Telecommunications got another runaround in this issue; the software guide also happened to mention programs for the Macintosh. A new online service specifically for Apple dealers, AppleLink, was described. The article on CD-ROMs included a picture of a drive hooked up to an Apple IIe, although the drive looked to be larger than that computer. While Maggie Canon's editorial mentioned she'd "made a wager in a recent editorial that Steve Jobs would return to assume a useful role at Apple Computer," she now had to mention he'd "stormed out with five employees and Apple promptly filed a lawsuit to protect technology developed at Apple." She could, though, also mention "the fourth quarter of 1985 was Apple's most profitable ever" (due to "streamlined operation and effective cost cutting") and "the other Steve, the Woz" had "recently reinvested in Apple, reportedly to the tune of $5 million."
Sharon Amezcua is the Co-Founder of ESE Partners, LLC and ESE Fund Ltd., a future financial services company (and associated private equity fund) that builds and invests in emerging and established companies in targeted sectors across the world. She is also the Co-Founder of the technology transfer companies G3 and SSG LLC, both of which are owned and managed by women at the top of their fields, and were initially created to build companies in the US, Europe and the Middle East/North African regions. ESE, G3 and SSG focus on traditional industries converging with new technologies, particularly in hardware/software/media/telecommunications, healthcare, alternative energy and financial services.
Sharon has more than 30 years of experience in creating, operating, growing and exiting businesses profitably. She was previously Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and CEO of MCC Global NV, an old-style merchant bank, created in 1999, that she and her team built and took public on the Frankfurt stock exchange in 2006. Sharon developed a proprietary “de-risking” process for the 500+ emerging and established companies that MCC either created, invested in or assisted in developing. She also gained extensive fund management experience at MCC Global in her role as the Vice Chairman of Moore Clayton Capital Advisors, Inc. and Vice President of Equus II, MCC Global’s fund management company and its NYSE-listed fund, respectively.
Prior to establishing MCC Global, Sharon owned Presentations, an international strategic advisory firm. The firm specialized in working with senior executives to set strategy, formulate business planning and implement strategies for emerging and established companies such as New Energy, Inc., which grew from a start-up to a $1B revenue run rate in 18 months. It was sold to a large conglomerate and is still the largest deregulated energy services company in the US.
Prior to launching Presentations, Sharon was the International Vice President of Business Development for Dimax Controls Company, Inc., a multi-national energy engineering company based in Toronto, Ontario. Other positions early in Sharon’s career included: Director of Business Development for the financial services and commercial real estate industries at Johnson Controls, Inc., Sales Manager at Marriott’s Bay Point Resort, Director of Sales at TrimbleHouse Corporation and Account Manager/Private Banking at the First National Bank of Atlanta, which became Wachovia.
Sharon’s international leadership in strategy, management, business development, corporate finance and investment banking for emerging and established companies has produced (and continues to produce) sustainable competitive advantages, differentiated business models and significant returns for shareholders. Over the past ~30 years and in her role as investor, advisor, operator and/or Board Director for many American, Canadian, UK, European, Middle Eastern, African, Asian and New Zealand-based public and private companies, she has assisted in building and financing hundreds of companies.
F5 confirmed that a nation-state threat actor compromised multiple internal systems, exfiltrating portions of BIG-IP source code and details of unreleased vulnerabilities. Following the disclosure, the Shadowserver Foundation reported over 266,000 BIG-IP instances exposed online, raising the risk of follow-on exploitation.
Cisco addressed a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-20352) in its IOS/IOS XE software that had been exploited to install Linux rootkits on network devices. Attackers used the flaw to gain persistent access by implanting fileless components within IOSd memory.
Microsoft revoked over 200 fraudulent software-signing certificates used by the Vanilla Tempest group to distribute ransomware through fake Microsoft Teams installers. The company also patched a critical ASP.NET Core vulnerability assigned its highest-ever severity score due to the potential for request smuggling and data manipulation.
Envoy Air, a subsidiary of American Airlines, confirmed a compromise of its Oracle E-Business Suite platform, following extortion claims by the Clop group. Separately, peer-to-peer lender Prosper reported that the personal data of 17.6 million customers had been stolen, though no account or fund access was detected.
Sotheby’s disclosed a breach involving the theft of sensitive customer information, including Social Security numbers. Investigations into the scope of the incident are ongoing.
