
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a top priority for the Department of Defense (DoD), as its data collection, analysis and management capabilities can help U.S. forces maintain an information advantage in the field. But as with any…
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Clearing the Fog of War
Surviving the Realities of Modern Combat Today’s operational environments demand more from our warfighters than ever before. In Ukraine, we’ve seen how contested communications and GPS jamming can cripple even the most technologically advanced forces. Soldiers must operate on the move, maintain situational awareness and communicate across diverse networks amid chaos. To achieve a true…
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Apex Defense: Where Defense Meets Innovation
Apex Defense is more than just a typical defense event. Scheduled for April 23-24, 2025, at the Gaylord National Harbor, MD, this groundbreaking forum is set to redefine how the U.S. military, defense contractors, private capital and cutting-edge tech companies connect with each other. The mission is to “deliver adaptable capability at speed and scale…
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Webcast: Protecting Data in Contested & Denied Environments
This event took place December 2, 2024. As the U.S. military adopts a network-centric approach to the modern battlefield, being able to operate in contested and denied environments takes on critical importance. The key considerations include collecting, securing and distributing data in a timely manner, but in addition to those challenges, operating in contested and…
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Webcast: The Challenges of Testing Command and Control Systems
This event took place on October 21, 2024 Reliable, robust command and control systems are critical to modern military operations, so they must be tested to ensure they can meet the demands of their use and attempts to disrupt them. The Department of Defense mandates automated testing of these systems whenever possible, but that also creates challenges. Testing that is disruptive or invasive can interfere with operations, while testing that…
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Securing multicloud is more than a technology challenge
Multicloud environments reflect the changing nature of the mission, providing resiliency and agility crucial for always-on, global operations. Additionally, certain workloads—particularly GenAI—may run better on specific cloud platforms, and using multiple cloud platforms may even be a contractual or operational necessity. Still, the more connections between platforms, the greater the potential for breaches. Security tools designed for one platform may not be able to protect the entire cloud ecosystem. Applications…
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Webcast: Scaling Up Data Collection and Interpretation
This event happened on May 20, 2024 As the United States defense and intelligence communities continue to collect more and more data from a growing pool of sources, they need tools to help them evaluate and manage it to make it useful instead of overwhelming. Tools such as artificial intelligence can help organize and manage data, while searching for patterns or key search terms faster than humans can, while cloud…
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Webcast: Data-Driven Defense: How AI Propels the US Military
This event happened on January 16, 2024 The modern military is awash in data, but extracting valuable insights from it in a timely manner is a challenge. The world is witnessing a relentless artificial intelligence (AI) arms race, and ensuring that the US remains at the forefront of AI technology has become an absolute necessity to prevent being outpaced by adversaries. AI is already giving analysts new tools to make…
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Accelerate Decision Making at the Edge
Success in the modern battlespace relies on more than advanced weaponry. It demands a convergence of mission data that will outperform any adversary’s decision-making capabilities. This level of decision dominance requires mission data to be connected, secured, and analyzed throughout the mission chain. DTECH’s edge compute and networking solutions enable assured data access across platforms and echelons to accelerate battlespace decision-making. Achieve the decision advantage with DTECH edge technologies that…
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Communications Network Challenges in Contested Environments
This event happened on May 16, 2023 Networked forces that can share real-time information are the future of warfare, but those forces will often be operating in areas where communications infrastructure is inaccessible or the RF spectrum is contested by adversaries. That means forces need to take the tactical network with them, and it must be reliable, secure, and robust enough to stand up to interference and electronic attack —…
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Q&A: The State of Hypersonics
The potential of hypersonic weapons has military leaders rethinking everything they knew about missiles. A combination of speed — hypersonics can exceed Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound — maneuverability and flexibility means that hypersonics break the old rules of both missile defense and offense. Detecting, identifying and killing a missile that can nimbly maneuver at such high speeds creates a number of challenges when it comes…
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Webcast: Data Management For Military Operations
This event happened on January 13, 2023 As the United States military moves to information management systems that allow for real-time data sharing between units, commands and even each branch of the service, dependable cloud-based technology is needed to collect, organize and manage data.The Department of Defense (DoD) is making significant investments in cloud computing, including the Artificial Intelligence and Data Acceleration initiative, the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability and the…
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Q&A: The Role of CUAS on the Modern Battlefield
