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Calvin Biesecker | February 20 2019 5:26 pm

New White House Strategy Says Threats To Aviation System Are Broader

The U.S. aviation system faces a growing and increasingly challenging array of threats, including the use of cyber activities, drones, ...
Calvin Biesecker | February 6 2019 5:38 pm

China's Cyber Attacks Growing More Sophisticated, DHS Officials Say

Over time China is becoming more sophisticated in its cyber espionage activities, making them more difficult to detect and to able to hit ...
Calvin Biesecker | January 24 2019 5:56 pm

Engel, McCaul Reintroduce Cyber Diplomacy Bill

The top Democrat and Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday reintroduced legislation to position the U.S. State ...
Calvin Biesecker | January 18 2019 4:06 pm

Huntington Ingalls Bolstering Government Services Business With Fulcrum Acquisition

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] on Friday said it has agreed to acquire Fulcrum IT Services in a deal that will strengthen and expand ...
Calvin Biesecker | January 16 2019 3:46 pm

Culmen International Acquires Data Analytics Company Centrifuge Systems

Culmen International on Tuesday said it has acquired Centrifuge Systems, adding capabilities in data integration and visualization software. ...
Calvin Biesecker | January 4 2019 5:22 pm

Democrats' 'For The People' Bill Heavy On Election Security

Democrats on Friday released a huge reform bill aimed at ensuring voting rights, strengthening ethics in the executive branch, improving ...
Calvin Biesecker | December 20 2018 4:52 pm

Congress Passes Cyber, Supply Chain Security Legislation

The House and Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a legislative vehicle containing several bipartisan bills dealing with cyber security, ...
Calvin Biesecker | December 20 2018 3:27 pm

U.S. Accuses China Of Stealing From Aviation, Satellite And Multiple Other Industries

Chinese hackers in association with China's intelligence services have been hacking into data networks and stealing data and sensitive ...
Calvin Biesecker | December 18 2018 5:20 pm

GAO Finds Most Agencies Lacking In Adopting Federal Cyber Security Requirements

Despite congressional mandates and presidential orders, most federal agencies are still behind in implementing standards and frameworks for ...
Calvin Biesecker | December 18 2018 2:08 pm

Raytheon, Saudi Aramco In Cyber Security Joint Venture

Saudi Arabia's national oil company and Raytheon [RTN] have agreed to establish a joint venture that will provide cyber security ...
Calvin Biesecker | December 13 2018 5:28 pm

AIA Issues Baseline Cyber Security Standards For Aerospace And Defense Industry

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) on Thursday released a risk-based cyber security standard aimed giving companies in the ...
Matthew Beinart | December 5 2018 4:46 pm

DoD Proposes Rule To Eliminate Lowest Price Technically Acceptable For IT Acquisition

The Pentagon is looking to implement a new procurement rule that would block contracting officers from prioritizing the lowest price ...
Calvin Biesecker | December 4 2018 3:47 pm

TSA Releases Cyber Security Roadmap To Guide Efforts To Protect IT, Transportation Systems

On the heels of a new national cyber security strategy, the Transportation Security Administration on Tuesday released its own roadmap for ...
Woodrow Bellamy III | November 30 2018 5:08 pm

Lockheed Lowering F-35 Simulator Costs Through 3-D Printing

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is using 3-D printing, or additive manufacturing, technology to lower the cost of manufacturing F-35 flight ...
Nick Zazulia | November 19 2018 5:15 pm

Belgium Picks General Atomics MQ-9B For High-Altitude Surveillance

Belgium’s government has approved the start of negotiations for the purchase of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) ...
Frank Wolfe | September 26 2018 3:46 pm

Lockheed Martin Readies ARES UAS For Flight Demo At Yuma Proving Ground

Lockheed Martin [LMT] is readying the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) for a flight demonstration this fall, possibly as early ...
Dan Parsons | September 25 2018 5:09 pm

Bell Unveils V-247 Autonomous Tiltrotor and It's the Size of a Huey

Bell [TXT] unveiled the full-size mockup of its V-247 autonomous tiltrotor Sept. 25, and it is much larger than a scale-model suggests. ...
Calvin Biesecker | August 17 2018 4:15 pm

DHS Issues RFI For Industry Help To Develop Cyber Supply Chain Risk Assessment Capability

Continuing its efforts to create a capability to assess risks to cyber supply chains, the Department of Homeland Security is conducting ...

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