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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...
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...
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...
Cyber crime and cyber terrorism know no borders – robust defence and deterrence calls for cooperation between the public and private sectors as well as at the international level. For the first time, Ukraine’s...
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...
Boeing, SELEX Sistemi Integrati signed a Memorandum of Collaboration for global interoperability on Future Global Air Traffic Management Systems Boeing and SELEX Systemi Integrati S.p.A, a Finmeccanica Company, announced the signing of a Memorandum...
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...
On 20 September, NATO formally launched the procurement process for the full operational capability of NATO’s cyber defences, due to be up and running by the end of 2012, as well as a multinational...
Increasing informational superiority in the age of information CASD, Oct, 10 2013, Rome, Italy The workshop is organized by the Center of European Air Forces Studies (CESMA), part of the Italian Air Forces Association....
NATO is reinforcing cybersecurity for its entire communications and information systems architecture and on all of its networks, including unclassified, restricted and secret networks. The project will be implemented in several phases and is...
• $997 Million ID/IQ Contract: Northrop Grumman Corporation has received an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) award from the U.S. Army to provide force protection systems and components in theater and the continental United States....
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...
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