Cyber

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 […]

By Calvin Biesecker Over the next several years the Department of Homeland Security will be rolling out improvements to the federal government’s primary cyber intrusion detection system, called Einstein, with […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s number-two officer said last week the military must treat cyber security as a weapon system and weigh hard decisions when boosting cyber-warfare efforts, including the […]

By Geoff Fein The Department of Defense (DoD) is undertaking a number of efforts to overcome the challenegs of interoperability in information systems using a variety of commercially available technologies, […]

By Emelie Rutherford A future version of the Einstein cyber-assault-monitoring system that may be able to "shoot down" attacks on federal government computers will be tested in the coming months, […]