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Intel, Lockheed Martin partnership contributes to US DOD’s 5G push

Lockheed Martin will leverage Intel FlexRAN software reference architecture to enable new cloud computing capabilities at the edge Intel is building 5G base stations in partnership with Lockheed Martin designed to support U.S. Defense Department secure communications across a variety of operational domains. Intel software and...

Hughes secures contract to deploy private 5G Standalone network for DoD

The private 5G Standalone network will utilize spectrum from DISH Wireless Hughes Network Systems announced the award of an $18 million contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy a Standalone 5G network at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington state. The deal was...

Verizon awarded US Dept. of Defense contracts worth nearly $1 billion

The Verizon, DoD Pentagon project involves converting more than 52,000 voice lines to an integrated IP environment with optimized voice and video services Verizon Public Sector will provide the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with network modernization services and technical support at the Pentagon, the...

DoD kicks off 5G DSS experimentation at Hill Air Force Base

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officially announced the deployment of a private 5G cellular network at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Led by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) and managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL),...

Verizon, Lockheed Martin partner on 5G military communications

Earlier this week, the pair demonstrated interoperability between Lockheed Martin’s open tactical gateway solutions and the Verizon 5G network Verizon has partnered with aerospace, arms, defense, information security and technology corporation Lockheed Martin to prototype, demonstrate and test 5G.MIL technologies for use by the U.S....

Verizon wins DoD contract to provide 5G, C-band at 7 US Air Force bases

Verizon will install c-band radios outdoors at each DoD facility, as well as a mix of 4G and 5G mmWave in certain indoor locations Verizon Public Sector has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver its 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) mobility...

Verizon Public Sector secures $78.8 million task order with the Air National Guard

Verizon Public Sector has secured a $78.8 million Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) task order with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide advanced network modernization services to the Air National Guard (ANG) Readiness Center. The task order, stated the operator, increases the scope of services...

Samsung and GBL deploy 5G testbeds for US DoD for AR, VR military training

The US DoD testbeds will use Samsung’s mmWave and mid-band 5G radios Samsung and GBL Systems Corporation (GBL), which provides advanced technology solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), have begun deployment of new 5G testbeds for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)...

Verizon secures $495M contract with US DoD to manage research network

Verizon Public Sector secured a $495 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency, Layer 2 wide area network services in support of critical research. Verizon’s solutions, which include switch, router, firewall and edge compute capabilities, will connect 200...

Lockheed Martin and Omnispace to build a space-based 5G network

Weeks after the U.S. Air Force’s Space Command issued a Request for Information (RFI) detailing its interest in using 5G for data transportation for ground- and space-based communications, Lockheed Martin, a U.S. defense contractor, announced a strategic interest agreement with satellite startup Omnispace “to explore jointly developing...

AT&T to provide 5G, networking for three Air Force bases

AT&T is bringing 5G and its commercial networking-as-a-service to three U.S. Air Force bases by the end of this year: Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado; Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska; and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. The carrier said that it has already completed network design across the...

DoD looks into DSS and operating its own 5G networks

DoD RFI asks about possibility of owning and operating its own domestic 5G networks In a newly published Request for Information, the Department of Defense is asking for insights on how it could operate its own domestic 5G networks and use Dynamic Spectrum Sharing across...

Ligado raises $100 million for its 5G, IoT network plans

Ligado Networks has raised more than $100 million in a first wave of investment for the build-out of its planned 5G/IoT network, even as a federal agency recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to pause and reconsider Ligado's ability to operate in its L-Band...

DoD to invest $2.7 million in spectrum-sharing research

At a 5G testbed in Salt Lake City, DoD funds will support advanced spectrum-sharing research In the wake of DARPA's three-year Spectrum Collaboration Grand Challenge, the Department of Defense is continuing its investment in advanced spectrum-sharing technologies with a new $2.7 million project that will...

FCC set to grant Ligado its long-awaited permission for a 5G network, over Pentagon pushback

  The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on granting Ligado Networks permission to use its midband spectrum holdings to deploy a combined satellite-and-terrestrial network for private 5G and industrial internet of things services. The FCC said it was circulating a draft order to approve...

Three ways that DoD is exploring the use of 5G

The U.S. Department of Defense is looking at how 5G can be used to benefit the armed forces in logistics and training, as well as how DoD-held mid-band spectrum might be able to be shared with 5G. Earlier this month, DoD released four draft Requests...

Secret Region service strengthens AWS, government sector relationship

AWS unveils “Secret Region” cloud service for U.S. Intelligence Community Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently debuted a cloud service for the U.S. Intelligence Community dubbed “Secret Region,” accessible only to those with a secret level classification from the government. With the launch of Secret Region,...