DefenceTalkA new portfolio of scalable welfare satcoms services for UK military personnel has been introduced by Airbus Defence and Space. The focus of the new Wel2Go portfolio is to provide reliable, value for money and easy to transport, deploy and operate private communication channels in the field. The new mobile connectivity suite is part of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/airbus-ds-unveils-new-mobile-welfare-communication-portfolio-64703/

DefenceTalkWith vehicles that are equipped with a new high-bandwidth networking radio, Soldiers can move across the battlefield, rapidly exchanging mission-critical voice messages, images and video with their commanders. Using line-of-sight communications waveforms that are not dependent on satellites, mid-tier networking vehicular radios, or MNVRs, provide ground-level connectivity, which link Soldiers at the company level with […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-armys-mid-tier-radio-advances-battlefield-network-64345/

DefenceTalkTiny Army satellites may someday provide Soldiers with voice, data and even visual communications in remote areas, which lack such communications. Already some of that technology has been successfully tested, Dr. Travis Taylor said. Taylor is the senior scientist for Space Division, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command – Tech Center, or SMDC, at […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nano-satellites-may-soon-communicate-with-soldiers-from-space-64219/

DefenceTalkThe US military command that scans North America’s skies for enemy missiles and aircraft plans to move its communications gear to a Cold War-era mountain bunker, officers said. The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command’s sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-aerospace-command-moving-comms-gear-back-to-cold-war-bunker-63748/

DefenceTalkLifting off from Baikonur at 01:05 am Moscow Time on Thursday, March 19, the Proton-M integrated launch vehicle (ILV) successfully orbited the Airbus DS–built Express AM-7 telecommunications satellite for Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC), under the Russian Federal Program, “Development of TV and Radio Broadcasting in the Russian Federation for 2009–2015”. This second launch of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/proton-successfully-launches-the-express-am-7-satellite-for-the-russia-63578/

DefenceTalkUnits of Russia’s signals troops began on Monday large-scale communications field exercises in nine regions of the Eastern Military District, the district’s press service said. “The drills envision the use of advanced relay broadcast stations, mobile video-conferencing systems, modern radio stations and satellite communications that were put in service with the Eastern Military District in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-starts-large-scale-communications-drills-in-9-regions-63562/

DefenceTalkThe electromagnetic environment in most space systems is typically very complex. Recent advances in communications technologies and electronic devices has created numerous emitters of radio frequency energy that were not present before the turn of the century. Launch vehicle and on-orbit space platforms must be properly designed and constructed to deal effectively with the wideband […]https://www.defencetalk.com/understanding-the-electromagnetic-environmental-effects-on-space-systems-63471/

DefenceTalkMultiple countries, especially China and Russia, pose a grave threat to US space security systems with advanced technologies they have developed that can disrupt satellite communications and operations, the head of US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), Navy Admiral Cecil D. Haney, said on Friday. “US national security space systems are facing a serious growing threat,” Haney […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-concerned-by-growing-expertise-of-china-russia-space-capabilities-62850/

DefenceTalkThe Army’s Stryker vehicle, designed to quickly move Soldiers into a combat zone, is swift and mobile. Now its communications equipment will be, too. Strykers in the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team/2nd Infantry Division, also known as 2/2 SBCT, are being retrofitted with the Army’s new tactical communications network, increasing Soldiers’ ability to communicate over […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-equips-stryker-unit-with-new-communications-technology-62479/

DefenceTalkThe Army’s science and technology and acquisition communities have teamed with the Army G-3/5/7, G2 and Cyber Command to provide senior leaders a closer look into converging operational and intelligence traffic onto the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, or WIN-T, transport. Network Transport Convergence describes the merging of command and control, intelligence, logistics and medical systems onto […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-takes-next-step-to-merge-c2-intelligence-traffic-onto-win-t-62069/