Announcement: Air Force Global Strike Command launched a $1.8M partnership with SEMPRE.ai, with the award of a two-year Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) contract. You can read about it here.
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. -- Air Force Global Strike Command launched a $1.8M partnership with SEMPRE.ai, a technology company created to connect, protect and secure America's critical infrastructure, with the award of a two-year Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) contract through the Air Force Research Laboratory's AFWERX innovation arm.
ARLINGTON, Va., February 21, 2024 (Newswire.com) - SEMPRE.ai, the technology company created to secure America's critical infrastructure, today announced its selection as one of the approved vendors for the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Advanced Concepts Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), administered by the Air Force Program Executive Office for Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (AF PEO NC3).
SAN DIEGO - Jan. 30, 2024 - Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), AT&T*, and SEMPRE demonstrated the ability to securely share sensitive, classified military data across geographies at high speeds. The demonstration showcased how flightline maintenance and sustainment can be digitally transformed to reduce time and costs associated with aircraft maintenance and repair.
The transportable/fixed SEMPRE T communications and high-performance edge processing node, providing 5G Stand Alone cellular, satellite, WiFi and LoRaWAN communications + applications/AI, successfully completed High Altitude EMP testing at White Sands Missile Range conducted by Applied Research Associates as part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agencies Modern Prometheus program.
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2023 - SEMPRE, the technology company created to protect and secure critical infrastructure, is proud to announce that Rear Admiral David Simpson (ret) and Lt Gen Scott Kindsvater (ret) have joined the company as strategic advisors.
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2023 - SEMPRE.ai, the technology company created to secure America's critical infrastructure, today announced that it has partnered with Vector to provide secure, resilient, mobile command-and- control infrastructure for Vector's rapid launch capability.
March 8, 2023, BELLEVUE, Washington -- 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) announced today that international telecommunication leader e& has joined its innovation ecosystem. The Lab also announced today its Batch 7 cohort. 14 hand-picked multi-stage startups join 5G OI Lab's Spring program, which begins this week.
Ellyn Winters-RobinsonIgnition Communications (PR for 5G Open Innovation Lab)
When SEMPRE was founded in 2019, it was premised on the belief that 5G was moving cellular infrastructure increasingly to software, away from bespoke hardware. It was a seized opportunity to rethink architecture for telecommunications.
Rob SpaldingFounder and Chief Executive Officer, SEMPRE
SEMPRE combines software and hardware technologies in multiple form factors to support user experiences in both mobile or remote operations and allow decoupling from the cloud.
Robert B. CleaveChief Operating Officer, SEMPRE
Identify Weaknesses. Every supply chain is different, and as such they don't have the same vulnerabilities. For some, it might be geopolitical instability leading to potential disruptions in the supply of critical components (lithium). For others, it might be nation-state hackers or even unaffiliated collectives aiming to create inherent vulnerabilities in shipped products (motherboards or IC components). Either way, it isn't possible to efficiently secure a supply chain without knowledge of its inherent weaknesses.
David LeichnerCMO at Cybellum
WASHINGTON, September 29, 2022 (Newswire.com) - SEMPRE, the technology company created to protect and secure critical communications infrastructure, and rural telecommunications provider Viaero Wireless of Colorado are jointly announcing a cooperative agreement to secure and strengthen digital infrastructure in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept 7, 2022 - SEMPRE.ai, the technology company created to secure critical infrastructure, today welcomed Jose Arrieta as a strategic advisor for federal acquisition.
The latest: SEMPRE, a tech startup run by retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, wants to offer its technology to allow Ukrainian soldiers to communicate securely without having to rely on traditional communications networks.
Ina Friedauthor of Axios Login
"Infrastructure today is not hard; it's not survivable — at least what we're talking about here, that is commercial infrastructure," said Robert Spalding, CEO of the firm SEMPRE, which had a research contract with the military.
Theresa HitchensReporter, Space and Air Force, Breaking Defense
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SEMPRE, the technology company created to secure America's critical infrastructure, today announced that in the course of testing its new secure private 5G and edge solution it discovered, in conjunction with Jaxon Engineering, that certain commercial-off-the-shelf smartphones were able to resist an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that can be caused by the detonation of a nuclear device. Tested models include the Apple iPhone 12 and the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G.
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Satellite 2022 -- SEMPRE, the technology company created to secure America's critical infrastructure, today announced that General Timothy M. Ray (USAF ret.) has joined the company as Strategic Advisor. As the former Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, General Ray will lend his expertise in strategic deterrence to support SEMPRE's mission to reinforce and protect digital infrastructure.
Back in 2018, White House National Security Council official Gen. Robert Spalding wrote a controversial PowerPoint deck on how the U.S. government could play a greater role in building 5G networks. Now Spalding has left government and military service and landed $20 million to bring some of his vision to life via a private company.
Ina Friedauthor of Axios Login
Robert Spalding, CEO of SEMPRE, maintained that the connection between 5G and national security is largely an issue of economic opportunity and investing in our national infrastructure. “Unfortunately, we tend to think about what China is doing, not what we should be doing. All of these applications are wonderful, but ultimately they need infrastructure to enable them. And today when infrastructure is built it's single tenant single use, and that's a problem…so what 5G enables is this ability to have multi-tenant multi-use in infrastructure that gets built.”