In law enforcement developments, Europol dismantled a large-scale SIM-box operation known as SIMCARTEL, linked to over 3,200 cases of telecommunications fraud across Europe and losses exceeding €4.5 million. Authorities seized tens of thousands of SIM cards used for criminal communication services.
Researchers from Cisco Talos observed a North Korean hacking group merging the functions of its BeaverTail and OtterCookie JavaScript malware to enhance persistence and stealth. In a related campaign, Google reported North Korean actors using EtherHiding, a blockchain-based method for distributing cryptocurrency-stealing malware.
Numerous high-severity Linux kernel vulnerabilities dominate today’s advisories, with multiple distributions and Red Hat products affected. Significant vendor patches also address network infrastructure and endpoint risks from Cisco, browser engine flaws in Google Chrome/Microsoft Edge, and code-execution or privilege-escalation bugs in WatchGuard, Apache and Zimbra.
Highlights of the day:
Microsoft revokes 200 fraudulent certificates: Vanilla Tempest used fake Teams installers signed with stolen certificates to spread the Oyster backdoor and Rhysida ransomware through SEO poisoning campaigns.
Critical WatchGuard VPN flaw enables remote code execution: CVE-2025-9242 in Fireware OS allows unauthenticated attackers to run code via IKEv2, impacting over 250,000 Firebox appliances.
Prosper data breach exposes 17.6 million accounts: Attackers accessed sensitive financial and personal data, including Social Security numbers and government IDs, though no customer funds were compromised.
Microsoft patches critical ASP.NET Core flaw rated 9.9 CVSS: CVE-2025-55315, a Kestrel HTTP request smuggling bug, could let attackers hijack sessions or bypass security controls across multiple .NET versions.
Europol dismantles SIM farm network enabling massive cyber fraud: Operation SIMCARTEL seized 40,000 SIM cards and 1,200 SIM boxes used to create 49 million fake accounts for fraud and phishing across Europe.
F5 confirms source code theft in BIG-IP breach: A nation-state actor accessed F5’s development systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and vulnerability data, though no supply chain tampering was detected.
NASA and Italian Space Agency test future lunar navigation technology
As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration.
A technology demonstration helping pave the way for these developments is the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) payload, a joint effort between NASA and the Italian Space Agency to demonstrate the viability of using existing GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals for positioning, navigation, and timing on the moon.
During its voyage on an upcoming delivery to the moon as part of NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, LuGRE would demonstrate acquiring and tracking signals from both the U.S. GPS and European Union Galileo GNSS constellations during transit to the moon, during lunar orbit, and finally for up to two weeks on the lunar surface itself.
The LuGRE payload is one of the first demonstrations of GNSS signal reception and navigation on and around the lunar surface, an important milestone for how lunar missions will access navigation and positioning technology.
If successful, LuGRE would demonstrate that spacecraft can use signals from existing GNSS satellites at lunar distances, reducing their reliance on ground-based stations on the Earth for lunar navigation.
Today, GNSS constellations support essential services like navigation, banking, power grid synchronization, cellular networks, and telecommunications. Near-Earth space missions use these signals in flight to determine critical operational information like location, velocity, and time.
NASA and the Italian Space Agency want to expand the boundaries of GNSS use cases. In 2019, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission broke the world record for farthest GPS signal acquisition 116,300 miles from the Earth's surface—nearly half of the 238,900 miles between Earth and the moon. Now, LuGRE could double that distance.
"GPS makes our lives safer and more viable here on Earth," said Kevin Coggins, NASA deputy associate administrator and SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) Program manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "As we seek to extend humanity beyond our home planet, LuGRE should confirm that this extraordinary technology can do the same for us on the moon."
Reliable space communication and navigation systems play a vital role in all NASA missions, providing crucial connections from space to Earth for crewed and uncrewed missions alike. Using a blend of government and commercial assets, NASA's Near Space and Deep Space Networks support science, technology demonstrations, and human spaceflight missions across the solar system.
"This mission is more than a technological milestone," said Joel Parker, policy lead for positioning, navigation, and timing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"We want to enable more and better missions to the moon for the benefit of everyone, and we want to do it together with our international partners."
The data-gathering LuGRE payload combines NASA-led systems engineering and mission management with receiver software and hardware developed by the Italian Space Agency and their industry partner Qascom—the first Italian-built hardware to operate on the lunar surface.
