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Mosaic 1:
https://eurasiantimes.com/us-plans-...tellites-russian-chinese-hypersonic-missiles/
The launch of these 28 spacecraft is expected to begin in late 2024. It would increase the number of missile-detection satellites in the Tracking Tranche 0, a batch of eight satellites currently being built by L3Harris and SpaceX for launch in 2023.
https://searchcloudcomputing.techta...ft-launches-Azure-Government-Top-Secret-cloud
Last year, Microsoft launched Azure Space to compete in the space segment of the infrastructure-as-a-service market. The company has partnered with Elon Musk's SpaceX to jointly develop connections between SpaceX's satellite-delivered Starlink broadband and Microsoft's Azure Modular Datacenter (MDC).
wonderfulengineering.com
Microsoft Has Been Chosen To Build Advanced Chips For The U.S Military
"It was further stated that the Navy and Air Force both desire to leverage commercial capabilities to develop a RAMP prototype methodology. This means that the government is going to be one of the major users of these new futuristic chips."
WO2021206800 - DISTRIBUTED NEUROMORPHIC INFRASTRUCTURE
US20210105421 - NEUROMORPHIC VISION WITH FRAME-RATE IMAGING FOR TARGET DETECTION AND TRACKING
Mosaic 2:
https://news.northropgrumman.com/ne...-tracking-space-sensor-critical-design-review
Northrop Grumman Completes Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor Critical Design Review
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently completed the critical design review of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) prototype for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The review establishes the company’s technical approach for precise, timely sensor coverage to defeat ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
https://www.flightglobal.com/milita...rsonic-missile-testing-sensors/146832.article
Northrop to modify four EQ-4 Global Hawks with hypersonic missile testing sensors
The Department of Defense granted Northrop Grumman a contract to start reconfiguring four US Air Force (USAF) EQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with sensors for tracking hypersonic missiles during tests.
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US300738519
US20200249080 - OPTICAL INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM
Applicants
THOMAS EDMUND PETTY
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Abstract
An optical information collection system includes a neuromorphic sensor to collect optical information from a scene in response to change in photon flux detected at a plurality of photoreceptors of the neuromorphic sensor. A sensor stimulator stimulates a subset of the plurality of photoreceptors according to an eye movement pattern in response to a control command. A controller generates the control command that includes instructions to execute the eye movement pattern
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/loud...ntelligence-activity-6610404160271601665-ADx0
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-pentagon-plans-deter-hypersonic-missile-attacks-197870
How the Pentagon Plans to Deter Hypersonic Missile Attacks
Computer processing is becoming faster and increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence.
If there is a way to stop hypersonic missile attacks, then it will likely rely heavily upon data sharing, high-speed data processing and artificial intelligence
the Defense Department is focused on developing new Hypersonic Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor technology that would establish a continuous track of fast-moving hypersonic missiles from “beyond-line-of-sight” by networking small satellites to one another.
“A method of doing that is potentially processing some of that data in real-time to a weapons database and transfer that data from the satellite system down to the weapon,” Mike Ciffone, Northrop Grumman’s director of Strategy, Capture & Operations,
For instance, some of the data processing can potentially be artificial-intelligence-enabled and also performed at the point of data receipt, essentially wherever the incoming sensor data first arrives.
https://www.flightglobal.com/milita...rsonic-missile-testing-sensors/146832.article
Northrop to modify four EQ-4 Global Hawks with hypersonic missile testing sensors
The US Department of Defense granted Northrop Grumman a contract to start reconfiguring four US Air Force (USAF) EQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with sensors for tracking hypersonic missiles during tests.
The ”SkyRange” programme will integrate four EQ-4s with sensors to show that the UAVs can collect data on hypersonic missile tests. Modifications will be done at Northrop’s Grand Sky UAV-testing facility near Grand Forks, North Dakota.
https://news.northropgrumman.com/ne...skyrange-program-for-us-department-of-defense
Northrop Grumman Global Hawk to Expand Participation in SkyRange Program for US Department of Defense
The SkyRange program will equip the four high-altitude, long-endurance EQ-4 aircraft with sensors to demonstrate an alternative data collection support system to support testing U.S. hypersonic systems. Modifications of the Block 20 jets are expected to occur at Northrop Grumman’s Grand Sky facility near Grand Forks, North Dakota.
“The SkyRange program exploits the intrinsic strengths of Global Hawk – altitude, persistence, payload, and flexibility,” said Jane Bishop, vice president and general manager, global surveillance, Northrop Grumman. “Grand Sky’s high-tech facility with a modern 35,000 square foot hangar provides the ideal location for engineering modifications to Global Hawk in support of the SkyRange program.
interesting history:
from Dec 16, 2020
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-contract-for-global-hawk-skyrange-program
NASA Awards Contract for Global Hawk Skyrange Program
NASA has selected Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (NGSC) of San Diego to provide demonstration engineering, manufacturing, and technical support for the Global Hawk Skyrange program at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.The firm-fixed price contract begins Tuesday, Dec. 15, and runs through Dec. 14, 2025, with a total value of $70 million with no options.The Skyrange program will obtain engineering, technical and fight operations, and maintenance support from NGSC for the program at Armstrong. Skyrange goals are to equip high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft with sensors to demonstrate an alternative data collection support system for remote long-range flight test activities.
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/...development-agency-orders-more-work-on-hyper/
Space Development Agency orders more work on hypersonic missile tracking
L3Harris Technologies and Moog Engineering have received a $7.87 million contract for supplemental work with the Space Development Agency (SDA) on satellites to track hypersonic missiles.The two companies will support work to ‘develop and deliver space vehicles to detect and track hypersonic vehicles from low Earth orbit [LEO]’, the DoD announced on 14 December.
https://www.tullahomanews.com/news/business/l3harris-completes-final-us-missile-defense-agency-satellite-design-milestone/article_8ce9b1e6-b4f1-5683-a434-507c37888dc9.html
L3Harris Completes Final US Missile Defense Agency Satellite Design Milestone
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) completed the final major design milestone on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration and has already begun building the demonstration satellite.
HBTSS is one of several proposed systems within the Department of Defense’s next-generation proliferated low-Earth orbit space architecture. The program’s objective is to demonstrate the capability to detect and track traditional and emerging missile threats using infrared sensors and advanced processing capability.
www.australiandefence.com.au
