Cyber

By Calvin Biesecker Testing over the spring and summer of biometric technologies to record the departure of foreign nationals from U.S. airports was successful, according to an official with the […]

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday said that her department has received new authority to staff up to 1,000 cybersecurity related positions over the next three years as part of […]

Computer Sciences Corp. [CSC] and Germany’s Siemens [SI] have each won contracts worth close to $500 million each from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to provide computing hardware and services […]

By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps and Navy are expected to begin fielding this fall an over the horizon, on-the-move command and control system that can be integrated into a […]

By Geoff Fein Earlier this month, Raytheon [RTN] unveiled its latest naval self-defense radar technology–the AN/SPY-5, phased-array system, which can track more targets compared to dish arrays and simultaneous threat […]

By Calvin Biesecker With the ink barely dry on Boeing‘s [BA] first one-year contract option for the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) program, if the company’s performance on the program continues […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy last month took delivery of its first of five low-rate initial production (LRIP) airborne mine neutralization systems (AMNS) and Raytheon [RTN] will have the remaining […]

By Calvin Biesecker Oversight of major acquisition programs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been improving, particularly in the past year with new management guidance, but still falls […]

By Geoff Fein Earlier this month, the Navy awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $93.8 million contract for low-rate initial production (LRIP) of the company’s Standard Missile- 6 (SM-6) Block I that […]

By Geoff Fein Reducing the gear, including communications equipment, an individual Marine has to carry is a significant challenge due to the complexity of bridging advanced technologies into form factors […]