April 6, 2020 Monitoring your health and wellness is always important to maintain a full picture of how you are doing both physically and mentally. When you wake up in the morning, do you wonder how well rested you are? Or are you curious as to why you feel drained at the end of a stressful day? Select Garmin wearables offer a variety of features that help you get a pulse on how you’re doing […]

SMC Public Affairs / Published March 28, 2020 LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The Space and Missile Systems Center achieved a major Global Positioning System milestone on March 27 with the Contingency Operations (COps) program and GPS III Space Vehicle (SV) 02 receiving U.S. Space Force’s Operational Acceptance approval. COps is an upgrade to the current GPS Operational Control System to operationally command and control GPS III satellites. These satellites are […]

News from the U.S. Air Force, 50th Space Wing Despite the worldwide COVID response, the 50th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base continues to execute its critical operations, while ensuring the proper steps are taken to maintain airmen’s health and well-being. As of March 20, there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the base. The 50th Space Wing commander, Col. James E. Smith, has enacted multiple safety measures — social distancing, minimum manning […]

April 3, 2020 You’ve probably heard or read stories about Garmin watches and similar wearables seemingly predicting illness. Can your fitness tracker really tell when you are getting sick? Or are wearable enthusiasts reading too much into the data? Let’s start with the critical caveat. Garmin watches are not approved medical devices and are not designed to diagnose or treat any disease or condition. Always seek professional advice if you are concerned about your health. […]

LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — On March 26, the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) program instructed Raytheon to replace the computer hardware in OCX prior to system delivery due to sale of IBM’s computer product line to a Chinese company. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the IBM x86 product line sale to a foreign owned company, Lenovo on […]

DroneHunter F700. (Photo: Fortem Technologies) DroneHunter F700 is a radar-based autonomous interceptor drone for tracking and stopping dangerous drones Fortem Technologies Inc. is now shipping its artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled F700 DroneHunter. The F700 is a safe, effective deterrent against a rising number of careless and criminal drones. The F700 has a flexible undercarriage that offers interchangeable counter measures for single, multiple or swarm-based threats. Its new lightweight carbon-fiber frame enables greater athleticism and speed. The […]

March 30, 2020 Our community of inReach® subscribers is constantly embarking on adventures in the outdoors. Sometimes those adventures go as planned, and sometimes they don’t. Either way, carrying an inReach satellite communication device has helped individuals escape a grizzly bear, survive a medical emergency, be rescued from the middle of the ocean, complete a record-setting sail, save imperiled animals and more. Read those stories:   When Todd and Kerri Mozinski left for the Northwest […]

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The 2nd Space Operations Squadron accepted control of GPS III Satellite Vehicle Number 75 March 27 at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.  The vehicle is the second GPS III satellite to be accepted into the program, but the first to be accepted during a global pandemic. “We’re continuing to make major strides even while working through this pandemic, and we continue to expand our capability to further the program […]

Image: Iris Automation MVT Geo-solutions, in partnership with Iris Automation, has been granted the first beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) by Transport Canada using only onboard detect-and-avoid (DAA) systems. The approval was granted based on the utilization of Iris Automation’s DAA system, called Casia, which provides commercial drones with automated collision avoidance maneuvers. The waiver permits flights within the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Center of Excellence’s controlled airspace Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) […]

March 31, 2020 Ruairi Oneill, a 24-year-old commercial filmmaker from Ireland, was seven days into a long winter trek in northern Sweden when he fell through the ice while crossing a frozen river. Thinking quickly, he planted his trekking poles to keep from submerging fully into the quick-moving water, but still emerged soaked all the way to the top of his knees. Within minutes, the arctic temperatures began to freeze his pants and boots, making […]