Atlantic Organization for Security (AOS)
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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]...
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.,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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)....
C4ISR / Contracts / Cyber Security / US DoD
The U.S. Army and Northrop Grumman Corporation have successfully completed anarchitecture review of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) BattleCommand System (IBCS). IBCS is the first major Army acquisition to proactivelyincorporate the evaluation...
The U.K. has strongly rejected the idea of a European Union operations headquarters for planning and carrying out EU military and civil missions abroad. The proposal was put forward by Catherine Ashton, the EU’s...
The cyber threat the United States faces is increasing in severity and is accessible to a wide range of enemies, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said in a television interview broadcast. “Most...