Any data LuGRE collects is intended to open the door for use of GNSS to all lunar missions, not just those by NASA or the Italian Space Agency. Approximately six months after LuGRE completes its operations, the agencies will release its mission data to broaden public and commercial access to lunar GNSS research.
"A project like LuGRE isn't about NASA alone," said NASA Goddard navigation and mission design engineer Lauren Konitzer. "It's something we're doing for the benefit of humanity. We're working to prove that lunar GNSS can work, and we're sharing our discoveries with the world."
The LuGRE payload is one of 10 science experiments launching to the lunar surface on this delivery through NASA's CLPS initiative.
Through CLPS, NASA works with American companies to provide delivery and quantity contracts for commercial deliveries to further lunar exploration and the development of a sustainable lunar economy. As of 2024, the agency has 14 private partners on contract for current and future CLPS missions.
Demonstrations like LuGRE could lay the groundwork for GNSS-based navigation systems on the lunar surface. Bridging these existing systems with emerging lunar-specific navigation solutions has the potential to define how all spacecraft navigate lunar terrain in the Artemis era.
The payload is a collaborative effort between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Italian Space Agency.
As Israel increases its ground operation in Gaza, the last remaining internet and mobile connections have gone dark.
For more than three weeks, Gaza has faced an almost total internet blackout. The cables, cell towers, and infrastructure needed to keep people online have been damaged or destroyed as Israel launched thousands of missiles in response to Hamas attacking Israel and taking hundreds of hostages on October 7. Then, this evening, amid reports of heavy bombing in Gaza, some of the last remaining connectivity disappeared.
In the days after October 7, people living in Gaza have been unable to communicate with family or friends, leaving them unsure whether loved ones are alive. Finding reliable news about events has become harder. Rescue workers have not been able to connect to mobile networks, hampering recovery efforts. And information flowing out of Gaza, showing the conditions on the ground, has been stymied.
As the Israel Defense Forces said it was expanding its ground operations in Gaza this evening, internet connectivity fell further. Paltel, the main Palestinian communications company, has been able to keep some of its services online during Israel’s military response to Hamas’ attack. However, at around 7:30 pm local time today, internet monitoring firm NetBlocks confirmed a “collapse” in connectivity in the Gaza Strip, mostly impacting remaining Paltel services.
“We regret to announce a complete interruption of all communications and internet services within the Gaza Strip,” Paltel posted in a post on its Facebook page. The company claimed that bombing had “caused the destruction of all remaining international routes.” An identical post was made on the Facebook page of Jawwal, the region’s biggest mobile provider, which is owned by Paltel. Separately, Palestinian Red Crescent, a humanitarian organization, said on X (formerly Twitter) that it had lost contact with its operation room in Gaza and is “deeply concerned” about its ability to keep caring for people, with landline, cell, and internet connections being inaccessible.
“This is a terrifying development,” Marwa Fatafta, a policy manager focusing on the Middle East and North Africa at the digital rights group Access Now, tells WIRED. “Taking Gaza completely off the grid while launching an unprecedented bombardment campaign only means something atrocious is about to happen.”
A WIRED review of internet analysis data, social media posts, and Palestinian internet and telecom company statements shows how connectivity in the Gaza Strip drastically plummeted after October 7 and how some buildings linked to internet firms have been damaged in attacks. Photos and videos show sites that house various internet and telecom firms have been damaged, while reports from official organizations, including the United Nations, describe the impact of people being offline.
Damaged Lines
Around the world, the internet and telecoms networks that typically give web users access to international video calls, online banking, and endless social media are a complicated, sprawling mix of hardware and software. Networks of networks, combining data centers, servers, switches, and reams of cables, communicate with each other and send data globally. Local internet access is provided by a mix of companies with no clear public documentation of their infrastructure, making it difficult to monitor the overall status of the system as a whole. In Gaza, experts say, internet connectivity is heavily reliant on Israeli infrastructure to connect to the outside world.
Amid Israel’s intense bombing of Gaza, physical systems powering the internet have been destroyed. On October 10, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which oversees emergency responses, said air strikes “targeted several telecommunication installations” and had destroyed two of the three main lines of communications going into Gaza.
Prior to tonight’s blackout, internet connectivity remained but was “extremely slow and limited,” Access Now’s Fatafta says. People she has spoken to from Gaza say it could take a day to upload and send a few photos. “They have to send like 20 messages in order for one to go through,” Fatafta says. “They are desperately—especially for Gazans that live outside—trying to get through to their families.”
