http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2010 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:52:17 EDT By Geoff Fein The nation needs a new cyber security strategy with a clear statement on the use of key elements of governmental authority, according to a Microsoft [MSFT] official. The country needs to improve the authority to prosecute individuals who are not... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9658.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] are completing their prototypes after having spent the past three years working to be one of the two selectees to develop the Navy's Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System (CANES) program. Recently, the... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9569.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL) plans to solicit proposals for automatic target recognition (ATR) algorithms that could be applied to the whole body imaging systems that the Transportation Security... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9570.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently introduced a new suite of software management tools it is offering to utilities, system operators and defense customers to give them more insight into their enterprise operations and to provide command and control of their smart... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9571.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST CACI [CACI], Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC], G2 Software Systems Inc., Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] were each awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) award from the Navy to provide command and... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9572.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The Navy yesterday awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] $14.9 million and Northrop Grumman [NOC] $17.4 million contracts for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system, a directed approach to reduce infrastructure and... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9548.html Fri, 5 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST CACI [CACI], Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC], G2 Software Systems Inc., Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] were each awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) award from the Navy to provide command and... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9493.html Tue, 2 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST AeroVironment (AV) (AVAV) recently announced it received firm fixed-price orders valued at $20,731,992 for digital Ravenr unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and digital retrofit kits, and $17,141,648 for Raven system spare parts, repairs and training services... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9437.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST CAE [CAE] recently announced the company is launching a family of new, affordable helicopter mission simulators for the previously underserved civil helicopter market. The first CAE 3000 Series simulator will be available for training by the summer of 2010... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9438.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST About 75 percent of enterprises have experienced some sort of cyber attack in the past year and most are reporting "somewhat to extremely fast growth" in the pace of attacks, according to a survey released recnelty by the information security firm Symantec... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9439.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST A new standard being sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that will allow software firms the ability to access data from airport security imaging technologies such as X-ray machines should be ready this summer, allowing third party vendors... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9440.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST SAIC [SAI] recently said it has acquired an on-line simulation and collaboration software product line from Forterra Systems, Inc., which provides a real- time virtual world enabling interpersonal interation through human-like avatars for collaboration... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9441.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST Lockheed Martin [LMT] and IronKey have partnered to develop a secure USB drive with military-grade encryption that is being dubbed a "PC on a stick." "We took advantage of this platform and its security offerings from a hardware perspective and we put... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9442.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The Army is taking the unusual step of pushing development of flexible displays for everything from soldier worn devices to vehicles, hoping to speed up commercialization of the technology. A number of years ago the Army recognized that flexible... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9348.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST Lockheed Martin [LMT]. and Kaman Aerospace [KAMN] announce Feb. 8 they have demonstrated to the Marines the capability of its K-MAX unmanned helicopter to resupply troops in Afghanistan. The K-MAX is in use in private industry--primarily in logging and... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9323.html Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST A pilot program to improve the way companies take advantage of the Navy's Software, Hardware Asset Reuse Enterprise (SHARE) repository is set to go live in March. "We stood up a pilot to try better understand how to frame an environment for using software and... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9324.html Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST The Army Research Lab (ARL) aims to put its robotics research efforts into enabling the teaming of future autonomous systems with soldiers, a program official said at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International in Washington D.C., said... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9325.html Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST The Navy recently took a step into the battlespace of the future as the service officially opened the doors to the new Fleet Cyber Command (FLTCYBERCOM), where victory in the new domain will be predicated on information and intelligence instead of firepower... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9326.html Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] and IronKey have partnered to develop a secure USB drive with military-grade encryption that is being dubbed a "PC on a stick." "We took advantage of this platform and its security offerings from a hardware... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9339.html Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein The next award phase for the Navy's future jammer will be a technology development phase that will include a competitive prototype, according to a service official Almost every program now is moving toward competitive prototyping, Capt John... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/9328.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST