The Air Force has named Raytheon to pursue the next generation for the Distributed Common Ground System Integration Backbone. In a release, Raytheon notes that it first developed DIB under the DGCS Block 10.2 contract, delivering “more than 110 units of the software to integrate into their existing and emerging systems.” The company says that the DIB 1.2 will “extend the baseline architecture to address new requirements for more widespread sharing of data,” and will provide a means to introduce the latest technologies. DIB offers a Web-based application to share intelligence data regardless of service or intelligence agency. USAF has installed DIB at five sites.
SDA Outlines Missile Tracking Satellite Plan
April 16, 2021
The Defense Department's Space Development Agency wants to blanket Earth with a constellation of low-cost, open-architecture data-relay and missile-tracking satellites whose sheer numbers, along with their 1,000-kilometer-high orbits, would theoretically thwart some modes of interference—but not all. With all going according to plan so far, SDA expects to launch five…