Cyber
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Business/FinancialCobham To Acquire U.S. Information Security Firm
By Calvin Biesecker United Kingdom-based Cobham yesterday said it has agreed to acquired Argotek, Inc. for $36.3 million in cash in a deal aimed at bolstering the company’s capabilities and […]
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CyberOperating On The Network Will Require A New Way of Looking At Security, Official Says
By Geoff Fein As the battlefield becomes network centric, with warfighters relying more and more on data collected by sensors and unmanned systems, keeping that information secure will be a […]
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Business/Financial
Rockwell Collins To Acquire SATCOM Systems Provider DataPath
By Calvin Biesecker Rockwell Collins [COL] yesterday said it plans to acquire DataPath, Inc., a provider of satellite communications (SATCOM) network solutions to military and commercial customers, in a deal […]
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Business/Financial
Navy Simultaneously Shoots Down Cruise And Ballistic Missiles In 3rd Fleet Exercise
By Geoff Fein The 3rd Fleet is evaluating data collated from last month’s Stellar Dagger exercise that showcased for the first time a simultaneous downing of a ballistic missile in […]
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Air ForceJoint Staff Developing Common Standards, Policies, To Integrate Services Into The GIG
By Geoff Fein The Joint Staff is working a number of challenges, from bringing together the services’ netcentric efforts under one umbrella, to developing data standards, all meant to ensure […]
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ArmyGD’s Use of Open Source In NETT Provides Army Testers Real World Network Threats
By Geoff Fein General Dynamics [GD] is relying on open sources for its Network Exploitation Test Tool (NETT) to provide the Army with the same type of threats the service […]
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Cyber
Growing Demand For Bandwidth Requires Effective Management of Resources, Official Says
By Geoff Fein With commercial demand for bandwidth and spectrum growing exponentially, the military is tasked with finding ways to effectively manage those resources while at the same time investigating […]
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Business/Financial
DHS Issues Conficker Worm Detection Tool To Help Assess Risks To Computer Systems
The Conficker computer worm on April 1 will turn on millions of bots spread across the global computer network commanding them to infect systems, or not. Whether an elaborate April […]
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Army
GD’s NETT Finds Vulnerabilities In Networks, Improves Data Collection For Operators
By Geoff Fein The Network Exploitation Test Tool (NETT), developed by General Dynamics [GD], provides a cyber threat test on friendly force systems for vulnerability analysis and system evaluation. Additionally, […]
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Business/Financial
GD Develops Ability To Access Secure And Unclassified Networks On One Computer
By Geoff Fein General Dynamics [GD] has developed the Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE) to solve a long-term problem of being able to take multiple computers with top secret, secret, and […]