SCOUT Space has made an acquisition to strengthen its defense and technical capabilities, acquiring space domain awareness software company Free Space. SCOUT announced the acquisition on Aug. 24. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Both companies are focused on software for space domain awareness. Free Space was founded last year and built satellite autonomy…

IBM announced this week that IBM's geospatial foundation model watsonx.ai, which is built from NASA's satellite data, will now be openly available on AI platform Hugging Face. IBM says this will be the largest geospatial foundation model on Hugging Face and the first-ever open-source AI foundation model built in collaboration with NASA. The model was…

Google connectivity-focused spinoff Aalyria announced a software partnership on Tuesday with defense tech firm Anduril Industries geared toward national security use cases. The companies will integrate Aalyria’s networking orchestration platform, Spacetime, with Lattice, Anduril’s open operating system for national security capabilities. Spacetime, which Aalyria demonstrated at SATELLITE 2023, is designed to manage networks of ground stations,…

Hughes Network Systems is introducing a software-defined networking product geared toward defense needs called Hughes Smart Network Edge.  The software serves as a virtualized SD-WAN router and can remotely manage multi-transport modems across any combination of commercial and military communication networks – including cable, fiber, 5G, Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. It…