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SEMPRE acquires NewSpace Networks.
The latest: SEMPRE (Secure EMP Resistant Edge), 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
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SEMPRE.ai, the technology company created to secure America's critical infrastructure, today announced the acquisition of NewSpace Networks to further safeguard and expand the availability of terrestrial, maritime, airborne and space-based wireless communications. Integration of the two companies' technologies has been underway for more than a year, with the first commercial products having been tested domestically with the U.S. Department of Defense. By combining SEMPRE's heterogeneous edge compute, hardware hardening expertise and 5G core development with NewSpace Networks software experience, virtualization and networking knowledge the company has combined these technologies into a complete survivable, micro-edge datacenter solution. The specific terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.
"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 (secure EMP-resistant edge) 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 Resistant 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 (Secure EMP-Resistant Edge) 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 (Secure EMP-Resistant Edge) 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 Resistant 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