“Every time I try to call someone from family or friends, I try to call between seven to 10 times,” says Ramadan Al-Agha, a digital marketer who lives in Khan Yunis, a city in the south of the Gaza Strip. “The call may be cut off two or three times,” he told WIRED in a WhatsApp message before the latest outages. “We cannot access news quickly and clearly.” People in the region have simultaneously faced electricity blackouts, dwindling supplies of fuel used to power generators, and a lack of clean water, food, and medical supplies. “It is a humanitarian disaster,” Al-Agha says.
Connectivity in Gaza started to drop not long after Israel responded to the October 7 Hamas attack. Rene Wilhelm, a senior R&D engineer at the nonprofit internet infrastructure organization Ripe Network Coordination Center, says based on an analysis of internet routing data it collects that 11 Palestinian networks, which may operate both in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, began to experience disruption after October 7. Eight of the networks were no longer visible to the global internet as of October 23, Wilhelm says. Ahead of this evening’s blackout, there was around 15 percent of normal connectivity, according to data from Georgia Tech’s Internet Outage Detection and Analysis project. That dropped to around 7 percent as reports of the blackout circulated.
One office belonging to Paltel in the Al Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City has been destroyed in the attacks, photos and videos show. Floors have been destroyed and windows blown away in the multistory building, and piles of rubble surround the entrances. (It is unclear what equipment the building housed or how many floors Paltel occupied.) Another internet provider, AlfaNet, is listed as being based in the Al-Watan Tower. The company posted to its Facebook page on October 8 that the tower had been destroyed and its services have stopped, with other online posts also saying the tower has been destroyed.
Multiple Palestinian internet and telecoms firms have said their services have been disrupted during the war, mostly posting to social media. Internet provider Fusion initially said its engineers were trying to repair its infrastructure, although it has since said this is not continuing. “The network was destroyed, and the cables and poles were badly damaged by the bombing,” it wrote on Facebook. JetNet said there had been a “sudden disruption” to access points. SpeedClick posted that the situation was out of its control. And HiNet posted that it has “no more to offer to ensure” people could stay online following “the attacks and destruction our internet servers have suffered.”
Across Paltel’s network on October 19, according to an update shared by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 83 percent of fixed line users had been disconnected, with 53 percent of sites providing fixed line connections also being offline. Half of the company’s fiber optic internet lines in Gaza weren’t operational, the update says. The connectivity disappeared this evening, according to Paltel’s Facebook post, which says there has been a “complete interruption” of all its services. Paltel, AlfaNet, Fusion, and SpeedClick could not be reached or did not respond to requests for comment.
Lost Connections
In recent years, governments and authoritarian regimes have frequently turned to shutting down the internet for millions of people in attempts to suppress protests and curtail free speech. Targeting the communications networks is common during conflicts. During Russia's war in Ukraine, its forces have decimated communications networks, tried to take over the internet, and set up new mobile companies to control information flows. When Hamas first attacked Israel on October 7, it used drones to bomb communications equipment at surveillance posts along the borders of the Gaza Strip.
Monika Gehner, the head of corporate communications at the International Telecommunication Union, says the body is always “alarmed” by damage inflicted on any telecommunications infrastructure during conflicts. The ITU, the United Nations’ primary internet governance body, believes “efficient telecommunication services” are crucial to peace and international cooperation, and its secretary-general has called for respecting infrastructure in the Middle East, Gehner says.
Officials in Israel have consistently claimed they are targeting Hamas militants within Gaza, not civilians, while responding to the Hamas attacks, which killed more than 1,400 people in Israel. The Hamas-run Health Ministry within Gaza has said more than 7,000 people have been killed there and released a list of names. A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces did not respond to WIRED’s questions about internet disruptions within Gaza.
Hanna Kreitem, a senior adviser for internet technology and development in the Middle East and North Africa at the Internet Society, an open internet advocacy nonprofit, says Palestinian firms have a “big reliance” on Israeli internet firms. “Palestinians are not controlling any of the ICT infrastructure,” says Mona Shtaya, a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. Mobile networks in the Gaza Strip rely on 2G technologies. Al-Agha, the digital marketer, shared a screenshot showing mobile internet speeds of 7.18 kilobytes per second; average mobile speeds in the US in 2022 were 24 megabits per second, according to mobile analytics firm Statista.
