

But while other developers have been keen to expand on the theme, adding everything from 3D graphics to first-person perspectives, Westwood has always remained true to its retro roots.


It's a simple formula, and a much-imitated one. Somewhere else on the battlefield your opponent is doing the same. A few units and a battlefield with scattered resource fields at your disposal, you build a base, harvest these resources, and use funds thus gained to construct an army. Command & Conquer games, in the past, have followed the same recipe. “By sharing our tools and knowledge, we encourage these talented individuals to understand the nuances in building space system resilience and to work in this ever-important domain.Westwood isn't exactly a name people associate with innovation. Kenneth Decker, SSC director of Engineering, Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power and Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications.

“Space cybersecurity is a global issue, which is why it is important that Hack-A-Sat is open to the global security researcher community,” said Col. The event will start with a virtual qualification from April 1 to 2, and the top four teams will advance with last year’s winner to the final stage on Aug. Air Force, Space Force, and the security research community, and was previously held either in a physical laboratory hardware or in a digital twin platform.įor Hack-A-Sat 4, participants will experiment on the on-orbit satellite Moonlighter, which is targeted for launch in early summer. The competition was conceptualized by the U.S. Hack-A-Sat is in its fourth year and will take place in both on-orbit and digital twin environments for the first time, SSC said Tuesday. Space Systems Command has kicked off the registration period for Hack-A-Sat, an annual satellite-hacking competition challenging security researchers to address cybersecurity obstacles in space technologies.
