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Defense Daily
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Cal Biesecker
Articles By Cal
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Business/FinancialEastern Shipbuilding, GD List OPC Design Teammates
As with fellow competitor Bollinger Shipyards, Eastern Shipbuilding Group and General Dynamics [GD] both include foreign shipbuilders in their respective designs for the first design phase of the United States […]
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Business/FinancialDHS Launches Voluntary Program To Support Industry Cyber Resilience
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday launched a new voluntary program aimed at improving industry awareness of a new set of cyber security standards and practices to help […]
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Business/Financial‘Fear’ Will Motivate Industry To Bolster Cyber Defenses, AT&T Chief Says
The number one incentive to driving private sector entities to strengthen their capabilities against cyber attacks is “fear,” the head of telecommunications giant AT&T [T] said Wednesday. The threat of […]
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Business/FinancialBollinger, Eastern, GD Win Coast Guard Contracts For OPC Preliminary Design
Marking another key step toward recapitalizing its aging fleet, the Coast Guard late Tuesday afternoon awarded preliminary design contracts to three companies, Bollinger Shipyards, Eastern Shipbuilding Group, and General Dynamics […]
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Business/FinancialRelease Of Cybersecurity Framework Just A Start
Industry officials don’t anticipate any surprises Wednesday when the Obama administration is expected to release the final version of a voluntary set of cyber security best practices and standards that […]
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Business/FinancialL-3 Boosts Dividend Nine Percent
With strong free cash flow, L-3 Communications [LLL] on Tuesday said its board has increased the company’s quarterly dividend by nine percent, the 10th consecutive annual dividend increase by the […]
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Business/FinancialHID Global Acquires Fingerprint Sensor Developer Lumidigm
HID Global, the United States-based division of Sweden’s Assa Abloy, on Monday said it has acquired fingerprint sensor developer and provider Lumidigm, extending its portfolio of authentication products and allowing […]
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UncategorizedBriefing
The Transportation Security Administration plans to award Federated IT, Inc., a one-year contract worth up to $8.6 million for adjudication services and security threat assessments for individuals applying for credentials […]
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Army Ready for New Round of ABIS Testing
The Army this month will begin a new round of end-to-end customer testing of its upgraded biometric database after a delay to fix problems encountered in an earlier round of […]