System answers questions: Where am I? Where are my buddies? Where is the enemy? Sophisticated tracking and communications capabilities rapidly installed on military platforms in the Middle East helped ...

The Blue Force Tracking (BFT) system — only a few years ago a wonder of battlespace technology — is in the midst of an upgrade. BFT is a building block of operational awareness. It transmits the ...

The Army’s Blue Force Tracking system uses Global Positioning System information to track friendly and enemy warfighters and deliver the data to troops in the field in near real time. But that’s only ...

The military will need the ability to see and track allied forces in the network to fight future wars in cyberspace, according to an official at the Air Combat Command. The U.S. military increasingly ...

Viasat (VSAT) will provide engineering and network modernization services to support U.S. Army Blue Force Tracker requirements CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Jan. 29, 2018) -- The U.S. Army is beginning a long-term initiative to significantly upgrade its key situational awareness network Blue Force Tracking, commonly known as ...

Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) has received a potential five-year, $153.4 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide support services for Project Manager Mission Command’s Blue ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Feb. 13, 2013) -- On the battlefield, situational awareness technologies provide Soldiers with the locations of friendly forces and hostile activity, which can mean the ...

Blue Force GPS, direction and speed-based filtering features helps to intelligently monitor and reduce false alarms on security operations. Blue Force tracking leverages GPS technology to recognize ...

TRACKING REVENUE: Northrop Grumman will provide the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) program with a new in-line encryption device, called the KGV-72, with the latest Blue Force ...

WASHINGTON — Inmarsat Government announced Nov. 7 it won a $410 million, five-year contract extension to provide internet-of-things satellite connectivity for U.S. Army battlefield tracking devices.