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Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Everfox Announces Strategic Partnership with Palantir to Enhance Joint Command and Control Capabilities
Collaboration provides enhanced cross-domain solutions for seamless connectivity and secure data sharing HERNDON, Va., March 25, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everfox, a leader in cross-domain technology solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR), a pioneer in data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), aimed at supporting customers operating software solutions in classified network environments, including software solutions for joint and integrated command and control. Utilizing approved data transformation formats, this partnership—already tested and deployed with existing customers—will now extend to additional clients with complex network and operational environment needs. By applying Everfox's robust cross-domain solutions to Palantir's AI capabilities, warfighters can rapidly process, decide and react to real-time intelligence streamed from multiple sensors, platforms, and networks, providing a comprehensive and unified data environment across domains. Everfox will also utilize Palantir's Mission Manager in conjunction with its own cross-domain solutions. This empowers customers to efficiently field, manage, and maintain their commercial, open source and government off-the-shelf software (GOTS) baselines across complex classified networks. Built on commercial industry best practices and government standards, Mission Manager offers a secure and automated software infrastructure, delivering rapid fielding and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) support models to any tactical and classified network environment. This suite of capabilities heralds a new era of software agility and reliability, bringing commercial software best practices to customers operating within the most complex and secure classified network environments. "Joint command and control are crucial for the U.S. to keep pace with the volume and complexity of data in modern warfare. Access to this data is often the difference between mission success and failure," said Sean Berg, CEO of Everfox. "Working with Palantir Technologies, we can better support our customers through innovative and highly secure cross-domain technology solutions." "We're proud to partner with Everfox to enhance the warfighter mission," said Akash Jain, President of Palantir USG. "Our combined efforts will provide our customers with transformative operational efficiency, ensuring they remain at the forefront of technological advancements in defense." Everfox and Palantir Technologies underscore a shared commitment to advancing national security through innovation. By combining their respective strengths, the two companies will deliver transformative solutions that will empower the warfighters with the necessary tools to maintain a strategic advantage on the battlefield. To learn more about Everfox, its collaboration with Palantir and work supporting command and control capabilities, visit About Everfox Everfox, formerly Forcepoint Federal, has been defending the world's most critical data and networks against the most complex cyber threats imaginable for more than 25 years. As trailblazers in defense-grade, high-assurance cybersecurity, Everfox has led the way in delivering and developing innovative cybersecurity technology. Headquartered in Herndon, VA, Everfox's suite of cross-domain, threat protection, and insider risk solutions empower governments and enterprise organizations to use data safely - wherever and however their people need it. Learn more: View source version on Contacts For media inquiries, contact:everfox@ Sign in to access your portfolio
Axios
12-03-2025
- Business
- Axios
Palantir's AI-fueled TITAN trucks are rolling into U.S. Army hands
The U.S. Army now has in hand a few Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Nodes, state-of-the-art trucks that promise to streamline the battlefield process of spotting, tracking and blasting. Why it matters: The program — years in the making, but also on time and budget — is critical to the Defense Department's connect-everything-everywhere dream of Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control. It also supports two of the Army's biggest ambitions: deep sensing and long-range precision fires, or the ability to find, shoot and kill more accurately from farther away. Driving the news: Axios visited "Tower House" in Southern California to inspect a pair of TITANs that Palantir Technologies and its partners (including Anduril Industries, Northrop Grumman and L3Harris Technologies) are delivering. The package included one basic variant and one advanced variant. The former is built on a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. The latter, on the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. TITAN consumes data from air, land and space and employs artificial intelligence to parse it, giving troops quicker, sharper insights. The latest: Palantir has now handed over three systems, with the first going to the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force at Joint Base Lewis-McChord last year. Another delivery is slated for early summer. The company declined to confirm the location or purpose, citing Army guidance. TITAN has so far avoided typical Pentagon pitfalls like laggard timelines and drip-feed budgeting, according to Akash Jain, Palantir's president of U.S. government business. He spoke with reporters at the California factory. "This is, really, a live system that is going to continue to get better, and that is different for the Army and for this type of technology," he said. "It is very much a software-centric acquisition, where hardware has been built around the software." "At the end of the day," he added, "Palantir does not bend metal." Zoom out: The defense and intelligence communities are betting big on AI. More than 685 AI projects were underway at the Pentagon as of early 2021, according to a watchdog. (The Army led the pack with 232.) Before that, in 2018, an official strategy warned the tech would "transform every industry" and influence all facets of national security. The havoc caused by DeepSeek's arrival underlines how seriously Washington takes its rivalry with China. Catch up quick: Palantir this time last year beat RTX for the $178 million TITAN production contract. The Army pick followed a yearslong design and prototyping face-off. Palantir's win was seen as a major shakeup. There were certainly doubters: Could a software specialist really pump out hardened battlefield vehicles? RTX is the third-largest contractor in the world when ranked by defense-related revenue, according to Defense News. "As we came together, there's been a bit of learning from each other," said Aaron Dann, Northrop's vice president for payload and ground systems. "We can pull from where we do welding of space tanks and take a look at welds on TITAN and say, 'Hey, are we doing this, right?'" What's next: TITAN production will continue in California for the foreseeable future. Its place at Arsenal-1, Anduril's planned Ohio megafactory, is unclear. Should the Army go full steam ahead, it is expected to buy 100-150 units.