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) open up an entirely new world for those looking to perform quick-strike, low-risk attacks on infrastructure, opposing forces or even civilian targets. Due to their size and maneuverability, they are hard to detect and track. They are low cost and the fact that they can be built or modified using commercial off-the-shelf hardware makes them expendable. And if a pilot is sitting miles — or hundreds,…
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Q&A: How LTAMDS Defends Against Aerial Threats
As the nature of aerial threats changes, radar systems have to adapt to provide effective defense. Modern cruise missiles don’t fly a static trajectory. Unmanned aerial vehicles can be piloted by a human thousands of miles away. Hypersonics reach speeds that can put them within striking distance before a radar system can report them as anything other than a blob on a screen. Those threats require a radar system robust…
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Webcast: Smart Bases for Defense
This event happened on December 14, 2022 Facilitating effective command and control across the Department of Defense’s massive infrastructure is no small task, especially in hostile environments where jamming, interference, or congestion of key information channels can occur. In response, the Pentagon is moving to establish a network of ‘smart bases’ which leverage a mix of cybersecurity and advanced networking capabilities (like 5G) to ensure secure, resilient connectivity to U.S.…
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How Hybrid-First Cloud Technology Enables Government Innovation
Hybrid cloud architectures have taken hold in recent years as the US government looks to unify its many different on-premises, custom-built, and cloud applications. However, as federal agencies begin to adopt more cloud technologies, one common challenge has emerged: the need to comply with stringent regulatory standards that govern Secret and Top Secret data. Regulations like the Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503; the Memorandum on Improving the Cybersecurity of National…
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Digital Modernization Solutions for Multi-Domain Operations
In the face of unprecedented geopolitical competition and increasingly sophisticated and persistent cyber threats, the Department of Defense (DoD) is undertaking digital modernization to protect national security systems and warfighting platforms. By incorporating commercial technologies into operational systems and platforms, defense leaders can leverage data more effectively and achieve a higher level of sustained force readiness. What has not changed is the need for precise mission planning, comprehensive personnel readiness,…
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Webcast: JADC2 in 2022
This event happened on November 16, 2022 JADC2 aims to bring all of the armed forces under a single operational umbrella, allowing soldiers on the ground, pilots in the air and sailors at sea to share real-time information and work seamlessly to achieve mission goals. But doing so is a massive undertaking, requiring a complete overhaul of each service’s data infrastructure and a unified command and control structure. In this…
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AMRAAM Missile: A long legacy with new capability
The AMRAAM missile is the air-to-air weapon of choice for U.S. and allied militaries. And it keeps getting better. Its roots go back three decades, but today’s AMRAAM missile is vastly different from its predecessors, thanks to multiple updates of its hardware and software. “The AMRAAM missile is arguably the most sophisticated air-to-air weapon in use today and for good reason. It has to be in order to address the…
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Webcast: Solving the Challenges of Future Vertical Lift
This event happened on August 24, 2022 The Defense Department is hard at work on developing a new generation of aviation systems that put enemy air forces to shame. Programs like the Army’s Future Vertical Lift and Air Force’s Next-Gen Air Dominance aim to invigorate U.S. air defenses and strike capabilities by incorporating new additive manufacturing techniques and mission systems that can deliver improved stealth, speed, and system evolutions to…
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Accelerating the Zero Trust Journey in Federal Government
Zero Trust is a strategic approach to cybersecurity that secures an organization by eliminating implicit trust and continuously validating every stage of digital interaction. It’s a way for government agencies and departments to build resilience into their IT environments. The Zero Trust Model has become increasingly important for the federal government due to President Biden’s unprecedented Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and the more recent federal Zero Trust…
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Webcast: Crisis Communications
This event took place on June 28, 2022 National Guard units can be called up for missions ranging from combat to natural disaster response and everything in between, resulting in a broad array of communications challenges when it comes to keeping in touch with active duty units, first responders, state agencies and even each other. As just one example, National Guard units deployed to protect the United States Capitol in…
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Webcast: Data for Joint Operations
This event took place on June 15, 2022 The Defense Department plans to use data to expand the common operational picture, or COP, that informs troops about the state of the battlefield, enemy positions, and other high-value assets. Programs like the Army’s Project Convergence and Project Rainmaker, the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System, and the Navy’s Project Overmatch are intended to expand network functionality and collaboration across the services,…
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Delivering systems faster, smarter
What used to take months, perhaps years, to design is now being achieved in a matter of weeks in many cases. It’s all enabled through a concept known as digital engineering, a holistic approach to designing, developing and testing defense systems in virtual environments before any part hits the production line. And engineers at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, are no strangers to digital engineering. In fact,…