Communications

Last Thursday’s abrupt collapse of the AT&T cell network, along with recent news reports of Russian nuclear attack weapons in space, underscore threats to satellite, cellular, and cyber networks. Americans must...

The war in Ukraine lends the impression that Russia is incapable of completing basic military tasks, such as setting up a working communications network to support its forces in combat....

Last year, cables linking underwater sensors capable of detecting submarines off the coast of northern Norway were cut. Now, an 800-mile long undersea fiber-optic line between Norway and the Svalbard...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. military could solve much of its “Tower of Babel” problem by deploying TRAX. Because this is a software solution, the costs would be...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Your most important responsibility is to those under your command. You need to make sure they get the job done, sure, but you also need...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Russian and Chinese jammers will likely cause issues for NATO. The U.S. military is spending more and more on electronic-warfare systems, all in a desperate...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: His reference to a “distributed” force also seems quite deliberate, as longer range, higher-fidelity, secure undersea connectivity is crucial to the Navy’s Distributed Maritime...

The Army has achieved breakthrough levels of networking, targeting, and high-speed sensor to shooter pairing during its latest Project Convergence exercise in Yuma, Arizona. Military officials have learned through this exercise that although an enemy’s unmanned aircraft approaching for attack...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The two most advanced U.S. fighter aircraft, the fifth-generation F-22 and F-35, have difficulties communicating not only with older, fourth-generation aircraft but with each other....

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Part of the challenge is finding ways to minimize Navy submarine vulnerability to enemy detection and attack by simply remaining at safer depths, yet in...

Here’s What You Need To Remember:  As Navy innovators work intensely to pioneer new methods of undersea communication, many might wish to reflect upon the decades of technical challenges associated...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The advent of new kinds of transport layer communications, coupled with emerging technologies woven into unmanned systems, are beginning to introduce potential new avenues of...