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Mythics Inc., Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been awarded a $293,247,466 firm-fixed-price contract for an Air Force-wide enterprise software license agreement.

AAI Corp., doing business as Textron Systems, Hunt Valley, Maryland, is being awarded a $14.8 million contract modification to provide additional units of the Unmanned Influence Sweep System to support mine countermeasure requirements.

Ushering in full-blown mobility for the military will require technology advances, particularly in areas of automation and security management. With mobile no longer a fringe idea, troops want to avail themselves of all the bells, whistles and efficiencies the ecosystem offers. But security concerns continue to crimp the Defense Department’s migration to what is otherwise commonplace in the private sector.

NATO support for the ongoing study of military applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) falls under the auspices of the agency’s Science and Technology Organization (STO) and its Collaboration Support Office (CSO).

The trend of high-profile distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks marks the beginning of what is shaping up to be the new normal of breaches brought to us courtesy of easily exploited Internet of Things (IoT) devices.