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Command and Control: The Data Challenge Behind Building Unmanned Systems at Scale
The need to support Autonomous Collaborative Teaming (ACT) puts increasing pressure on unmanned systems. Historically, these unmanned systems...
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America at 250: Accelerating Innovation to the Tactical Edge
The Evolution of Warfare: From Wooden Ships to the Software-Defined Battlefield In 1776, the birth of the United States was forged on battlefields...
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Why Physical AI Needs a Data-Oriented Architecture
Physical AI is often framed as a model lifecycle: train in the cloud, deploy to the edge, then improve the model over time. That framing misses the...
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Data at the Edge vs. Data in the Cloud: The Choice Between DDS and Kafka
If you’re like me, you’ve spent many late nights debating the best way to move data around a distributed system. Whether you're building a fleet of...
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Beyond gRPC: The Data Distribution Challenge in Physical AI Systems
In the course of supporting modern autonomous vehicles, robotic fleets, and mission-critical defense platforms, today’s Physical AI systems generate...
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The Physical AI Data Flywheel: Why Data Architecture Is the New Differentiator
Most companies today have an AI strategy built on strong ambition, but a data strategy built on wishful thinking.
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Western OEMs and Tier-1s are Failing the SDV Test
Why does that matter? What can we do about it? The Future is Software Defined The Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) is not an optional future; it is a...
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The Dawn of Physical Data Streaming
The smart-planet promise is everywhere these days: Robotaxi fleets. Digital ORs. Golden Dome. Smart farms. Dark factories. These integrated systems...
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From Requirements to Relevance: Why Defense Acquisition Is Shifting Toward Field-Ready Solutions
For decades, defense acquisition followed a long, structured pattern. Requirements were gathered across stakeholders, programs expanded as more...
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What Ukraine’s Ground Robots Teach Us About the Real Challenge of Autonomy
Robotic systems in Ukraine are exposing a coordination problem. Individual platforms can operate effectively in narrow roles, but coordinating large...