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06 Jul 22. Raytheon Technologies-Led U.S. Army TITAN Program Selects C3 AI to Deliver Next-Generation AI/ML Ops. C3 AI (NYSE: AI), the Enterprise AI software company, today announced Raytheon Technologies has selected the C3 AI Application Platform to deliver next-generation AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities for a ready-now solution for the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) program. The Raytheon Technologies team, led by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, is in competition to design TITAN to serve as the Army’s underpinning solution to enable multi-domain operations.
TITAN is a tactical ground station that finds and tracks threats to support long-range precision targeting, further advancing the Department of Defense’s strategy for Joint Force C2 (JADC2) capabilities necessary to support U.S. national security interests. The C3 AI Application Platform will provide AI/ML model operations (ML Ops) for best-of-breed third-party models across the TITAN enterprise, including both cloud and intermittently connected edge environments.
“This work combines Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s expertise in aerospace and defense with C3 AI’s proven expertise in enterprise AI to support critical national security interests through next-generation technology,” said Thomas M. Siebel, Chairman and CEO of C3 AI. “We look forward to working with Raytheon Technologies to deliver this new AI-powered, mission-ready solution of the future.”
TITAN will ingest data from space and high-altitude, aerial, and terrestrial sensors to provide targetable data to defense systems. It will also provide multi-source intelligence support to targeting, and situational awareness and understanding for commanders. Leveraging capabilities that support pattern-of-life sensemaking and automated target recognition, the TITAN solution will also help operators make sense of the massive amounts of data and prosecute a target with the appropriate solution. (Source: BUSINESS WIRE)
06 Jul 22. Royal Navy aims to create one of the world’s greenest fleets.
The Royal Navy is making strides towards creating one of the world’s greenest fleets – from infrastructure in dockyards, the technology on warships and the operations carried out around the globe.
The fleet of the future will be packed with the latest weaponry, sensors and technology but also built with the environment in mind – and so too will its logistical centres.
The Royal Navy’s eight new Type 26 frigates will be painted with environmentally friendly, anti-fouling paint to limit marine growth, while its design underwent a hydrodynamic redesign to add speed without the need for larger engines.
The Queen Elizabeth Carrier Forward Logistics Centre in Portsmouth Naval Base draws its power entirely from the sun, power which drives not just lighting, heating and computer systems, but even the forklift trucks moving around inside.
The centre – a sort of Amazon warehouse for HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales berthed a few hundred metres away – is the first ‘net zero’ carbon building in the Navy.
The £7m logistics hub contains the spare parts, tools and documentation the carriers need during maintenance periods.
New patrol ships HMS Tamar and Spey, which are on long-term deployments to the Indo-Pacific, have catalytic reduction systems to reduce nitrous oxide emissions, while icebreaker HMS Protector supports international research into wildlife and climate change in Antarctica and Royal Navy patrol ships deployed across the globe regulate fishing stocks.
All of this is a boost to green ambitions during the UK’s Net Zero Week, which raises awareness about climate change as the UK looks to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
Portsmouth Naval Base has already won three environmental awards.
The base’s Commanding Officer, Commodore John Voyce, said: “Portsmouth Naval Base has established many low-carbon initiatives in order to achieve our target of being carbon-neutral.
“This includes electric vehicles and charging points, installation of wind turbines, and of course the construction and opening of our first carbon-neutral building in June this year – the first Royal Navy infrastructure construction to be Net Zero in operation.
“I am delighted to support and contribute to the government’s carbon reduction goals, and Team Portsmouth will continue to work on many more exciting actions to further improve our carbon footprint, not just for the Royal Navy and our base, but for the future of the city of Portsmouth as well.”
The Royal Navy is also setting a sustainability standard for its serving warships. Before deploying on operations, every crew and their ship must meet the exacting standards of the Fleet Operational Sea Training teams based in Plymouth.
Adding to their already rigorous testing, from next year ships will be recognised if they meet sustainability standards under what will be known as the Green Pennant scheme.
Meanwhile, at HMS Collingwood in Fareham, Hampshire, £2.4m has been invested in building management systems, which have been installed to monitor and control energy usage, while conservation projects are being undertaken across the Royal Navy’s bases and stations as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy project, which marks Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. (Source: https://www.gov.uk/)
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Oxley Group Ltd
Oxley offer a range of Military Marine NVG friendly LED lighting that includes navigation lights and controls, flight deck landing lights and interior compartment lighting. Our lighting products are used by Navies around the world including our own Royal Navy on UK Aircraft Carriers, Canadian Frigates, Swedish Submarines, Australian Surface vessels and Submarines, on board French Naval Carriers and in Naval Gun Turrets.
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The technology is extremely energy efficient and built robustly, with proven long life. The lighting is NVG friendly, dimmable and programmable to allow for operations with aircraft pilots using military night vision goggles. They offer superior design giving high reliability for the most demanding environments with high sealing and the ability to meet the most stringent EMC standards.
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Oxley are proud to say that we are working in partnership with SeaKing to enable a control panel to be offered with our LED Navigation Lighting. All of Oxley navigation lights have been specifically developed for vessels over 50 metres.
Contact Marcus Goad on 07850 917 263 for more information or to arrange samples.
Oxley specialises in the design and manufacture of advanced electronic and electro-optic components and systems for air, land and sea applications within the military sector. Established in 1942, Oxley has manufacturing facilities in the UK and USA and enjoys representation worldwide. The company’s products include night vision and LED lighting, data capture systems and electronic components. Oxley has pioneered the development of night vision compatible lighting. It offers a total package incorporating optical filters, equipment modification, cockpit and external lighting along with fleet wide upgrade services including engineering, installation, support, maintenance and training. The company’s long experience of manufacturing night vision lighting and LED indicators, coupled with advances in LED technology, has enabled it to develop LED solutions to replace incandescent and fluorescent lighting in existing applications as well as becoming the lighting option of choice in new applications such as portable military hospitals, UAV control stations and communication shelters.
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