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Contractors Fuel, Provide Personnel for US’ Worldwide Proliferation of Drones, Bases
Published on 30 Dec, 2011 at 13:58 in C4ISR | Viewed 15 times | No Comments
More civilian contractors are working directly with the U.S. military and CIA to gather intelligence and execute offensive strikes as the U.S. continues to expand the number of drones it operates around the world.
Many of these contractors are helping drive the U.S.’ demand for their personnel by rapidly evolving drone technologies and capabilities, working in tandem with the U.S. to develop a global network…
DHS Keeping Watchful Eye on Social Media, Storing Information
The Department of Homeland Security announced last month it was looking into how it could use Twitter as an intelligence tool and how to monitor social media networks.
DHS is now creating accounts to monitor site activity and establish an archiving system for the information it gathers, ABC News reports.
“The…
DRS to Connect Special Ops C4ISR Systems on Tablet Platform
Published on 28 Dec, 2011 at 11:23 in C4ISR | Viewed 43 times | No Comments
DRS Technologies‘ tactical systems subsidiary will soon provide the U.S. Navy with joint platform tablet systems. The platform will provide a common interface between all C4ISR systems for special operations vehicle platforms.
The Pentagon announced the platform tablet systems will aim to enable users to control and monitor all communications, navigational, command and control and intelligence…
App Mall, Geospatial Collaboration in Works as Army Moves Intelligence to Cloud
Published on 27 Dec, 2011 at 17:21 in Cloud | Viewed 54 times | No Comments
In October, the director of the National Security Agency wanted to make clear to a Baltimore audience his views on the intelligence community using cloud computing.
“We need to go from our legacy databases to the cloud,” Army Gen. Keith Alexander said.
Alexander explained that cloud computing offers a better end-to-end view of…
Pentagon Thinks Semantic Web Key to Cutting IT Costs
Published on 28 Nov, 2011 at 16:15 in Cyber | Viewed 23 times | No Comments
Cost-efficiency is both a buzzword and a norm for the government in an era of tightened budgets. The Defense Department is no exception and the Pentagon is looking to information technology as the key to achieving the goals of both cost-efficiency and information sharing.
Semantic web is the path the Pentagon has chosen for IT, according to Federal…
Raytheon Trusted Gateway Added to UCDMO Baseline List
A Raytheon data transfer platform, Trusted Gateway System, has been approved by the Unified Cross Domain Management Office to be on the office’s Version 4.1 Baseline list.
The list contains products using cross domain technologies and solutions. These products are available to agencies in the Defense Department and the intelligence community.
“Effective and secure information sharing…
Kratos Notches NeuralStar Sales to U.S. Defense, Intel Agencies; Phil Carrai Comments
Published on 5 Oct, 2011 at 12:51 in Industry News | Viewed 43 times | No Comments
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has announced sales valued at a total of $1.1 million to four major U.S. defense and intelligence agencies of its NeuralStar network management and situational awareness software product.
The names of the agencies were not disclosed.
NeuralStar monitors, aggregates and integrates mission-critical network availability,…
Symantec Intelligence Reports Finds Public Sector is Most Targeted by Phishing Activity
Symantec‘s September 2011 intelligence report found that in the U.S., the public sector remained the most targeted by phishing activity with one in every 125.8 e-mails comprising a phishing attack.
The report also found that the public’s sector spam level was 74.5 percent, greater than all but the education sector, 77.2 percent, and the chemical and pharmaceutical sector, 74.6 percent.
The company…
USIS Taps Stephen Synnott to Lead Intelligence Analysis, Tech Solutions
Published on 14 Oct, 2010 at 9:24 in Industry News | Viewed 259 times | 1 Comment
Stephen Synnott has joined USIS, an Altegrity company, as director of intelligence analysis and technology solutions.
Synnott reports to USIS Security Solutions Division President Mike Fraser and is based in Falls Church, Va.
“Steve’s experience in the intelligence analysis space and strategic vision within the…
Raytheon Ups Game to Fight Cyber Threats with New Acquisition
Published on 5 Oct, 2010 at 8:16 in Industry News | Viewed 138 times | No Comments
Raytheon has acquired Technology Associates, Inc., a company that provides full life-cycle computer engineering to mission-critical programs in the Intelligence Community.
The new company, named Raytheon Technology Associates, will be integrated with Raytheon’s Information Security Solutions product line within the Intelligence and Information Systems business.
“Now more than ever, our…
