AR9- News and Media, page-26

Some Friday night homework....

Looks as though the whole US Military/DoD had been undergoing a push to upgrade their battle systems (individually) across the board.

Each military department had it's own venture:

AirForce - ABMS (Advanced Battle Management System)
Army - Project Convergence
Navy - Project Overmatch

October 19 2020 - "Air Force and Army leaders recently reached an agreement to partner more closely on joint all-domain command and control over the next two years, hoping that collaboration will help achieve their combat goals faster."

Ref - https://www.airforcemag.com/usaf-army-move-forward-under-new-command-and-control-agreement/

introducingJADC2 StrategyJADC2 is the Department of Defense's (DOD's) concept to connect. sensors from all of the military services—Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Space Force—into a single network.

“We’re trying to build the interconnected digital infrastructure needed to allow individual services to bring their own capabilities and connect to one another”


So how will JADC2 connect each department? Could an Australian company like Archtis help?

"Adding “C” for “combined” to the JADC2 acronym indicates the military is starting to think more seriously about bringing foreign partners into the network as well, on top of connecting the U.S. armed forces.

Ref - https://www.airforcemag.com/usaf-army-move-forward-under-new-command-and-control-agreement/


All the above and then some interesting news flow over last 6 months....

2/03/2021 - ARCHTIS LAUNCHES US FEDERAL AND DEFENCE CHANNEL
Ref - https://www.archtis.com/archtis-launches-us-federal-and-defense-sales-and-channel-practice/

April 2021 - "RAYTHEONAustralia selects Archtis for their capability plus program. Aiming to assist small and medium-sized Australian businesses win defence contracts within Australia and globally."
Ref - https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/key-enablers/7850-raytheon-australia-reveals-ten-australian-smes-to-take-part-in-capability-plus-program

Bit of history on Raytheon....

June 26 2020 - "RAYTHEON awarded contract to aid ABMS System Development (Airforce)"

Ref - https://www.mwrf.com/markets/defense/article/21135319/raytheon-receives-invite-to-aid-abms-development

Speaking of Airforce... who do we know from the US Airforce? Only our newly appointed Director of Archtis US Business Unit, Bill Kalogeros.


25/01/2021 - "NATO SELECTS THALES TO SUPPLY ITS FIRST DEFENCE CLOUD FOR THE ARMED FORCES"

Ref - https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/group/journalist/press-release/nato-selects-thales-supply-its-first-defence-cloud-armed-forces

01/06/2021 - "ARCHTIS PARTNERS WITH THALES TO DELIVER CLOUD..."

Ref - https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/australia/press-release/world-leading-partnership-deliver-cloud-computing-edge-battlespaceNexium Defence Cloud

Not only was Nexium Defence Cloud selected by Nato. It also enables deployed forces to securely share critical information across domains, multinational coalitions and other agencies.

Is this all just too coincidental?

Too many connections IMHO. As always, DYOR.

Something big underway.