Cyber

By Geoff Fein Although much of the Navy’s work in open architecture (OA) has been on the acquisition side of the service, efforts are underway on the requirements side to […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy begins to incorporate unmanned systems into the fleet, service officials are going to have to deal with a number of challenges ranging from acceptance […]

By Calvin Biesecker The time is now to begin implementing strong steps to defend the nation’s "digital resources" and the effort must be led by an empowered director of a […]

Cyber security legislation to be introduced later this year by two senators has five basic principles, including giving the Department of Homeland Security the backing and personnel needed to monitor […]

By Jeff Beattie The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is seeking authority to require that utilities take mandatory measures to guard against cyber-threats or other attacks on the U.S. electric […]

ITT Corp. [ITT] has received a $169.3 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) as part of the AN/SPS-48G Radar Obsolescence, Availability Recovery (ROAR) program, the company reported. The […]

By Geoff Fein In its seventh quarterly report to Congress on naval open architecture (NOA), the service has again demonstrated progress toward encouraging competition, building modular design and interoperable joint […]

By Geoff Fein Until earlier this year, many junior sailors trained for conducting shipboard helicopter takeoffs using archaic tools–including wooden models to simulate aircraft. But an urgent request from Helicopter […]

By Geoff Fein General Dynamics [GD] wrapped up builder’s trials of its variant of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) earlier this week, putting the vessel through dozens of tests in […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy and its industry partners are into production on most of the computing hardware and nearing the final software release for the components that will operate […]