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  17 février 2021 | International, Aérospatial

  Réunion de la dernière chance pour le futur avion de chasse européen

  Une réunion à huis clos s'ouvre en région parisienne avec les patrons des grands groupes de défense dans l'espoir de déminer les nombreux points de désaccords qui pèsent encore sur le projet de système de combat aérien du futur (SCAF). Répartition du travail, leadership, droits de propriété intellectuelle, la France, l'Allemagne et l'Espagne rebattent les cartes. Par Anne Bauer Publié le 17 févr. 2021 à 13:47Mis à jour le 17 févr. 2021 à 16:39 La réunion a démarré mercredi matin à huis clos, en banlieue parisienne. Ses participants ? Les patrons des principaux groupes de défense européens (Dassault, Airbus Defense and Space, Safran, MTU) et le délégué général pour l'armement, Joël Barre, accompagné de ses homologues allemand et espagnol. Personne ne sait quand la réunion finira. Après des semaines de vaines discussions sur le partage des t'ches sur le s ystème de combat aérien du futur (SCAF) , qui doit prendre la relève des Rafale et des Eurofighters dans les années 2040, il s'agit d'une dernière tentative de conciliation. Avec fumée blanche ou non à la sortie. Lors du dernier conseil de défense franco-allemand qui s'est tenu le 5 février dernier, le président français, Emmanuel Macron, et la chancelière allemande, Angela Merkel, ont répété leur volonté de faire aboutir les deux grands projets industriels lancés en 2017, le SCAF et le MGCS (char du futur), le premier sous leadership français, le second sous leadership allemand. La chancelière a néanmoins reconnu que « le projet d'avion du futur, dont le leadership a été confié à Dassault, se heurte à des questions de leadership, de partage des t'ches et de droits de propriété intellectuelle ». Bref, en clair, qu'il était dans l'impasse. https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/air-defense/exclusif-reunion-de-la-derniere-chance-pour-le-futur-avion-de-chasse-europeen-1291157

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  10 octobre 2019 | International, C4ISR

  The data challenge of space-based hypersonics defense

  By: Nathan Strout Managing data is the biggest challenge to developing a new space-based sensor layer that would help detect hypersonic weapons, the director of the Missile Defense Agency said Oct. 7. The agency is working toward building the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, a layer of sensors on orbit that would be capable of detecting and tracking hypersonic weapons that the nation's current missile defense architecture was not designed to handle. The new system will be built into the Space Development Agency's constellation of low earth orbit satellites. For Vice Adm. Jon Hill, the director of the agency, designing the sensors for the system is a surmountable engineering issue and evolving commercial launch capabilities mean it will be easy to get the technology to space once its ready. The real challenge is “the passing of track data between different space vehicles and maintaining track and dealing with clutter.” Hypersonic weapons are dimmer than traditional ballistic missiles, making them harder to detect. The sensors will have to be able to remove that clutter, detect the threat and then pass their data to the next LEO sensor, which will pick up the object as it travels around the globe at hypersonic speed. Allowing for that data flow from sensor to sensor is essential to the effective operation of the system. Hill compared the complexity of that data transfer to his time in the Navy, where information had to go between moving vessels, but the data issue with satellites is magnitudes of order more difficult. “When you put yourself on a moving body that's moving, not at 30 knots but at a much higher speed, you know, maintaining the stability of that track, being able to pull the clutter out of it, determining how much you want to process up on orbit versus how much you want to feed down and process on the ground, then how you distribute. Do you distribute directly from the sensor? Do you control the weapon from space? Or do you take it to the ground station and do it there? There [are] different trades, and we'll probably do it differently in a lot of different ways because that adds to the overall resilience of the system,” Hill said speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event October 7. Finding the right answers to those questions will be a priority for the MDA as it works to works to get the system on orbit quickly. “It's going to be a great capability. We just need to get it up there as soon as we can and rapidly proliferate,” Hill said. https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2019/10/09/the-data-challenge-of-space-based-hypersonics-defense/

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  9 décembre 2020 | International, C4ISR, Sécurité

  DoD and Australia ink first-ever cyber training partnership

  Mark Pomerleau WASHINGTON — The U.S. military and Australia announced a first-of-its-kind agreement to develop a virtual cyber training range together. U.S. Cyber Command will incorporate Australian Defence Force feedback into the Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE), per a Cyber Training Capabilities Project Arrangement signed Nov. 3. This agreement is valued at $215.19 million over six years and provides the flexibility to develop cyber training capabilities for the future, Cyber Command said in a release Dec. 4. PCTE is an online client that allows Cyber Command's warriors to log on from anywhere in the world to conduct individual or collective cyber training and mission rehearsal. In the physical world, military forces regularly go to a training facility, such as the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, to work on particular concepts or rehearse before deploying. But a robust environment has not existed for the Department of Defense's cyber warriors, creating readiness gaps. The program is run by the Army on behalf of the joint cyber force. “Australia and the U.S. have a strong history of working together to develop our cyber capabilities and train our people to fight and win in cyberspace,” said Australian Army Maj. Gen. Marcus Thompson, the Australian signatory and head of Information Warfare for the Australian Defence Force. “This arrangement will be an important part of the ADF's training program, and we look forward to the mutual benefits it will bring.” In the past, the two countries created cyber training ranges separately, which could take months and stymied cooperation efforts, Cyber Command noted. U.S. officials have long held that the military will never fight alone, and this extends to cyberspace. “This project arrangement is a milestone for U.S.-Australian cooperation. It is the first cyber-only arrangement established between the U.S. Army and an allied nation, which highlights the value of Australia's partnership in the simulated training domain,” said Elizabeth Wilson, U.S. signatory and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Defense Exports and Cooperation. “To counter known and potential adversarial threats, the Army has recalibrated our strategic thinking; we've made smart decisions to refocus our efforts to invest in the new, emerging and smart technologies that will strengthen our ability to fight and win our nation's wars.” Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, has made partnerships — with other nations, private sector actors and academia — a key pillar of his tenure. Cyber Command has deployed personnel to other nations to conduct what it calls hunt forward missions, which serve the dual role of helping shore up defenses of partners while allowing U.S. cyber personnel to potentially uncover tools used by adversaries to better understand their techniques. Congress, in the annual defense policy bill for fiscal 2021, also authorized a pilot program with Vietnam — which many cyber experts assert is rapidly growing its cyber capabilities — Thailand and Indonesia to enhance their cybersecurity, resilience and readiness of military forces. https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2020/12/04/dod-and-australia-ink-first-ever-cyber-training-partnership/