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Raytheon Company has acquired privately held Henggeler Computer Consultants, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction will not materially impact Raytheon’s total company sales or earnings per share for the fourth quarter...
Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to incorporate Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) capability into its suite of APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) transponders to support...
NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) today selected IBM for a strategic technology project to gain experience with emerging information technologies to improve data center efficiency and increase data sharing by its 28 member nations....
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...
Finmeccanica, through its Finmeccanica Cyber Solutions team, and Northrop Grumman Corporation, announce today that they have signed a Teaming Agreement in order to respond to the proposal for the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) –...
Raytheon Company has acquired Pikewerks Corporation, a privately held company, to further extend Raytheon’s capabilities to defend against sophisticated cybersecurity threats facing customers in the intelligence community, Department of Defense and commercial organizations. Terms...
Lockheed Martin UK has officially opened its first Security Intelligence Centre (SIC) at Farnborough, extending its global reach and augmenting facilities in the United States. The Centre was opened today by Gerald Howarth MP,...
The Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation has contracted with the Dusseldorfbased Rheinmetall Group and its Russian partner JSCo Oboronservis to build a major army training centre in Mulino, Russia. Located in the Volga...
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...
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...
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin $46.8 million in contract options to begin modernizing 29 long-range radars which provide advanced warning and air traffic control surveillance over North America’s airspace. Under initial options...
ASD Cyber Report Maj. Gen. Patrick Fermier, director of NATO C3 Staff: “information sharing is a key parameter of success in any military operation.” Maj. Gen. Isaac Ben-Israel, adviser to the Israeli PM: “”there...
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 EU’s single market commissioner said Nov. 7 that the European Commission has decided to establish a defense policy task force. Speaking at a Security and Defence Day event in Brussels, Commissioner Michel Barnier...
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...
Cyber Atlantic 2011 exercise is part of an EU-US commitment to cyber security which was made at the EU-US summit in Lisbon on 20 November 2010. – The event, Cyber Atlantic 2011, was the...
Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, has developed the world’s most powerful radar for battlefield surveillance for use by the German Armed Forces. Owing to a combination of the latest technologies, this...
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems AS in Peterborough, England, is adding passenger flow forecasting and passenger line time management capability based on artificial intelligence software to the company’s Airport Realtime Collaboration (ARC) system, which...
Muon tomography is the only technology available that can accomplish the original U.S. congressional mandate of 100% screening of cargo for nuclear materials. Given its effectiveness, scalability and passive nature, the technology is also...