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🚨 Now accepting applications to Thunderstorm 24-4 for “Expeditionary Operations”! 🚨 👉 Thunderstorm brings together tech developers and DoD reps with a focus on specific mission areas or technologies. Companies get visibility by motivated DoD reps and feedback, as well as in-sector B2B connections. DoD reps get insight into new-to-us tech that helps solve their specific challenges. 👉 What is Thunderstorm 24-4? In partnership with the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab and other DoD partners, Thunderstorm 24-4 will focus on exploring emerging solutions for navigating and detecting threats in unfamiliar and potentially contested environments, enabling continued communications with far forward deployed forces, and ensuring deployed forces can access key supplies. Whether it's making supply delivery more resilient or providing the ability to generate and maintain critical resources like food, power, and parts at the point of need, this showcase is where innovation meets critical operational needs. 👉 What is “Expeditionary Operations”? Here’s the highlights; see the RFI for full details. 👉 👉 👉 Expeditionary Command and Control (C2): Examples include robust/secure and extended range comms to support expeditionary operations in remote and contested environments, particularly satellite-denied areas. 👉👉 👉 Enhanced Mobility and Awareness: Includes UxS navigation while LPI/LPD; operations in GPS-denied environment; and situational awareness tools that convey the location of friendly forces and other relevant entities. 👉👉 👉 Resilient Logistics / Point of Need Generation / Casualty Care: Sustaining forces during expeditionary operations will strain logistical support capabilities. Innovation solutions can ensure critical deliveries reach their destination, enable deployed forces to produce resources in-situ, or prolong the functionality of deployed assets. 👉 When and where? Thunderstorm 24-4 is 04-08 November in Fredericksburg, VA. 👉 How to submit? Visit the RFI and complete a streamlined application describing your proposed solution. The deadline is 5PM on 09 August. We’ll review applications with MCWL and notify you in late August if you’re selected for Thunderstorm 24-4. 🚨 Click here for more details about the RFI and to apply: https://lnkd.in/ep5Q9_4m 🚨 ✉ Message me if you’d like to be added to our email distro list for other I&M events like this, including JIFX, Thunderstorm, JPEM, and our Solutions Meetings. #DefenseInnovation #DoD #DoDInnovationand #SBIR #STTR #GovernmentInnovation #DualUseTech #DualUse #AUKUS

R&P Awarded $78 Million Contract to Support U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Program Office R&P Technologies, LLC, a provider of professional, technology, industrial and management services, announced that the Company has been awarded a contract to continue its support to the U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Program Office (PMS 377) with a full range of professional support services. The focus of services being procured includes Ship Acquisition, Technical Issue Resolution, Technical/System Integration, Change Management, Ship Production, Testing, GFE/GFI Support, and Post-Delivery for platforms under PMS 377’s cognizance. PMS 377 is responsible for the Amphibious Assault Ship Replacement (LHA(R)) (to include Flight 0 and Flight 1 and any future and/or emerging follow- on) Acquisition Program, the Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD 17) amphibious ships (to include Flight I and Flight II and any future and/or emerging follow-on) Acquisition Program, the Amphibious Assault Direction System (AADS) Acquisition and Life Cycle Management Program, and the Blue Force Tracker 2 (BFT-2) Program. The recompete contract has a one-year base period plus four one-year option periods and is valued at $78 million, if all options are exercised.  The business began providing support to PMS 377 in 2009 as a subcontractor, and since then the program support has grown from 8 personnel to approximately 80 today. This was a critical recompete win for R&P, as it reinforces our ability to deliver high quality, integrated services for the U.S. Navy,” said Jeff Riedel, CEO of R&P Technologies.  “R&P is a sophisticated Small Business provider of naval new construction and modernization services and winning programs like PMS 377 will continue to be a strategic priority for the Company going forward.” The Company’s services under this contract enable these vessels to be deployed on amphibious missions including airborne/and seaborne assaults on hostile shores, as well as humanitarian support role for natural disasters.

For soldiers on the ground, situational awareness is a matter of life and death. They need access to real-time intelligence information to make quick and accurate decisions in high-pressure situations. Explore more on why situational awareness is so critical for #military forces today, the role that #satellite technology plays and how Viasat is partnering with U.S. military forces to enhance their operational resilience. https://vsat.co/49gohbB

Enable the Warfighter. Where operational context and information meet. That's where decisions and innovation should aim to land. As for the rest of us - Enhance and enrich the system of systems to elevate the Warfighter. Rid the policy and process of hubris and static nature and remove non-value added human interactions. Challenge accepted?

