The Air Force has approved the weapons system designation for six of its cyber capabilities as part of an ongoing effort to make cyber a normal part of its operational capabilities for warfare, said Lt. Gen. John Hyten, the Air Force Space Command vice commander.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 11, 2013
A Northrop Grumman unit will furnish research and development services for intelligence tools used by the Air Force and other federal agencies under a $40.5 million contract.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 11, 2013
The Defense Information Systems Agency command responsible for helping bring about interoperability among different U.S. forces and coalition partners is preparing to deploy this summer for exercises with the U.S. Africa Command.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 10, 2013
The Navy will begin moving its systems that host publicly releasable information to commercial cloud service providers as a first step toward eventually deploying most of its systems to the cloud environment, said Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 09, 2013
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a five-year, $80 million contract to upgrade and enhance a tactical data link communication processor that furnishes critical information about friendly and enemy activity during combat operations
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 09, 2013
The effort to create a legal framework for cyber warfare has taken a giant leap with the creation by international legal scholars of 95 rules set forth in a manual designed for international distribution and use that can be applied to cyber dust-ups around the globe.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 08, 2013
That thing you see in the ocean one day might not really be a monster jellyfish that mutated into the size of a human being but rather the outcome of a university project to develop a autonomous robot for the U.S. Navy.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 08, 2013
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, SC, awarded 15 companies contracts for “decision superiority” services—including interoperable command, control, communication, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems—that could potentially be worth about $900 million.
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 05, 2013