Now that the magnitude of cyber attacks have increased and these acts have become so pervasive, governments have taken action to try and bring these malicious actions under control. Many of these attacks are conducted by independent hacktivists and criminal organizations. McAfee, Symantec and other security firms have all issued report after report about current trends […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2009
Our boy Greg Grant passed this information down to us that he obtained from someone on the plane with SecDef Gates on his trip to the AO: And I’ll be asking about equipment in general. For example, one of the members of Congress told me offline at the hearings the other day that he heard […]
UPDATED UPDATE: Courtesy of our good friends at Soldier Systems, it looks as if PEO has indeed fielded 1100 individual shot detection systems — but not the BBN one. Oddly enough, despite funding the development of Boomerang Warrior, the Army seems to be much keener on the QinetiQ North America’s Soldier Wearable Acoustic Targeting System […]
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. The decision by Northrop Grumman/EADS North America not to submit a bid for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 replacement competition is largely seen as continued posturing by the team, rather than an end to its ambitions to win back the $35-billion deal to rebuild aerial […]
It seems to be the mystery du jour and I’ve been getting a lot of correspondence from readers about it over the last two weeks. Looks as if the Air Force has confirmed the existence of the “Beast of Kandahar” — a tailless, flying-wing designed drone that looks a lot like NorGrum’s planned Naval UCAS […]
