EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Perspecta Inc. announced that its innovative research arm, Perspecta Labs, won a task order from the U.S. Army as the Applied Research and Experimentation Partner (AREP) for the cybersecurity Collaborative Research Alliance (CRA) program. The program has a maximum potential value of $25 million over a five-year period of performance if all options are exercised.

SALLY COLE, SENIOR EDITOR

University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) researchers, together with scientists at the U.S. Army Research Office, developed a cyber agility framework to gauge the activity of cyberattackers and corresponding network protection over time.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Airbus CyberSecurity and Thales, two European cybersecurity companies, have signed a partnership agreement to offer a solution against cyber attacks combining the file analysis system Orion Malware from Airbus CyberSecurity with Thales’s intrusion detection system Cybels Sensor, which obtained Security Visa from the French national cybersecurity agency (ANSSI) in April 2019.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) announced that the National Security Agency (NSA) has certified its new TACLANE-Nano (KG-175N) network encryptor to secure voice, video, and data information classified Top Secret/SCI and below traversing public and private IP networks.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

BAE Systems cyber division, Applied Intelligence is to collaborate with a newly formed Cyber Security Research program at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Perspecta Labs, the applied research arm of Perspecta Inc. has won a contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to enhance and mature its Bus Defender solution for operational testing in airborne platforms. According to company information, the Bus Defender tool detects and blocks cyberattacks and attempts to carry out adversary missions via MIL-STD-1553 buses while ensuring and maintaining proper bus transmission and operation.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Anomali, intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions company, unveiled the Anomali Altitude platform during the Detect 2019 conference. The Anomali Altitude platform delivers Anomali Lens, Anomali ThreatStream, and Anomali Match and is intended to allow customers to automate detection, analysis, and response for high-priority external and internal threats.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The U.S. Army's Combat Capability Development's Army Research Laboratory's Center for Distributed Quantum Information saw researchers at the University of Innsbruck achieve a record for the transfer of quantum entanglement between matter and light — a distance of 50 kilometers using fiber optic cables. Such an internet could offer the military security, sensing, and timekeeping capabilities not possible with traditional networking approaches.

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The National Security Agency (NSA) launched a Cybersecurity Directorate to bring the agency's foreign intelligence and cyber defense missions together. The new directorate will focus initially on the defense industrial base and the weapon's security improvement, the agency said, calling it an effort to "unify as a nation against our threats."

EMMA HELFRICH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

BAE Systems will provide intelligence support to the U.S. Army in a $437 million task order, the company announced. BAE Systems will deliver open source capabilities to the Army from publicly available sources, and will provide the Army's Intelligence and Security Command with training, policy and governance recommendations, assessments, and implementation of emerging capabilities.

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