🗺️ Lockheed Builds ‘Full Earth’ Simulator to Accelerate Mission Digital Twins

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🗺️ Lockheed Builds ‘Full Earth’ Simulator to Accelerate Mission Digital Twins — Read More

🎮 AV Halo Update Integrates Intel VR for Real-Time Mission-Training Improvements — Read More

🛸 War Department Seeks 300,000+ Cheap, Fast-Built Drones from Industry — Read More

🛡️ MDA Picks 1,000+ Initial Winners for ‘Golden Dome’ Contracting Vehicle — Read More

🤝 SNC & Applied Intuition Team Up on AI-Driven Air Defense Capabilities — Read More

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🗺️ Lockheed Builds ‘Full Earth’ Simulator to Accelerate Mission Digital Twins — Read More

• Lockheed Martin unveiled a new “Full Earth” simulator designed to provide a high-fidelity digital representation of the entire planet, enabling mission planners to experiment with scenarios without physical testing. The system aims to accelerate digital twin development and reduce time-to-field for various defense programs.

• The simulator incorporates environmental data, orbital mechanics, and global sensor modeling to create realistic operational conditions. Lockheed says this will allow users to test everything from comms resilience to early-warning architectures within a single integrated digital environment.

• Company officials believe the simulator will streamline cross-domain modeling—space, air, cyber, and ground—supporting faster design iteration and mission rehearsal. The platform is expected to be adopted by multiple defense customers looking to shorten development cycles.

🎮 AV Halo Update Integrates Intel VR for Real-Time Mission-Training Improvements — Read More

• AV Halo’s latest upgrade integrates Intel VR technologies to enhance real-time mission rehearsal and simulated training environments. The update delivers improved rendering speed, visual clarity, and interactive physics, designed for operators who require high-fidelity tactical immersion.

• The partnership with Intel allows Halo to fuse sensor data, environmental inputs, and operator interactions more seamlessly. AV says the improvements will make mission prep more flexible, scalable, and realistic, especially for units training with limited physical-range access.

• Developers highlighted that the new VR capabilities support rapid scenario-building and multi-user environments, enabling distributed teams to rehearse complex missions together. Agencies plan to evaluate the update for broader training adoption next year.

🛸 War Department Seeks 300,000+ Cheap, Fast-Built Drones from Industry — Read More

• The War Department issued an urgent request for companies to deliver more than 300,000 inexpensive, fast-to-produce drones suitable for large-scale fielding. The solicitation reflects rising demand for attritable systems and lessons from high-consumption conflicts.

• Requirements emphasize commercial components, simplified manufacturing, low training burden, and rapid assembly. Officials stressed that cost must remain low enough to enable mass production without sacrificing essential reliability or mission value.

• The push signals a shift toward industrial-scale drone procurement and highlights the government’s need to expand the domestic supply base. Officials expect responses spanning small startups to major defense contractors as they build a long-term procurement pipeline.

🛡️ MDA Picks 1,000+ Initial Winners for ‘Golden Dome’ Contracting Vehicle — Read More

• The Missile Defense Agency selected over 1,000 initial companies for its new “Golden Dome” contracting vehicle, designed to broaden participation in missile-defense innovation, prototyping, and production. The winners span small businesses, non-traditional, and established primes.

• Officials say the large pool will help accelerate development cycles by giving the agency more flexible, rapid contracting access across domains, including sensors, interceptors, fire control, and emerging technologies. The vehicle builds on lessons from recent rapid-acquisition efforts.

• MDA leaders emphasized that Golden Dome will allow more direct competition across a wider vendor base, stimulating faster iteration and enabling capability insertion at scale. Additional award rounds are expected in the coming year.

🤝 SNC & Applied Intuition Team Up on AI-Driven Air Defense Capabilities — Read More

• Sierra Nevada Corporation and Applied Intuition formed a new partnership focused on advancing air-defense technology using AI-enabled modeling, simulation, and autonomy. The effort centers on developing more adaptive and responsive defensive systems.

• Applied Intuition will provide digital-engineering tools and autonomy-development frameworks, while SNC brings expertise in existing sensor and weapon systems. Together, the companies aim to speed up virtual testing and algorithmic evaluation for future air-defense programs.

• Executives said the collaboration aims to increase demand for software-centric air-defense solutions capable of processing complex threat data in real time. The team expects to pursue upcoming DoD solicitations related to integrated air and missile defense.

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