This past week, I had the pleasure of being in New York City amongst six of the world’s most innovative small companies.  We shared a common bond as integrator resellers of Persistent Systems, LLC.   All are focused on defense, albeit in different geographies and all with a variation of market focus.  By the end of

During an emergency, be it natural or man-made, people will have to be moved or sheltered in place. The National Incident Management System or NIMS does not give tremendous amount guidance about how to gauge the effectiveness of measuring population density in an afflicted area. Any tool that could help to gauge population density would be helpful to

MissionMobility has been helping deployed forces tie back into their home networks for a long time.  Driving data to the edge of the mission isn’t new but for the last decade it has been gaining steam, because it is generally understood that more data to more users makes for smarter employment of forces.  As always

Are you paranoid regarding your data and communications? The Internet can be a virtual playground where one can truly honor and live up to the creed of Office Space’s Peter Gibbons, but it isn’t that sort of complacency this entry refers to.  Former CEO of Intel Andrew Grove warns us, “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds

Even though Obama’s 2013 Inauguration greeted only 900,000 people compared to the 1.6 million four years ago, wireless carriers experienced such a surge in data usage on the DC Mall that communication failures abounded. The result: many calls, tweets, texts, and emails failed to get through. In the 12 years since the 9/11attacks a lot has

In a previous post, I mused on bandwidth. This time I’m focusing on how remote users can receive more bandwidth.  The latest SATCOM system, Ka-band,  has been the talk of the industry for a while now.   This new frequency was first demonstrated with ACTS (NASA’s Advanced Communications Technology Satellite) in 1993, but hasn’t showed much steam until recently with…Yahsat,