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May 25, 2021
Recent demonstrations have shown that commercial cloud computing can be used to process and securely deliver actionable information from low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to military ground stations, command centers or direct to warfighters on the battlefield.
As part of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center s Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations program, Microsoft and Ball Aerospace demonstrated that data and images from distributed constellations of LEO satellites could be quickly processed, analyzed and distributed using Microsoft s Azure cloud and Ball Aerospace‘s imagery exploitation algorithms.
For the demonstrations, simulated infrared data was pushed from Telesat satellites to a Microsoft Azure cloud data center, where it was processed using Ball’s event-driven architecture and then distributed to multiple end points, officials said in a press statement. In the final demonstration showing that satellite data could
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Additionally, Palantir will assist NORAD-NORTHCOM in its Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) mission by assimilating critical data from across functional and geographic domains to support comprehensive operational planning and execution.
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Palantir Technologies wins contract to support USAF and USSF 24 May 2021 (Last Updated May 24th, 2021 16:36)
Palantir has been contracted to provide software to the critical missions of the USAF, SMC/ECX and NORAD-NORTHCOM.
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US Space Force officials in the Oval Office of the White House. Credit: The White House photo by Shealah Craighead.
Palantir Technologies has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to provide software support for the US Space Force (USSF) and US Air Force (USAF).
The software will support the critical missions of the Air Force Department, Space and Missile Systems Center’s Cross-Mission Ground & Communications Enterprise (SMC/ECX).