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Walton Enterprises, Inc. .............................................. cover + 3 2 MilsatMagazine — December 2017 Dispatches EO Data Support Services by ICEYE for DoD’s DIUx ICEYE, a leader in synthetic- Headquartered in Silicon Valley Tapping into the country’s deep aperture radar (SAR) technology, with offices in Boston, Austin, and and growing talent pool of now has an agreement with the Pentagon, DIUx facilitates engineers, ICEYE’s expansion the Defense Innovation Unit DoD’s efforts to identify and work into Warsaw is the company’s Experimental (DIUx) to purchase with commercial companies, first office outside of its current airborne Earth Observation including ICEYE U.S., to help solve headquarters in Espoo, Finland. (EO) data support services from national defense problems. ICEYE U.S. ICEYE’s Poland office, set to open Earlier this year, ICEYE announced later this year, will house one “Having just opened our U.S. the firm’s expansion into the of ICEYE’s Mission Operations subsidiary, ICEYE U.S. is on a fast- U.S. with an entity focused on Centers to control communications track in providing services that will delivering EO data in long-form to with the satellite constellation. help the public sector,” said Mike its current and prospective clients. Lyons, CEO of ICEYE U.S. “DIUx is Coming on the heels of securing tackling some of the nation’s most ICEYE U.S. is also developing nearly $15M in funding just this challenging problems, and we’re data analytics capabilities to year, ICEYE remains on track to eager to provide them with data support more varied industry be the first organization in the support services that will help in specific services. world to launch SAR smallsats. solving those problems.” The company also expand their www.iceye.com The U.S. Department of Defense operations into Warsaw, Poland, (DoD) launched DIUx in 2015 to to further develop ICEYE’s www.diux.mil build a bridge between commercial operations and accelerate technological innovation and company growth. national security endeavors. 4 MilsatMagazine — December 2017 Dispatches Rescue and Ocean Safety Training by U.S. Coast Guard on Hawaii’s North Shore Guard Air Station Barbers Point. “It was a great opportunity to share techniques and camaraderie in an area we are all passionate about and that is rescuing people in the ocean.” Residents and visitors alike are encouraged to check conditions prior to engaging in ocean The U.S. Coast Guard, Honolulu a Honolulu Fire Department activities. Lifeguards on scene can Fire Department and Ocean helicopter and small boat crews be spoken with and Ocean Safety Safety and Lifeguard Services and three Ocean Safety rescue maintains a database of current craft operators participated in the crews conducted joint training beach surf conditions at www. event off Haleiwa. on Oahu’s North Shore Tuesday hawaiibeachsafety.com for all ahead of the island’s famed island coastlines including closures annual high surf season. The focus was operating together and alerts. to rescue a person in trouble in The three agencies are the primary challenging high surf conditions. responders to incidents in the All agencies support the current nearly seven mile long surf zone The crews worked to improve advice: When in doubt, don’t go off Oahu’s North Shore which communication and practice hoisting out. However, if you are going out draws surfers from all over the techniques in and out of the surf tell someone where you are going world every winter. while exposing each organization to and when you’ll be back. the other’s capabilities. The swell can reach heights of more Small emergency beacons have than 30 feet and is very dangerous “We were really excited to have an also come down in cost and even for experienced surfers. opportunity to train in the surf on fit in the pocket of your board the North Shore with our partners shorts. Once activated, they use a Two Coast Guard MH-65 at Honolulu Fire Department and satellite signal to alert responders Dolphin helicopters from Coast Ocean Safety,” said Captain Carl to your location quickly and are Guard Air Station Barbers Point, Riedlin, commanding officer Coast extremely accurate. www.uscg.mil Story by Chief Petty Officer Sara Muir, U.S. Coast Guard District 14, Hawaii. 6 MilsatMagazine — December 2017 Dispatches For the U.S. Army’s 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, Comms are the Key Soldiers with the military The exposure to all the different occupation specialty Signal signal platforms that wouldn’t be Support Systems Specialist, or available in the normal Army, is 25U, are vital to the mission definitely a benefit to joining SFAB, success of the 1st Security said Phillips. Force Assistance Brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia. During King’s prior assignment, he was a capability developer at Fort SFABs are new brigades Huachuca, Arizona, where he was specifically trained and built to part of the future development of Sgt. 1st Class Douglas King,