Cyber
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CyberNavy Needs Secure And Interoperable Networks To Defeat Adversaries, Official Says
By Geoff Fein Without secure and interoperable networks, the Navy won’t be able to achieve two of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) cooperative strategy’s overarching themes–cooperation among all maritime […]
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Cyber
Marine Corps Seeks Ways To Solve Battlefield Network Connectivity, Rapid IT Procurement
By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps is looking for solutions to maintaining network connectivity in theater as well as ways to rapidly procure information technology, according to a top Marine […]
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CongressObama Proposing $42.7 Billion For DHS, Including $355 Million For Cyber Security
By Calvin Biesecker The Obama administration yesterday proposed an FY ’10 budget request that includes $42.7 billion in discretionary spending for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a more than […]
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ArmyNew DoD Biometrics Database Already Demonstrating Worth, Officials Say
By Calvin Biesecker The Defense Department’s next-generation biometrics repository that went online in late January is already exceeding the capabilities of the system it replaced and is also showing itself […]
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Business/FinancialDISA Looks To Buy Software Service On Demand
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 […]
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Business/Financial
Northrop Grumman: DCGS-IC SOA Approach More Flexible, Cuts Life Cycle Costs
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 […]
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Business/Financial
CH-53K Cockpit A Good Example of Navy’s OA Effort, Official Says
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 […]
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Business/Financial
MH-60 R/S Open Architecture Effort Reaps Benefits For Commonality and Cost
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 […]
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Army
DoD Turns Switch On New Biometric Matching Database
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 […]
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Cyber
FBI Aims For Initial NGI Capability By Late 2010
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 […]