“The internet is vital in times of war in crises,” says Fatafta, the Access Now policy manager, who adds that there can be “terrible consequences” linked to connectivity blackouts. The UN’s OCHA said rescue workers have had a harder time “carrying out their mission” partly due to the “limited or no connection to mobile networks.” Al-Agha says he has lost some clients due to the disruptions. The lack of connectivity can obscure events that are happening on the ground, Fatafta says. News crews have told WIRED they have footage from the ground but are “losing the story because of the internet.”
Kreitem says that a lack of electricity and access to the equipment will have made an impact on top of any physical damage to communications networks. “We don't know how many of the people that actually operate these networks are still alive,” Kreitem says. “The network operators are part of the world there, there's no place for them to run. They are as affected as any other person.”
The new start-up criminal gang led by the infamous retired supervillain Carmine Keller. A bowling alley (Crimson Head Lanes) acting as a legitimate business front, they mostly deal in arms/drug trafficking, black market fencing, contract killing, general mercenary work, and counterfeit goods and services. They are usually considered “the middle men” or “the handymen” when it comes to their relationships with the surrounding community and larger criminal organizations of Necropolis. They are usually employed by the Terranovas.
Fontaine Industries
The world’s leading developer of energy weaponry and combat mechas, created and led by famed superscientist billionaire Maya Fontaine. Connected to multiple crime organizations, most notably Crimson Head Lanes.
The League
A guild, a former workers union, and now a semi-underground mass network of criminal organizations run by a litany of supervillains. Primarily allowed to exist by world governments because the organization somewhat ‘controls’ the severity of chaos its members tend to cause; it's generally acknowledged that if the League didn’t exist, crime would be much more widespread, destructive, and rampant. Big influencer in global politics and the economy. Main attraction of the League is its benefits that provide free healthcare and protection from law enforcement as well as other criminals for employees. The League is under the thumb of four different crime families: the Terranovas, the Slaughters, the O’Hara’s, and Antumbra.
The Promethean Society 🜂
An international coalition made up of the brightest minds of the new century, united in one goal: to help guide humanity to a better future. In recent decades however, an ideological schism has split this powerhouse of intellectualism into two, and it's only through sheer political will that the society remains together as it is now. The two ideologies that have broken out in this schism are “Faucherism (Humanz Rule)” and “Ortonism (Everyone Just Fucking Chill)”. Maintains the public face of being a non-political entity but it’s most likely worse than even the League.
ATLAS 🜃
A secret arm of the Promethean Society who answers only to the founder, Lupe Altena. Goal is seemingly the cooperation and survival of both Martians and humans, but otherwise members are left to their own dealings.
UHC (United Heroes Coalition)
A global organization of ‘superheroes’ directed by and belonging to the UN, as well as the Companies.
Administration of Mars 🜜
The ‘governing’ body of Mars, made up of those who took part in the killing and eating of the former King Aldebaran. The now so-called "rulers" of planet Earth.
CHARON
A shadowy syndicate of the remnants of the old US government that work as an independent intelligence agency.
Order of Antumbra
A not-so-underground guild of highly trained assassins, hitmen, and cleaners available for hire.
The Terranova Family
One of Necropolis’ most powerful crime families and the backbone of the US East Coast black market. Regularly employs the CHL.
The Slaughter Family
The Terranova Family’s embittered rivals in close association with Antumbra.
The O’Hara Family
A major drug trafficking organization on the US East Coast, in association with Joy Softwares.
Necropolis Police Department
Police department for the whole of Necropolis. Massively overfunded and overarmed, yet manage to be absolutely incompetant by every definition of the word. Fascist and corrupt, employed by the UN.
The Zoo
The Prison City, meant for imprisoning criminal chimeras and superpowered mutants. No one knows where it is. Once you’re taken here, you never leave, and you’re never heard from again.
Kuiper Corporations (aka ORCUS)
A multinational entertainment, media, and, more recently, space industry and satellite telecommunications conglomerate. Think retro-modern SpaceX-Disney, controlled (mostly) by Martians.
MoonGate + Joy Softwares (aka HYDRA)
A recent corporate team up between MoonGate, a rocket company, and Joy Softwares, an entertainment and electronic company, aiming to rival Kuiper Corps’ domination of the market.
Pfaff Corp
A German-Japanese Americana-inspired multinational fast food corporation. Monopolized food and profit off of nostalgic 1950s American fanaticism.
