Cyber

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System (CANES) is not only taking a number of existing legacy efforts, funneling them down into a single program, but whichever […]

By Geoff Fein Bids for the Navy’s Integrated Topside (InTop) task order 3 competition, exploring how to combine apertures and antennas on surface ships, were turned in last week, and […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy begins to look at buying technologies to protect its networks, in particular those aboard ships, officials face a number of challenges ranging from the […]

By Calvin Biesecker 3M Corp. [MMM] yesterday said it has agreed to acquire Cogent Systems [COGT], a provider of biometric software matching systems and hardware, for $430 million, complementing its […]

By Calvin Biesecker The official revelation by a senior Pentagon official this week that its military computer network was breached in a cyber attack two years ago is old news […]

By Geoff Fein Since bringing together all of its shipyards under one roof, Northrop Grumman [NOC] Shipbuilding has pulled together its supplier base under a single vice president to further […]

By Geoff Fein Northrop Grumman [NOC] is taking an unusual approach to its Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System (CANES) effort by offering up all of its data rights to the […]

By Geoff Fein The two teams competing for the Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) contract are both taking different approaches to how they look to reduce infrastructure […]

The Coast Guard yesterday accepted its latest installment of the nationwide Rescue 21 search and rescue system, which in this case will provide communications capabilities for the entire Chesapeake Bay […]

By Calvin Biesecker Computer chip maker Intel Corp. [INTC] yesterday said it has agreed to acquire the software and network security firm McAfee, Inc. [MFE] for $7.7 billion in a […]