It is critical to be able to verify the integrity of systems used in military and other applications to ensure that they have not been modified or corrupted. It is of course best to prevent a system from being tampered with. If this can’t be done, it is vital to detect tampering. In many cases it is better to prevent a system from operating at all if you can’t be sure it hasn’t been modified.
There is vastly more copper-based twisted-pair Ethernet infrastructure deployed on military and aerospace platforms than there is fiber-optic cable-based wiring. For one thing, the cost of copper cabling and its related connectors keeps being driven downward by the economies of scale brought about by its widespread use, helping to make it virtually ubiquitous.
Recently, I had the privilege of addressing the delegates at the Embedded Tech Trends (ETT) industry forum [in San Diego January 28-29]. I spoke about what we at Abaco see as one of the most pressing concerns for our industry, and one that we take extremely seriously: The issue is one of ensuring the absolute security of our supply chain.
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) officials selected the Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. (PARC, a Xerox company) and George Mason University (GMU) to work under the agency's Configuration Security program (ConSec).
Perspecta Labs -- a research unit at Perspecta Inc. -- participated in seven-day exercise under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Liberty Eclipse Phase II exercise in collaboration with the Department of Energy and the Department of Homeland Security to test grid recovery tools during a staged, multi-faceted cyberattack on a U.S. power grid.
Lockheed Martin officials signed a Prototype Project Agreement through an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with Consortium Management Group (CMG) on behalf of Consortium for Command, Control and Communications in Cyberspace (C5). The contract is valued at $18 million.
VMD Corp., a systems integrator and IT-security contractor, has won a $77 million contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to support the USAF Office of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer (SAF/CIO A6) in its cyberspace-protection mission.
BAE Systems will be able to compete for future cyber engineering task orders awarded under a seven and a half-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ), U.S. Navy contract.
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) officials signed the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) Cyber Security Support Services (CSSS) contract with Leonardo to continue to deliver cyber-incident detection and management capabilities.
Frost & Sullivan’s analysis titled "Envisioning the Next-Generation Cybersecurity Practices," presents an overview of cybersecurity in enterprises and analyzes the drivers and challenges to the adoption of best practices in cybersecurity. It also covers the technologies impacting the future of cybersecurity and the main purchase factors.
Perspecta Labs -- a research unit at Perspecta Inc. -- will continue its research and development (R&D) work on cyber defenses against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under a new contract modification worth up to $2.7 million, dependent on successful completion of milestones.
Enlighten IT Consulting, LLC -- a business unit at MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB), an Alion company -- is partnering with Business Enabled Acquisition & Technology (B.E.A.T. LLC) on a contract award for the U.S. Air Force (USAF).
On June 8th, 2018, the world’s fastest supercomputer, the IBM/NVIDIA® Summit, began final testing at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Peak performance comes in at over 200 petaflops and 3.3 exaflops for tensor operations.
