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Report: Attacks will happen, so reduce the time to detection
Cisco's mid-year threat report says attacks are becoming too sophisticated to prevent all of them. Organizations need to focus on finding them sooner.
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Navy awards $97M deal for radar jammers
Exelis will provide the latest versions of the jammers used to protect carrier-based Hornets from electronic warfare threats.
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Army opening a new cyber campus in Alabama
AMRDEC at Redstone Arsenal will dedicate the facility to conducting tests, simulations and research to in the cyber domain.
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Army WAVES off the mobile disconnect
The software connects disparate radios, phones and PCs, enabling communications between U.S. military, coalition and emergency response units.
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Can real-world rules be applied to cyber response?
Policies for responding to cyber attacks are still emerging, but some say that accepted norms regarding physical attacks offer a good guide.
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Lockheed Martin begins layoffs at NORAD
Pink slips come in advance of GAO ruling on contract protest.
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Leidos-led team wins $4.3B DOD health records contract
The long-awaited deal calls for the overhaul of the Defense Department’s health system.
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For DOD, building the cyber force is a team game
The cyber force is only halfway towards its personnel goal, but members are making marginal strides in training, recruitment and defining roles in the emerging operational domain.
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Survey: Shadow IT haunts DOD networks
Sixty-three percent of IT pros in the department said unauthorized apps and services are used, and 70 percent expect the practice to grow, a Solar Winds survey found.
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Hackathon helps improve DARPA’s Plan X
The program looks to make it easier to visualize a network and recognize malicious activity.
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Warfare 2050: robots, augmented humans and force fields
An Army-sponsored workshop examined what the battlefield of future decades could look like based on current trends, technologies and trajectories.
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Dell releases family of secure, fast wireless firewalls
The SonicWALL TZ series taps the speed of 802.11ac wireless to add deep packet inspection at line speed.
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Satellite-launching drone program enters next phase
DARPA awards Boeing $6.6 million to continue developing the reusable, hypersonic Experimental Spaceplane.
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Navy, Marines order up more Blackjack UAS
A $78 million contract modification calls for six more of the drones used for ISR and target acquisition on land and at sea.
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Air Force wants common tools for pay-as-you-go cloud
The service wants to establish standard processes that could work for all the military services in support of the JIE.
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With new night-vision goggles, soldiers don't need a scope to aim
The system wirelessly connects the goggles with a weapon-mounted sight, allowing soldiers to shoot from the hip or around corners without exposing themselves.
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IARPA wants an early warning system for cyber attacks
The agency is looking to combine internal and external sensors and monitors to try to identify attacks in their early stages.
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National Guard wants to make more domestic use of drones
A recent report outlines the uses unmanned aerial vehicles could serve in domestic airspace, as well as the constraints standing in the way.
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How the cyber domain blurs the lines on warfare
Most military leaders and experts agree that stealing information is not an act of war. But what's the cyber equivalent of taking up arms?
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