Use NATO to Fight ISIS in Europe
(copy of a Bryen’s article: see below) – Europe is in a war but it does not seem to know it. Neither does NATO which has not been called upon to fight the war. All of...
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A Model for State Cybersecurity: Raytheon-Estonia collaboration
Estonia’s collaboration with Raytheon, which includes business-to-business engagement and initiatives to build the ranks of cyber experts, continued in 2016 with the U.S.-Estonia Symposium on Cybersecurity and Defense Cooperation Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C....
Hungary look for India’s investment in Defence Industry
Defence is a sensitive area where Budapest was looking for Indian investment in reviving the defence Industry, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a joint press conference with visiting Vice President Hamid Ansari....
MD5 – A New DoD National Security Technology Accelerator
The MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator, a public-private partnership between the Department of Defense (DoD), New York University (NYU) and a large network of top U.S. research universities, has been officially launched at a...
Hardware firewall the answer for secure SME Internet access
Many businesses are dependent on fast, reliable, and secure Internet connectivity, but are struggling to find network security solutions that can keep up with their ever-growing needs. A hardware firewall appliance may be the...
Raytheon: 98M$ for Cybersecurity Research & Support to U.S. Navy
Raytheon Company has been awarded a $98 million contract by the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific for cyberspace science, research, engineering and technology integration. “Our team combines Raytheon’s warfighting experience,...
NCOIC NATO IPT Begins Work
The NCOIC NATO Interface Working Group has been renamed the NATO Integrated Project Team and is now meeting every two weeks, with Gustavo Scotti di Uccio as chair. The team will work to understand the NATO...
GBP800M for Future-Tech and Ideas
• The UK MoD is determined to create a culture that is innovative by instinct, to drive innovation through strategic planning, to catalyse innovation through science and technology and to find new ways to...
LM and Leidos Successfully Closes Information Systems & Global Solutions Transaction
The merger will add IT system implementation and operation experience to Leidos portfolio, providing venues to sell services such as cybersecurity and analytics, officials say. On January 2016 Lockheed Martin (Lockheed) announced that it has started the process to...
NATO: €3 Bn in cyber, air and missile defence and advanced software capabilities.
Contracts will be let between now and 2019 to procure NATO satellite communications worth €1.5 billion, advanced software, and air defence capabilities. The first contracts have already been put out to tender. Koen Gijsbers,...
DARPA: advanced solutions for cybersecurity
PFP Cybersecurity , a provider of unique, physics-based anomaly detection technology, today announced it has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security (LADS) program...
NCOIC Interoperability Verification Added to NATO’s IT Acquisition Processes
The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium presented the Interoperability Verification it developed for NATO to an international audience at the NITEC 2016 conference in Tallinn, Estonia, June 7-9. Marshall “Tip” Slater, NCOIC chief financial officer, described how Interoperability...
Pentagon Unprepared to Deter Cyber Attacks
In the event of a catastrophic cyber attack on civilian infrastructure, the US military’s Cyber Command is one of the first and major lines of defence. However, the Pentagon won’t be able to test...
SDIA Naples
Napoli, June 17 – under the AFCEA and AOS sponsorship, and hosted by the LUPT, the “Small Defence Industrial Alliance, an internationalization opportunity” workshop has seen local SMEs and Academia Departments gathering to discuss...
Hypersonic Flight: The Role of Italy
The Centre for Aeronautical Military Studies (CESMA), following the recommendations given by the First International Symposium, has set up a Working Group on Hypersonic Aircraft, with the intent to deepen reflection on the possibility,...
TeSeR: EU project to clean up space
Orbital space is becoming increasingly congested. Space debris threatens space-based infrastructures which are vital for life on Earth. Disused spacecraft are a potentially dangerous source of space debris. The TeSeR project develops technologies that...
Sagem: contract for more that 200 LR Infrared Binoculars
Sagem (Safran) has received a new order for more than 200 JIM-LR long-range multifunction infrared binoculars from the army in a NATO country. The order will also include remote-control terminals, and will be added...
Austal awarded contract for 26th Littoral Combat Ship
The U.S. Navy has modified Austal USA’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) block-buy contract to include an eleventh ship, LCS 26, the Navy announced today. LCS 26 will be the 13th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship...
Sagem: contract for 200 JIM-LR long-range multifunction infrared binoculars
Sagem (Safran) has received a new order for more than 200 JIM-LR long-range multifunction infrared binoculars from the army in a NATO country. The order will also include remote-control terminals, and will be added...
NCIRC and CERT-EU Arrangement for Cooperation on Cyber Defence
NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) and the Computer Emergency Response Team – European Union (CERT-EU) signed on Wednesday an agreement to enhance cooperation in the sphere of cyberdefense, the European External Action Service (EEAS) said in a statement....