Cyber

By Geoff Fein A few years ago, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) began an effort to get processing and storage capacity on demand–buying capacity as a service and not […]

Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Distributed Common Ground System-Intelligence Community (DCGS-IC) Beta Operational Capability (BOC) has become an operational Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), providing the system greater flexibility and efficiency compared to […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy’s decision to go with Rockwell Collins‘ [COL] Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) will not only make the service’s CH-53K common with Army helicopters, but it […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy begins to introduce the MH-60 R and S helicopters into the fleet, the ability to achieve commonality as well as interoperability will be vital […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Defense Department late last month formally turned on its new biometric database that features multimodal storage and matching capabilities as well as fusion technology that further […]

By Calvin Biesecker The FBI expects to have a greatly improved capability for matching fingerprints by late 2010 as part of its Next Generation Identification (NGI) system under the current […]

By Geoff Fein The Coast Guard is looking to leverage off of the Navy’s open architecture efforts, not only to improve commonality between the two sea services, but to push […]

By Geoff Fein Boeing [BA] is applying open architecture (OA) concepts to its own enterprises, recognizing the need to embrace OA in its own environment so the company can incorporate […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy was hard at work in 2008 implementing open architecture into its aviation, space, submarine and weapons systems domains, as well as Marine Corps programs. Aside […]

By Geoff Fein The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) is looking to issue its request for proposal (RFP) on or about Jan. 30 for the Consolidated Afloat Networks […]