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Homeland Security

Cyber Defense Agency Receives $1M for Cyber Risk Metrics

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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

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Cyber Defense Agency, LLC, a Wisconsin-based security consulting and research services firm, has received a one-year, $1 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop risk metrics for cyber security. Under the contract CDA will be assessing which technologies and combinations of technologies and architectures work best in protecting networks, Sami Saydjari, CDA's president, tells TR2. He says that CDA will combine a risk assessment system it is developing with a modeling system developed by the Univ.…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]