Lockheed Martin and Elbit Systems of America LLC have been working to develop a green hybrid small unmanned aerial vehicle that runs off of renewable energy sources, Military & Aerospace reports. The request is part of the Air Force’s “Small Unmanned Renewable Energy Long Endurance Vehicle program,” which selected and Elbit in May 2011 to [...]
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. has won a prime contract to provide engineering and technical services for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) programs for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Kratos announced Monday. The contract is potentially worth $40 million over one base year and four one-year options. Kratos said it [...]
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Lockheed Martin has delivered an upgraded P-3 Orion aircraft to Customs and Border Protection, the company announced Monday. CBP uses the P-3 for drug enforcement operations and homeland security. Lockheed said the delivery is the fourth P-3 upgrade the company has delivered to CBP in 18 months. According to CBP, the P-3 carries a crew [...]
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Raytheon‘s next-generation weather forecasting system is fully operational at the National Weather Service‘s Omaha, Neb. forecast office, Raytheon said Monday. Raytheon said Omaha is the first of 135 NWS sites that will use the updated Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System. The AWIPS II system will work with operations that make weather predictions and dispense information about [...]
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The Justice Department‘s website was shut down Thursday afternoon in what the FBI called a “denial of service attack.” The hacking group “Anonymous” claimed responsibility for the attacks on its Twitter account (@YourAnonNews). The attacks are believed to be in response to an indictment and shutdown of the popular file-sharing website Megaupload. “Anonymous takes down [...]
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The Army will ask for permission to fly unmanned aircraft in civilian airspace near Army bases for training, according to a recent Army memo. As part of the process, the Army will apply for a certificate of authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate drones near Fort Stewart, Ga., AOL Defense reports. “The Army’s [...]
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Nonprofit security professional organization (ISC)2 has expanded a program for assisting cybersecurity professionals in earning ceritifcations and skills for a future federal career. The group said it is including new certifications for its Associate of (ISC)2 Program. The group says the program is open to all interested candidates and that it maps to the Cybersecurity Workforce [...]
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Citizens who want to listen to congressional proceedings and debates now have an iPad application for that, the Government Printing Office said Wednesday. The GPO said the Committee on House Administration requested that information regarding congressional hearings be available on an app. The GPO worked with the Library of Congress to develop an app so that [...]
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The U.S. and five countries are forming a partnership to expand wideband global satellite communication capabilities, the U.S. Air Force announced Wednesday. The Air Force said senior defense officials from Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the U.S. held a steering committee meeting. The agreement calls on the partnership to contribute $620 million [...]
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The National Security Agency has released a version of Android that features stricter-access control policies, according to InformationWeek. Security Enhanced Android was designed to identify and address gaps in Android’s security regarding applications, including problems with malicious and bad apps. The project page says the new version will limit damage from bad apps. NSA said [...]
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