Chicago Tribune
09-03-2025
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Premier League coming to Chicago for Summer Series at Soldier Field
Grab your banners and get ready for some English football, Chicago. The Premier League announced Sunday it is coming to Soldier Field in July for its Summer Series exhibition tournament, the first time its storied teams will meet head-to-head in Chicago, and the latest high-profile event to put the city on the international sports stage. Chicago is one of three U.S. cities hosting the returning preseason tournament, which will also visit New Jersey and Atlanta. Four clubs – AFC Bournemouth, Everton, Manchester United and West Ham United – will play a round robin series of matches over one week. The series kicks off Saturday, July 26, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Chicago is the second stop, with an evening doubleheader Wednesday, July 30, at Soldier Field, where West Ham United takes on Everton, followed by Manchester United vs. AFC Bournemouth. The final leg will take place Sunday, Aug. 3, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The announcement was made Sunday afternoon during halftime of NBC's live broadcast of the Manchester United vs. Arsenal match. NBC Sports holds the exclusive U.S. television rights to the Premier League, whose regular season runs from August through May. The Summer Series will be broadcast nationally on NBC and its cable networks as well. In September, the Premier League soccer fan fest drew a record 15,646 attendees to Lincoln Park for a weekend early morning watch party, with 10 live matches broadcast al fresco on nine large-screen TVs. Fan enthusiasm played a role in the decision to bring the real deal to the city and Soldier Field, the lakefront stadium that may soon be the former home of the Bears. 'The fans came to watch the matches, to see NBC broadcast live, get a picture with the trophy, meet legends,' Akash Jain, a former NBA, NFL and MLS executive who was named U.S. managing director of the Premier League in 2023. 'And it just showcased the appetite that they have for the Premier League clubs and our players.' This is the second Premier League Summer Series in the U.S., with more than 265,000 fans in four East Coast venues watching Chelsea emerge victorious during the inaugural tournament in July 2023. The English soccer exhibition is the latest boost to Chicago's standing as an international sports city. Rugby powers Ireland and the New Zealand All Blacks are set to face off in a much-anticipated rematch Nov. 1 at Soldier Field. When the two teams met there in 2016, Ireland scored its first victory over New Zealand after more than a century. The rugby rematch, announced last month, sold 50,000 seats on the first day and is essentially sold out, according to Kara Bachman, executive director of the Chicago Sports Commission. 'We're bringing the best soccer and the best rugby in the world to Chicago, all within a couple of months,' said Bachman. 'Chicago is the best sports city in the U.S., and we're vying for that title worldwide.' The city will certainly be center stage this summer, when NASCAR returns for its third Chicago Street Race during the July Fourth weekend in another nationally televised sporting event. The soccer and rugby invasion comes as the Bears seem ever closer to pulling up stakes and leaving Soldier Field for a new stadium in Arlington Heights. Meanwhile, Chicago is participating in a kind of football exchange program after the Bears beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 35 to 16 in front of nearly 62,000 fans last fall at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the eponymous home of a Premier League club. Bringing in four Premier League clubs for a doubleheader at Soldier Field could be an equally big draw for both Chicago, regional and international fans. Ticket registration is open, with presale starting Thursday and general admission sales beginning Friday morning. Prices start at $77, with one ticket covering both matches. The four clubs are promoting travel packages to the U.S. for their supporters, while fans are expected to drive in from neighboring states for the unique opportunity to see a Premier League match in person. 'We're going to get a wide range of fans that follow the Premier League and are passionate about their clubs,' Bachman said. 'I expect a sellout, and there's going to be a lot of excitement around the teams being in Chicago.' While it will be the first time Premier League teams have ever faced each other in Chicago, they have played one-off exhibitions against clubs from other leagues in the past. Most recently, Chelsea and German football power Borussia Dortmund played to a 1-1 tie in an August 2023 friendly played before 48,000 fans at Soldier Field. In July 2011, the Chicago Fire took a surprising lead over Manchester United before falling 3-1 to the Premier League club during an exhibition in front of a then-record 61,308 fans for the MLS team at Soldier Field. It took 12 years before the Fire would break that attendance record with a 4-1 victory over Inter Miami in an October 2023 MLS match. More than 62,000 fans came to Soldier Field that night, many to see Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi, who had recently signed with Miami. But Messi missed the match because of a leg injury.
