Lockheed Martin and AT&T partner on 5G Black Hawk test

By Evan Ochsner / September 9, 2022 at 9:30 AM
Lockheed Martin and AT&T used both companies' 5G networks to rapidly transport Black Hawk flight data from an aircraft in Connecticut to a testing site in Colorado during an Aug. 4 test, Lockheed Martin announced Friday. During the test, the companies used AT&T’s private cellular network to transfer data from a Black Hawk Integrated Vehicle Health Management System to Lockheed’s 5G.MIL network, before using 5G.MIL to route the information to local Sikorsky networks and then onto the facility in Colorado,...

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