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With our electrical grid having been attacked recently, and new attempts to breach our critical infrastructure occurring constantly, it is interesting to see that a program has been in place to protect these vital assets...
While refining the systems that protect the homeland against long-range ballistic missile attacks, the United States is advancing technologies to counter the growing threat of short- and medium-range missiles launched by rogue states or...
Italian Defense initiated a phase of profound change, which is necessary to adapt its structure and organization in compliance to the changing international context and respecting the financial constraints. In this context a “Ministerial Guidance...
Britain launched a National Cyber Security Programme in late 2010 with funding of 650 million pounds ($1.04 billion) over the period of 2011 to 2015 and the Ministry of Defence has been allocated 14...
New ”State of the Nation’s Armed Forces” report from UK National Defence Association highlights capability gaps across all three Services Report co-authors Admiral Lord West, General Sir Michael Rose and Air Chief Marshal Sir...
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that it has appointed retired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. P. Stephen Stanley as vice president of Cybersecurity/C4, effective immediately. Stanley will report to Sid Ashworth, corporate vice president, Government Relations....
Companies interested in submitting ideas should e-mail 20-page white papers to the Air Force’s Trevor Sullivan and Maj. Chris Anglin at trevor.sullivan@hanscom.af.mil andchris.anglin@hanscom.af.mil no later than 21 Feb. 2013. A half-day industry briefing on...
Wireless data communications experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are asking industry to develop a military data link able to transmit data at 100 gigabits per second within one radio...
The 2013 US Defense Authorization Act allows the department to institute pay raises, bonuses and incentive pay for personnel. “All military construction has to be authorized under this act,” the official said. It includes...
President Barack Obama has signed into law a $633 billion US defense spending bill that funds the war in Afghanistan and boosts security at US missions worldwide. “I have approved this annual defense authorization...
Intelligence analysts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are moving to the next phase of a program to design a next-generation intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation and...
GPS jammers are readily available and capable of overpowering satellite signals, leaving your forces blind and vulnerable. When signals from GPS satellites reach the Earth, they are at very low levels – well below...
Reconnaissance and surveillance experts at the Raytheon Co. Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., are helping a U.S. military effort to provide useful persistent-surveillance imagery on-demand to the lowest-echelon warfighter in the field from...
New system incorporates best classification practices from each office The U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) today announced the formal launch of the Cooperative...
In its efforts to promote a systematic approach towards Pooling & Sharing, the European Defence Agency (EDA) defence ministers agreed to systematically consider cooperation in their national defence planning. EDA Pooling & Sharing Code of...
Company veteran Michael Kurth will oversee Boeing’s unmanned airborne systems as of Jan. 1. Kurth will relocate to St. Louis as vice president and general manager, Unmanned Airborne Systems Programs, reporting to Boeing Military...
The defence and security company Saab has signed a framework agreement with Italian Piaggio Aero Industries. Within the framework agreement Saab receives an order for the integration of surveillance systems in Piaggio Aero’s new...
Laptops used to be the best way to have portable computing. They could be made light, rugged, and powerful and were used everywhere. Now, all you see are tablets and smart phones, and there’s...
Reliably monitoring extensive areas of the sea is a major challenge for the coastguard and emergency relief services. Unmanned aircraft are expected to make a critical contribution to this in the future. In December...
The HADR is a ground-based air surveillance defense radar that was first deployed in Germany over thirty years ago. Today, obsolete components make maintenance costly, difficult and time consuming while the technology and computer...