Cyber

By Calvin Biesecker A House panel on Tuesday approved an authorization bill for the Science and Technology (S&T) branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that would boost the […]

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. […]

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 […]

By Calvin Biesecker Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday introduced a new suite of software management tools it is offering to utilities, system operators and defense customers to give them more insight […]

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 […]

By Calvin Biesecker A $19 million planned reduction in FY ’11 for cyber security spending stems from new organizational efficiencies on managing cyber within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]

Unisys [UIS] said it has received a $32 million, contract from Mexico’s Mnistry of Internal Affairs to create and manage a citizen identification database based on fingerprint, iris and facial […]

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for novel biometric signatures that can be captured by non-contact methods. Specific signatures that currently require […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been slow to deploy devices at ports of entry that can read digital information stored in electronic-Passports that would help a Customs official […]

By Calvin Biesecker 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 […]