Sanguine Pharmaceuticals
A (and quite possibly THE only) major multinational pharmaceutical company. Owns your blood (and everything that comes with it).
AMAD (All Martians/Mutants Are Die)
An online far-right, mostly American and East Asian, political extremism movement that calls for the expulsion and even death of all alien life forms, including human mutants that resulted from the presence of G.A.
Croeseid
A mostly non-profit organization dedicated to peace and cooperation between all Bloodstocks, primarily with assisting young chimeras who are at higher risk of causing societal havoc.
Early Bird - “We Get the Worm!”
A public sanitation company dedicated to cleaning up extraterrestrial and extra-dimensional biohazards. Recently they have gone under a huge militarization campaign and are now the go-to organization for chimera ‘disposal’.
Best cloud technology will be adapted in the USAF F-35s
Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 03/01/2023 - 16:00 in Military
The U.S. Air Force wants to operate its aircraft in a more integrated way and has hired Lockheed Martin to research and develop a more advanced generation IT infrastructure based on cloud technology for its F-35 fighters.
The F-35 Lightning II is the most sustainable tactical aircraft there is, according to Lockheed Martin, but the U.S. Department of Defense wants to further optimize its fleet sustain and readiness performance.
On February 23, the Pentagon granted the designers and manufacturer of the F-35, Lockheed Martin, a $32.5 million contract modification from a previous order for a fleet of stealth aircraft.
This modification adds scope to design, develop and establish the F-35 NextGen Open Mission services. Lockheed will cover the use of modern cloud-based technologies and modern software methodologies for the Joint Strike Fighter program.
Cloud-based technologies are increasingly being invested and are beginning to play an integral part of the defense industry. The concept of shared IT infrastructure offers flexibility, resource efficiency and economy.
GlobalData states that the cloud allows sensors, services and agencies to interconnect, giving forces the necessary superiority to subdue enemies that are left behind in such force multipliers.
Lockheed Martin initially adapted its Autonomous Logistics Information System (ALIS) for its first launch of F-35s. However, this logistics system - which intended to monitor all aspects of the maintenance of the F-35 and the fleet in general - demonstrated inaccurate or absent data problems according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2020.
The successor system to ALIS, the Integrated Operational Data Network (ODIN), was introduced in 2021. Since then, ODIN has proven to be a great improvement.
"ODIN will be a cloud-native system that incorporates a new integrated data environment and a new set of user-centered applications; it will be a significant step to improve the support and readiness performance of the F-35 fleet."
As much as this system is working perfectly now, the fact remains that the Pentagon's modification suggests that it has new demands for the IT backbone of its largest vehicle asset.
What is known - from this modification and the success of ODIN - is that the cloud is identifiable as the future system of the F-35 fighter. But what cloud resources should Lockheed Martin dedicate to R&D with the investment of the U.S. government?
As the war in Ukraine has shown, opposing forces can deploy electronic warfare (EW) resources that depend on heavy interference outputs that can easily disrupt telecommunications. In such an environment, cloud computing would face serious challenges.
Part of Lockheed's development modification for F-35 logistics may seek to strengthen the security of its cloud infrastructure.
There has already been a growing interest in this area in the first quarter of 2023. On February 23, NV5 Global acquired Axim Geospatial, which offers "cloud services" and "critical infrastructure and security". This acquisition demonstrates the growing concern for cloud security in the defense and intelligence industry.
In addition, another important target of the research concern would be to improve the continuous flow of data collected from the sensors.
The aerial objects shot down over North America so far this year have given the high-altitude surveillance market greater attention. The Chinese spy balloon particularly attracted U.S. concern about protecting its intelligence, especially critical data.
It seems reasonable that attention should be paid to the data flow between the sensors and the broader cloud network.
The GlobalData report on Cloud Computing in Defense tells us that the U.S. Air Force (USAF), which relies heavily on the continuous flow of data from various sensors, is changing the operational approach from the sensor-shooter cycle to one of data for decision. It is much broader than it refers to the central capacity of this period, the collection and analysis of data, to make an informed decision.
If this modification tells us anything, it is that the demand for cloud-based technologies and their secure maintenance should only increase as we enter a phase of modern war that uses data as an asset to be exploited.
Tags: Military AviationF-35 Lightning IILockheed MartinUSAF - United States Air Force / U.S. Air Force
Fernando Valduga
Fernando Valduga
Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work throughout the world of aviation.
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