Anduril Industries is thrilled to announce Menace-X, an expeditionary command, control, communications, and computing (C4) vehicle-based system that extends strategic and operational-level capabilities to the tactical edge. Built to operate in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) communication environments, Menace-X enables resilient command and control of complex mission sets, such as deep sensing and coordination of maritime surface fires, in a highly-mobile form factor. Current C2 solutions require large logistical footprints, significant set-up time, and specialized training. With logistics and communications networks of forward-deployed and stand-in forces increasingly at risk of adversary targeting, warfighters need to quickly disperse, maneuver, and communicate across distributed forces to sustain operations at the edge while under multi-domain attack. This is where Menace-X comes into play. Menace-X is easily transported by MV-22, CH-53, MH-47, C-130 and almost any other air and naval platform to provide on-demand C2 anywhere on Earth. It is designed with warfighters in mind, featuring an intuitive and ergonomic interface activated at the flip of a switch, allowing operators to easily observe and control power, communications, and compute subsystems. Operators can use government-furnished software or Anduril’s Lattice C2 suite for tasking live assets and workflows to generate effects on the battlefield, or use built-in applications for battle space analytics, collaborative planning, automated threat detection, and high-value targeting. Menace-X expands the Menace family of expeditionary C4 solutions by delivering operational-level capabilities to the tactical edge, furthering the reach of the joint force inside contested areas. The system has been successfully demonstrated at several U.S. military exercises, including the Marine Corps’ Weapons & Tactics Instructor course and the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence Capstone event, and is deploying globally across 2024. #military #defense #defence #militaryleak https://lnkd.in/giYPuSfs

Quick read - and awesome use case for 3D printing in a real life application.

The abilities of our young generation to seize technological initiatives should not be seen as anything less than a massive military weapon. This Marine not only saved money, valuable time, and resources, but also demonstrated the adaptability and forward-thinking spirit of the Marine Corps. Sgt. Pugh's initiative is a prime example of how non-kinetic solutions can enhance our military's lethality. By applying this new technology, he has contributed to the essence of maneuver warfare – the ability to adapt, overcome, and outmaneuver challenges in dynamic environments. This accomplishment highlights the strategic deterrence capabilities of our Marine Corps. By enabling and integrating such innovative practices, we send a clear message about our readiness and capabilities to our adversaries. The Marine Corps investment toward educating the force, reinforces our position in global defense strategies. Congratulations Sergeant of Marines for setting a stellar example of innovation and dedication. I am certain that your story will inspire a wave of modernization initiatives that will continue to expand throughout the force. #Innovation #MilitaryExcellence #3DPrinting #MarineCorps #StrategicDeterrence #ManeuverWarfare #a2d

Redefining Modern Warfare Tactics: In my latest article, I delve into innovative strategies that emphasize exploiting vulnerabilities in military command and control systems and technological dependencies, rather than traditional combat methods. From targeting GPS reliance to manipulating command structures, discover how modern warfare is evolving beyond brute strength to a game of strategic vulnerability exploitation. A must-read for those interested in military strategy and modern conflict dynamics. #MilitaryTactics #ModernWarfare #CyberStrategy https://lnkd.in/e7nz3bQw

Project Overmatch is a key initiative for Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, who sees it as an opportunity to gain advantages and think differently about how to integrate disruptive and emerging technologies to adapt to changes in warfare. “Through Project Overmatch, we’re building a software-defined network solution and modern software pipelines to provide as many pathways as is possible to connect and share information. This initiative is an effort to transmit any data over any network and is the connective tissue between today’s fleet and tomorrow’s emerging hybrid fleet,” she said Tuesday at the conference. “In using that connectivity, we’re working to evolve Aegis and the ship self-defense system into a single, hardware-agnostic software suite, like the integrated combat system, that all ships can pull from to conduct missions alone or in a group. This system will enable a surface action group, a strike group and a fleet, or any combination of integrated combat system-equipped ships to operate as a single, seamless system and become a true system of systems.”

Key tenets of information warfare include: situational awareness, assured command-and-control, and integrating of intel and firepower.