NATO’s Newest Bombing Tool: Twitter
In the early days of the Libya war, U.S. commanders were adamant that they didn’t communicate with the Libyan rebels about what targets to bomb. As it turns out, they don’t need to. They’ve...
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Boeing and Northrop Grumman proposal on Competitive Missile Defense Contract
The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation submitted their final proposal for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States’ ballistic missile defense system. Following proposal submission, the companies...
ManTech Awarded USD 7M Cyber Defense Support Task Order to US Air Force
The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded ManTech International Corporation (NASDAQ:MANT) a task order under its Alliant Government-Wide Acquisition Contract vehicle to provide cyber defense support to the U.S. Air Force 90th Information Operations...
NATO Seeks Greater Operational Efficiencies
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen rarely uses the term “transformation.” He prefers instead to discuss “smart defense,” an initiative Rasmussen launched at the Munich Security Conference last February. “[Smart defense] is not [about]...
Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., Northcom and NORAD commander: “Every time you exercise, you learn something new.”
Winston Churchill’s : “Everywhere men pray for peace, but prepare for war.” Navy ships, Army ground-based radar and missile systems and Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard aircraft have descended on Key West, Fla.,...
Claude-France Arnould, EDA: “it is ‘vital’ Europe has ISR capabilities”
Europe must have its own space-based ISR capabilities to ensure precision and limit civilian casualties when conducting military operations, said Claude-France Arnould, the head of the European Defence Agency (EDA). Space-based assets are of...
National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander: “cloud computing is safe, cuts costs”
NSA director says cloud computing is actually pretty secure and that we need to change the way we think about defending IT systems, Computer World reports. Alexander says the cloud not only cuts IT...
Gen Keith Alexander: By shifting to a “cloud architecture,” the US would save money and be better placed to protect vital computer networks. – Regina Dugan, DARPA director: “in the coming years we will focus an increasing portion of our cyber research on the investigation of offensive capabilities to address military-specific needs,”
The Pentagon’s researchers plan to bolster their efforts to create offensive weapons for use in cyberwarfare, reflecting a growing concern over digital threats, U.S. officials said Nov. 7. The U.S. government needed “more and...
Brett Lambert, deputy assistant secretary of Defense to industry: “Deliver quality or make reduced or no profits”
A key Pentagon official stressed the importance of a robust U.S. defense sector, but he also delivered some tough love to private firms. As their annual budgets shrink, Pentagon officials must ‘adapt’ their decisionmaking...
Army looks to troops for smart-phone tech advice
Smart-phone technologies, already familiar to many young soldiers who are once and future gamers, might be changing the face of warfare. Deployed commanders are pleading for more devices equipped with minicomputers and programmed with...
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General: four NATO goals for the Chicago Summit
110930 Towards NATO vs Chicago Summit – Chicago hosts world leaders next May for NATO and G-8 summits and on Friday Sept, 30, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen laid out four NATO goals...
Medical Initiative to Save Estimated $254 M, Improve Warfighter Support
A new initiative Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical is participating in could realize $254.1 million in savings to customers over five years, while improving support to warfighters. Nancy Richardson, of the DLA Troop...
DOD Works to Boost Smartphone Security
As the Defense Department seeks innovation made possible by smartphones and other mobile computing platforms, it’s also working to ensure DOD users of those devices employ them securely, a defense official said. “Because of...
Sharing Intelligence Helps Contractors in Cyber Defenses
A new pilot program in which Defense Department officials share classified threat intelligence with defense contractors or their commercial Internet service providers is showing promise in increasing their cyber defenses and preventing enemy intrusions...
DRS to Provide UAS Simulation Services for Joint UAS Center of Excellence
DRS Defense Solutions announced that it has been awarded a contract by Fleet & Industrial Supply (FISC) in Norfolk, Va., in support of the Joint Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excellence (JUAS COE) at...
Army Cyber Command Focuses on Protecting Vital Networks
Warfighters operating on the front lines in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, can be confident that a corps of “cyber warriors” has their backs, and is working to protect the computer systems they...
Raytheon and Tobyhanna Army Depot Enter a Public-Private Partnership
Raytheon Company and Tobyhanna U.S. Army Depot have signed a pledge of commitment for a public-private partnership to support various electronic and radar systems. Signed by Wayne Iurillo, vice president of the Raytheon Technical Services...
DARPA Launch Cyber Fast Track Program
Peiter Zatko, a hacker known as Mudge who now works at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has told security experts at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas of DARPA’s new “Cyber...
Carter Nominated as Next U.S. Deputy SecDef
President Obama will soon nominate Pentagon acquisition executive Ashton Carter to become deputy Defense secretary replacing William Lynn. Lynn is expected to step down as the Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian this fall after more...
U. S. Army: up to USD 514 million to Finmeccanica for STORM-mLRF
Finmeccanica, through its company DRS Technologies, has been awarded a contract valued at up to USD 514 million by the U.S. Army to supply the Small Tactical Optical Rifle Mounted Micro-Laser Range Finder (STORM-mLRF)....