Sponsored By Curtiss Wright
https://www.curtisswright.com/
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21 Apr 26. Curtiss-Wright today announced the launch of its Ground Tactical Data Link System (GTS) Continuous Monitoring System, a centralized cybersecurity and compliance management suite designed to secure large-scale, geographically dispersed tactical networks and sustain assured coalition interoperability. As coalition military operations become increasingly integrated and cyber threats grow more persistent and sophisticated, this tactical network infrastructure remains secure, compliant, resilient and mission-ready.
The system supports allied and partner nations’ militaries that must satisfy sovereign cybersecurity mandates while also meeting U.S. requirements when connecting national networks to U.S. military systems.
“Partner nations operating distributed tactical networks must meet both sovereign cybersecurity requirements and U.S. compliance standards to maintain secure interoperability,” said Roark McDonald, Vice President and General Manager, Tactical Communications, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions. “As coalition operations grow more integrated and cyber threats evolve, trusted connectivity to U.S. military systems must be continuously assured—not periodically validated. Our GTS Continuous Monitoring System enables persistent cyber readiness and sustained interoperability across national and coalition environments.”
As tactical data link infrastructures expand across aircraft, naval platforms, ground systems, and fixed installations, continuous adherence to Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) standards and Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes is essential to maintaining trusted connectivity. The GTS Continuous Monitoring System delivers centralized visibility into network health, cyber posture, and compliance status, supporting DISA STIG enforcement and RMF alignment across distributed defense networks.
Engineered for Curtiss-Wright tactical data link system environments, the GTS Continuous Monitoring System aligns with defense-grade cybersecurity and interoperability requirements. The suite integrates centralized cyber event monitoring, automated Windows update management, redundancy oversight, secure automated backups, firewall monitoring, and embedded compliance enforcement capabilities—simplifying adherence to national cyber policies while preserving secure coalition connectivity.
Already supporting national deployments spanning dozens of primary systems and multiple connected nodes across broad operational regions, the system enables rapid remote detection and mitigation in environments where physical access may be limited and threat response timelines are critical.
For additional information about Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions products, please visit defense-solutions.curtisswright.com and LinkedIn.
21 Apr 26. KBR Forms Strategic Alliance with Tagup to Accelerate AI-Powered Global Defense Operations. KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today its Mission Technology Solutions division entered a strategic alliance with AI-driven defense tech company Tagup to accelerate the delivery of advanced AI solutions across U.S. military operations, modernizing readiness and using digital tools for analyzing data that provides outputs for decisions in seconds. The collaboration strengthens KBR’s long-standing technology-powered support for the Department of War by integrating Tagup’s Manifest® platform into KBR’s global logistics mission sets. Initial deployments of Manifest® for U.S. ground equipment operations are expected to dramatically reduce planning time and increase maintenance throughput.
Manifest is an AI-powered decision engine that combines human expertise with Tagup’s Generative Reinforcement Learning™ technology to simulate and optimize logistics operations. The platform enhances KBR’s ability to help customers optimize constrained resources, anticipate disruption and improve readiness outcomes with greater speed and precision. Manifest also features a conversational AI interface that allows sustainment teams to rapidly evaluate logistics tradeoffs, model uncertainty and select executable courses of action within real world constraints. Manifest simulates millions of logistics scenarios and recommends optimal plans in seconds. This decision intelligence improves operational visibility and enables teams to shift from manual planning to anticipatory, outcomes driven sustainment.
“Our customers operate in environments where conditions change quickly and the cost of delay is high,” said KBR Readiness and Sustainment President Doug Hill. “Partnering with Tagup allows KBR to incorporate cutting-edge decision intelligence directly into our sustainment workflows. This accelerates mission impact for the Marines, the Army and other defense organizations that depend on us to keep operations executable and forces ready. It also strengthens our competitive position, helping us drive growth, win more of the programs we pursue and deliver greater value across existing programs while enhancing operational efficiency.”
Tagup CEO Jon Garrity added, “Sustainment at KBR’s scale generates enormous decision volume: thousands of competing resource trade-offs, every day, across global theaters. Manifest gives KBR the ability to turn that complexity into a quantitative advantage by continuously modeling the logistics environment, evaluating courses of action against real constraints and surfacing the decisions that protect readiness before problems compound.”
The collaboration reflects KBR’s continued commitment to combining world-class operational excellence with next-generation technology to deliver measurable mission outcomes at scale with Speed to Mission Impact℠. KBR has decades of experience sustaining forces across every branch of the U.S. military, and the company combines a proven global logistics network, a rapidly deployable workforce, and expertise in complex, austere and contested environments, with a track record of leading digital transformation for customers. By integrating modern decision intelligence into this foundation, KBR enhances the value of existing programs, strengthens proposal competitiveness, and drives durable growth through improved operational efficiency and margin performance. This alliance further strengthens KBR’s capacity to help defense customers maintain readiness, anticipate disruption and execute missions with speed and confidence.
About KBR
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 36,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
Visit www.kbr.com
About Tagup
Tagup is a defense technology company founded at MIT that is delivering logistics decision advantage with next-generation AI. The company’s platform, Manifest, is an AI-powered multidimensional logistics decision engine that simulates and optimizes logistics courses of action under constraints and uncertainty, delivering a decisive operational advantage in contested and degraded environments. A trusted partner of the U.S. military, Tagup supports logistics operations across supply, maintenance and mobilization, including active deployments with aviation and medical logistics units. For more information on Tagup’s AI-powered logistics solutions or to request a demo of Manifest, visit www.tagup.ai or email .
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Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) has a long history with its roots dating back to Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first flight in 1903, and Mr. Glenn Curtiss, the father of naval aviation. In 1929, the companies founded by these three great aviation pioneers, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and Wright Aeronautical Corporation, merged to form the largest aircraft company at the time, Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
We have continued on the path of innovation and advanced engineering, and have applied that expertise to a number of critical applications in high-performance markets. Our success has resulted in a world-renowned reputation for performance, long-standing customer relationships and significant growth and profitability in the markets in which we compete.
Today, we are a global, integrated provider of highly engineered, technologically advanced products and services. Our revenues are generated by providing our critical solutions through three segments: Aerospace & Industrial, Defense Electronics and Naval & Power, which support several of the largest, most vital industries in the world.
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