Latest patent filings for edge computing show that China's industries are innovating rapidly. Some are worried about its implications for Western democracies.
Afiq Fitridata journalist, Tech Monitor
Former White House National Security Council official Gen. Robert Spalding is making waves again in the 5G arena, this time with a startup selling hardened cell towers and data centers.
News AnalysisMike DanoEditorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies
The squabble over 5G spectrum that is pitting the FAA and airline industry against the FCC and wireless carriers is indicative of a broader failure by the United States to protect the digital access and privacy rights of its citizens.
Tomorrow, Sempre is raising its first 5G tower in Colorado Springs, Colorado, according to information from the company. Sempre is a digital infrastructure company founded by Brig. Gen. (ret) Robert Spalding and a team of national security and telecom pioneers, the company said. Sempre said it provides military-grade 5G and high-performance edge computing infrastructure for telecom operators, first responders, government and enterprise customers.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding (Ret.), former senior director of strategy at the White House National Security Council, announced the Digital Atlantic Charter initiative, a public-private effort focused on safeguarding democracies worldwide.
As commercial 5G service rolls out across the U.S. with the promise of 100 times greater speeds than its 4G predecessor, it's time to examine how the U.S. military can equip the modern warfighter with an upgrade to today's outmoded battlefield communications infrastructure.
A Washington, D.C.-based digital infrastructure company has developed new encrypted 5G towers that could boost speed and security for military communications.The company, Secure Electromagnetic Pulse Resilient Edge, or SEMPRE, launched over the summer. Its flagship product, the SEMPRE tower, could allow the military to securely use 5G to transmit data, said CEO Robert Spalding, a retired Air Force brigadier general.
Meredith Roatenauthor at National Defense
The global deployment of fifth-generation wireless networks is as fraught with peril as it is with promise.The allure of 5G is obvious: Data speeds are up to 100 times as fast as prevailing 4G and 4G/LTE service, and 5G offers immense network capacity that promises to connect billions of people and devices. The exponential leap in cellular bandwidth and digital interconnectedness has the potential to revolutionize markets, from health care and entertainment, to industrial manufacturing and the energy sector.
This week's podcast: An interview with former NSC member Brigadier General (ret.) Robert Spalding, now the CEO of a company that just emerged from stealth mode with a technology that will not only battle-harden modern 5G networks, it'll help pave the way to the post-smartphone world. The world is courting disaster by making more and more of everyday life reliant on 5G systems that are vulnerable to cyberespionage.
MWJ: What led you to launch a military-grade, 5G network technology company to combat these types of attacks and help secure America's infrastructure?Robert Spalding: As a career military officer, B-2 pilot and military strategist, I came to the conclusion that our nation's critical infrastructure - our telecommunications and computing networks - has become the key to ensuring the sovereignty and independence of our constitutional republic. At the same time, in spite of the constant cyber-attacks like Colonial Pipeline and physical attacks like last year's Nashville bombing, America is not really on a path that ensures people, companies and our way of life are protected.
Sempre has announced it has secured a $20 million seed round from US family offices, led by Goff Capital and joined by Hayman Capital Management. Sempre provides the first EMP-hardened, resilient, secure military-grade communications and high-performance edge-computing infrastructure for telecom operators, first responders, government, and enterprise customers.
New members AQSACOM, RADTONICS, Turnium, SEMPRE, and Wavelabs.ai bring expertise across cyber intelligence, digital, industrial, and network solutions to LF Networking, while telco branches of Oman and Costa Rica governments further diversify community collaborationFocus on an end-to-end open 5G stack, new LFN members diversify the 5G Super Blueprint enabling end users like service providers and government deployments
In the race to data dominance, China is leagues ahead of the United States - aided and abetted by Silicon Valley tech companies with little incentive to protect the rights of Americans to data access and privacy.
SECURE 5G PROVIDER SEMPRE REINVENTS DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND EDGE COMPUTING TO ADDRESS SECURITY VULNERABILITIESWASHINGTON, June 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SEMPRE, a digital infrastructure company led by Brigadier General (ret) Robert Spalding and a team of national security and telecom pioneers, today emerged from stealth mode. SEMPRE provides military-grade 5G and high-performance edge computing infrastructure for telecom operators, first responders, government and enterprise customers.
* Q NETWORKS WAS REBRANDED AS SEMPRE IN SUMMER 2021.
The US energy grid, and all of the critical infrastructure that supports it, is about to get a lot smarter. That does not mean a lot safer.
Designed to aid battlefield communications, the SEMPRE tower facilitates were developed for sharing encrypted data between military personnel in a secure environment. According to National Defense Magazine, Secure Electromagnetic Pulse Resilient Edge developed the SEMPRE tower to address this need and has been putting it through its paces since last summer.
In an age when American national sovereignty depends more than ever on our ability to access and manage secure, interconnected data, the newly passed $1 trillion U.S. infrastructure bill is the latest failure to invest in our technology future.
BOSSIER CITY, LA. — THREE COMPANIES HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF AIR FORCE GLOBAL STRIKE COMMAND'S AIRCREW ALERTING SYSTEM.* Q NETWORKS WAS REBRANDED AS SEMPRE IN SUMMER 2021.
Sean Green, STRIKEWERXMarketing and Communication Director
