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SES subsidiary SES Space & Defence announced the availability of a satellite-powered network connectivity for AWS Modular Data Centre, which SES claimed makes it easy for the US Department of Defence (DoD) to deploy modular data centres managed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in infrastructure-limited locations.

It's highly unusual for any American website to write about the downsides posed by using Microsoft's innumerable products. One could extend that to tech sites in toto (iTWire is an exception: 1,2.).

JMA Wireless (JMA) and other leading American wireless technology companies successfully demonstrated the advanced 5G private network that will launch a smart warehouse at the Marine Corps Logistics Base at Albany, GA as part of the DOD 5G-to-Next G Initiative.

The US Department of Defense, the DOD, has awarded a US $231.8m contract to Ellume USA, the US arm of Brisbane-based Ellume, to "increase domestic capacity and deliver COVID-19 home tests".

Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson claims that its products meet relevant requirements set by the Australian Government. The company was responding to a query as to why its partner in China, Panda Electronics, has been placed on a list drawn up by the US Department of Defence and said to contain firms that are either owned or controlled by the Chinese military.

The US Government claims that a number of top Chinese companies, including telecommunications equipment maker Huawei and video surveillance firm Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, Reuters reports.

A recent report from the US Government Accountability Office paints a very bleak picture of the cyber security of modern US weapons systems.

Rank and file workers at Google, including a number of senior engineers, have submitted a letter to senior management to protest against a decision to provide technology to a US Defence Department programme that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video images and assist in targeting enemies in drone strikes.

The latest draft of the National Defence Authorisation Act has recommended that the Department of Defence be prohibited from using software platforms from cyber security company Kaspersky Lab.

The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has contracted with Veriluma to build a prototype "Indicators and Warnings" model for climate and disaster preparedness using its patented “Intelfuze” software.