U.S. Military Network Modernization Efforts Go Smaller, Simpler and Standardized
Efforts to modernize U.S. Marine Corps networks might have begun when the service worked to blur the lines between garrison and tactical networks, when nearly two decades of continuous war left the military with little opportunity for modernization beyond what troops needed immediately on the battlefield.
Securing the Infrastructure Within the Nation's Critical Infrastructures
November marks the Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience month. The strongest assembled securities available today can't fully safeguard the nation's critical infrastructure assets. But the good news is that these vulnerabilities are front and center on official radars and primed for increased attention.
L-3 Awarded Common Data Link Contract
L-3 Communications Corp., Communication Systems West, Salt Lake City, Utah, was awarded a $499,987,656 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for common data link and sate
Northrop Supports Hunter UAS in Afghanistan
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Sierra Vista, Arizona, was awarded a $190,254,770 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for continuation of co
General Dynamics Awarded Deep Acoustic Path Exploitation Contract
General Dynamics Mission Systems Maritime and Strategic Systems, McLeansville, North Carolina, is being awarded an $18,882,390 cost-plus-fixed-fee compl
U.S. Navy Modifies Shipboard Communications Contract
BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, Rockville, Maryland, is being awarded a $12,149,950 modification (P00013) to a previously award
Northrop to Produce MQ-8C Fire Scout
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, is being issued a $10,362,211 modification (P00001) to a previously awarded fi
Is Cybersecurity for the Nation's Critical Infrastructure Rooted In the Past?
Efforts to increasingly digitize networks that run the nation’s critical infrastructure enterprises also are boosting attack surfaces and vulnerabilities in an enduring cybersecurity contest in which hackers target those weaknesses with an elevated furor, experts admonished during a panel discussion on the issue. What can industry, government and academia contribute to shore up the weaknesses that could bring the United States to its knees?
IARPA Pursues Virtuous Computing
Cray Inc. Awarded Supercomputing Contract Modification
Cray Inc., Seattle, was awarded a $26,559,500 modification (P0017) to contract W912DY-13-G-0022 for Department of Defense high-performance computing moderni