Britain’s MoD worries Skynet 6 might be just a faster horse when others are driving Ferraris. LONDON — The British military’s Skynet-6 satellite program faces a complicated procurement, but one of the ...

LONDON — Britain’s defense secretary has fired the starting gun on an industry competition to manage the ground station element of the £6 billion Skynet 6 communications satellite program. “I can ...

A fundamental flaw with a US National Security Agency (NSA)’s machine learning program to identify terrorist suspects in Pakistan may have led to thousands of people in that country being wrongly ...

The National Security Agency uses metadata to recognize and classify terrorists to kill them. But recently, a new investigation of the former published Snowden documents suggests that several of those ...

The British military is looking for a contractor to run the ground station of its new Skynet 6 program. (Paul Bennett) LONDON — A competition to run the ground elements of a new British military ...

Serco is among the companies supporting the Skynet 5 program, providing support to the U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) at Oakhanger, southern England. (Serco) LONDON — Britain’s ...

The Skynet 6A satellite is currently being built by Airbus Defense and Space, which has provided Skynet to date. Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week ...

A ground station of the British Skynet 5 satellite-communications network is shown in Adelaide, Australia. A new generation, number 6, is in the works, with four vendor shortlisted in June 2020.

According to leaked documents, the Obama administration's use of metadata to identify and target terrorists in Pakistan would misidentify over 99,000 innocent people. The SKYNET program, named after ...

KOUROU, French Guiana — The successful launch of the Skynet 5A military telecommunications satellite removes a large measure of financial pressure from the company that owns and operates all of the ...

The SKYNET program cannot be killing thousands of innocent people, because the US isn't launching thousands of drone strikes, full stop. In 2014, there was a grand total of 25 drone strikes in ...