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The AUKUS nations will run simultaneous innovation challenges in a first-of-its-kind program seeking solutions in electronic warfare. Australian industry and academic outlets are invited to respond to a request for proposals for the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s first AUKUS Innovation Challenge. This challenge will focus on Defence’s ability to leverage electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) technologies and capabilities that provide a competitive advantage to electromagnetic targeting, and those that protect Defence from adversary electromagnetic targeting capabilities. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gX4E4zUG

⏩ Quantum Technologies for Air and Space - Quantum-Enhanced Radars and Electronic Warfare: Use Cases and Timelines ⏪ is the title of my latest paper, which is based on great discussions with individual experts on various aspects of warfighting from the Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC). The goal is to provide a more realistic analysis of possible quantum technology utilisation in the space and air domain and in the near term, let's say by 2030. This part deals with the RF domain, which is crucial for these domains. The next part will focus on the PNT. https://lnkd.in/eY-msbyQ #quantum #quantumdefence #quantumsecurity #defence

Is AT&T's new spectrum proposal Dead on Arrival? AT&T recently unveiled their vision for the 3 GHz band, and let's just say, it hasn't been well-received. Essentially, AT&T is proposing to move the current Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS) operating between 3.55 and 3.7 GHz to the lower end of the band, specifically 3.1 to 3.3 GHz, through an "incentive auction." While they're proposing an incentive auction to shift the CBRS band, the challenges they face are massive—from navigating naval radar interference to relocating a huge ecosystem of current users. In tomorrow's edition of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙧, I break down the AT&T proposal and explain the major roadblocks they face and what would need to happen for this proposal to still see the light of day (despite all odds). If you're curious about what would need to happen for this proposal to work, subscribe to the newsletter at the link below. You'll be the first to receive weekly high-quality content to help you tackle complex strategic challenges in the telecom industry. https://lnkd.in/gjQhkuWw Q: How would you respond if you were forced to move your CBRS deployment? Please like 👍🏼 Please comment 💪🏼 Please share 👊🏼

A small box sitting in a Conex shipping container on a New Zealand navy supply vessel off Hawaii may be the answer to why Australia has decided to get its own quantum computer in a commercial partnership with little-known company PsiQuantum. Inside the box – loaded on to the HMNZS Aotearoa – were three quantum clocks and several atomic sensors. Australian officials were among a group of Five Eyes intelligence allies who observed whether the boxes could reliably plot the ship’s navigational path as it sailed for three weeks as part of the 2022 PACRIM navy exercise. Modern ships and planes and their high-tech weaponry are heavily reliant on satellite GPS. Defence planners have long worried how vulnerable military information systems are to GPS being taken out by an adversary. The Hawaii demonstration proved a navy ship could sail without GPS assistance in real-world maritime conditions, prompting US Air Force researchers to declare quantum-based navigation was likely to be ready for the real world within three to five years. GPS doesn’t work underwater, and the same tech could be equally revolutionary for next-generation submarines. Hello AUKUS. Noting the Five Eyes clock trial, the same researchers from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in the US earlier this year released three major papers calling for the US to work with its allies through the AUKUS agreement to fast-track quantum defence capability. https://lnkd.in/gz3ZGZTs

A brilliant and must read for anyone associated with the field of #RFSampling, #ElectronicWarfare, #DSP specialists who are into Interleaving Mismatch and IQ Imbalance estimators and correctors. This white paper can give you the general and specific context of why certain engineering decisions are made, specifically in the field of EW and Defense embedded systems. This clearly showcases #ADI's capabilities and the edge it has over the competitors, due to the deep understanding of the problems faced by our #customers Thanks for sharing, Maura Payne. As a Design Evaluation Manager who had the opportunity to handle some of these parts and as an engineer who is directly or indirectly involved in solving our customer's problems, I was able to relate to and learn from this paper. Brilliantly described Ian Beavers, Peter Delos, @Brian Reggiannini, @Connor Bryant

Australian Department of Defence has revised its need for resilient, secure satellite communications, by focussing on a multi-orbit capability, rather than a single GEO-based satellite communications system. This appears to mean the end of the approximately AUD$3bn JP9102 project and the associated tender process, which was apparently in the final stages of negotiation with Lockheed Martin Australia. While a multi-orbit capability seems like a sensible approach in respect of resilience, what this means for the relationship - not just the legal relationship, but broader relationship too - between the two entities is not yet known. I hope there is a positive way ahead. https://lnkd.in/gkWG5-Mi

I see the word resilience. Were there any capabilities for this system to offer improved communications pre, during or post disaster events or improve emergency communications? We’ve already had the BoM and CSIRO joint-venture satellite scrapped that could have improved predicting disaster events and communication.. If there was even 5% improvement capability in communications for our frontline workers, and it is scrapped - all involved in the scrapping of it should be stood down immediately, with heads hung in shame, with more serious repercussions ensuing! A sovereign resilience fund of even 10% of AUKUS or the COVID-19 ‘response’ (over $500 billion) should be put aside and locked in to law so that it can never be stripped for initiatives such as this system. It’ll earn interest as we’ve seen from Morrison’s Emergency Fund $4 billion fiasco that was scrapped after earning a billion in profit with no projects funded. Mind you, the billion put aside by Albanese for disasters over 5 years would still be earning $200 million roughly a year. 🤔 🛑 stop putting science, pre-preparedness and sovereign moon-shot ideas in the bin and discrediting our hard work, you’re becoming scarier than our adversaries when it comes to taking our power and industries away from our hands 🛑

I think this is a fair point and I have experienced this on both sides of the fence. But, the decision to respond to tender is always a cost/risk analysis, it could go pear shaped, but if you win in defence it’s a nice long revenue stream at a fair margin. The, ‘oh we’ve upset industry,’ issue not at the core of this, but it is important. What is, is how far both entities got down the pipe before termination, and that just isn’t on the current government. I keep saying it, you have got to look systematically at this, at behaviours and the temporal aspects. Or it will inevitably happen again, shin kicking defence (or the government of the day (unless it’s tenure is over the project life)) hasn’t worked in the past, nor will it again. It also wastes money on the government side and deeply impacts the staff involved, something neglected in public comment.

https://lnkd.in/eSccERim My take on the new US EW jammer, meant to be complementary to the CCS system (which is the only offensive counterspace system the US will acknowledge it has):