cyber
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Securing the supply chain
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 [...]
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Radar/electronic warfare funding up, but AI takes first dibs
Department of Defense (DoD) funding is crucial to continue advancements in radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems. “DoD budgets are always difficult to characterize directly,” says Chris Rappa, product line director for Radio Frequency, Electronic Warfare and Advanced Electronics within BAE Systems FAST Labs [Arlington, Virginia], “there are few line items that directly point to [...]
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Perspecta Labs tests cyber-weapon hunting tech in DARPA's power cybersecurity exercise
CHANTILLY, Va. 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.
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Lockheed Martin to leverage Silent CROW to develop cyber/EW system
ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Maryland. 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.
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B.E.A.T. and Enlighten IT partner under cyber analytics USAF contract
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Maryland. 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).
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NGA awards BAE Systems five-year contract for intel, analytics support
FORT BELVOIR, Va. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded BAE Systems a five-year, $250 million contract to continue providing full-motion Video (FMV) advanced analytic services, training, and intelligence production support to the agency; NGA's task in this area is to analyze FMV feeds to provide actionable intelligence in the pursuit of national security.
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Charles River Analytics creates tool to help AI communicate effectively with humans
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Developer of intelligent systems solutions, Charles River Analytics Inc. created the Causal Models to Explain Learning (CAMEL) approach under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) effort.
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Cybersecurity efforts underway for USAF Global Hawk ground control stations
DULLES, Va. Raytheon officials received a subcontract to deploy sustainment and cybersecurity experts around the world to support the ground control systems and onboard sensors used by the U.S. Air Force fleet (USAF) of RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft.
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'Swarm and Search AI Challenge' launched by U.S., U.K. research institutes
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio. Officials at the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Wright Brothers Institute, and the University of Dayton Research Institute launched an artificial intelligence (AI) challenge that will conclude with a final showdown on March 29 - 31, 2019.
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DARPA launches GAPS to create physical guarantees when exchanging secure data
ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials kicked of the Guaranteed Architecture for Physical Security (GAPS) program, which aims to develop hardware and software architectures that can provide physically provable guarantees around high-risk transactions, or where data moves between systems of different security levels.
Chris Cummins, Abaco Systems
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Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
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