DefenceTalkResearchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a centimeter-accurate GPS-based positioning system that could revolutionize geolocation on virtual reality headsets, cellphones and other technologies, making global positioning and orientation far more precise than what is currently available on a mobile device. The researchers’ new system could […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-gps-system-could-transform-virtual-reality-and-mobile-devices-64167/

DefenceTalkThe Russian military is to test its new mobile communications system, which is superior to its foreign alternatives, during the Vostok-2014 strategic exercise in Russia’s Eastern Military District, the Defense Ministry announced Thursday. “In the course of the Vostok-2014 strategic exercise, which will be conducted in September of this year in the Eastern Military District, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-test-new-mobile-communications-system-during-vostok-2014-exercise-59980/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have delivered the second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) spacecraft to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., where it will be prepared for a July liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. MUOS vastly improves current secure mobile satellite communications. It links mobile users for the first […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-and-lockheed-deliver-newest-secure-communications-satellite-for-mobile-users-47776/

DefenceTalkThe Army agrees with the recently released DOD Inspector General report that found two Army organizations did not follow policies for tracking and configuring commercial mobile devices using the Android, Apple iOS, and Windows operating systems between October 2010 and May 2012. Both the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-assures-commercial-mobile-devices-are-secure-47443/