Cyber

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s move to incorporate open systems into its surface combatant fleet is providing opportunities for companies that have not traditionally relied upon defense for their revenues. […]

By Calvin Biesecker and Geoff Fein President Obama yesterday selected Howard Schmidt, an information security expert with wide ranging experience in the public, private and law enforcement arenas, to be […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy begins installing advanced capability 08 (ACB 08) on its cruisers, those ships are also sending fire control officers and technicians to school to train […]

By Calvin Biesecker Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are hopeful that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will make a decision in the first week of January on whether to […]

By Geoff Fein The perceived lack of a imminent threat, along with dwindling budgets and shrinking industrial base, are having a significant impact on the development of undersea warfare systems, […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) yesterday said it will deploy its Einstein 1.0 computer network intrusion detection system to Michigan’s computer networks, marking the first federal-state cyber security partnership. […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy moves toward open architecture (OA) and looks to upgrade software and hardware at lightning speed, putting those systems through the traditional operational test and […]

General Dynamics [GD] Advanced Information Systems has been awarded a three-year contract potentially worth $100 million by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to produce integrated circuits for the Navy’s Trident II […]

By Geoff Fein The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is developing systems to enable Marines to take advantage of the Sun’s energy to charge batteries, run radios, laptops and sensors, […]

By Calvin Biesecker Lockheed Martin [LMT] yesterday announced it has partnered with a number of utility companies to improve the nation’s electric grid and partnered with a leading university to […]