This news is classified in: Defense Cyber Defense / IT
Feb 2, 2021
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, securely and reliably transmitted high performance cloud- and artificial intelligence (AI)-based data in a variety of challenging tactical communication scenarios during the U.S. Army's Cyber Quest 2020 exercise—a collaborative, live event where military, commercial and defense industry, worked alongside academia and government to examine how electronic warfare, cyber, networking and communications capabilities could aid global military forces.
"Cyber Quest provides a realistic, operational, 'fail-safe' environment that puts critical capabilities—enabled by the latest technologies—into the hands of soldiers for immediate feedback and assessment," said Col. Brett Riddle, director of the Cyber Battle Lab. "It's an incredible opportunity to bring leaders from across disciplines together to accelerate and optimize technological developments for battlespace advancement."
During the event, Viasat showed its NetAgility Virtual and Mobile Software Defined Networking (SDN) bonding router delivering advanced multi-path networking transmission and management capabilities over a variety of tactical communication links in a number of U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) and Operational Virtual Health (OVH) situations. Tactical communication technologies leveraged included SATCOM, LTE and multiple Line of Sight tactical radios. Viasat's technology supported Situational Awareness (SA) and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications with optimized network video capture to:
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In multiple challenges during the Cyber Quest 2020 exercise, the Army explored how Viasat's SDN platform could address the following U.S. Army Futures Command Network Cross-Functional Team interests:
In each scenario, Viasat was able to demonstrate it could strengthen the transport backbone and ensure resilient communications could be maintained without disruption or disablement, thereby empowering field-based medics with the life-saving technologies they needed during warfare.