The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has partnered with Technica to develop a system that would use artificial intelligence algorithms to collect data from multiple devices and allow soldiers to exchange information in areas where connectivity is limited, Nextgov reported Friday.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report that cites the potential of CyberX’s technology to help manufacturers avoid cyber attacks on industrial control systems. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence partnered with multiple software providers to document how behavior anomaly detection tools can help manufacturing companies secure a robotics-based production system or […] More

BAE Systems has received a potential $5.2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop automated tools for the analysis and detection of cybersecurity risks to large-scale enterprise networks. The company said Tuesday it will help DARPA create, evaluate and demonstrate platforms that can help organizations defend against sophisticated threats as part of the agency’s Cyber-Hunting […] More

Richard White, president of government systems business of Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary, has said he believes on-orbit satellite servicing initiatives could transform the basic principles of how industry and government use and regard satellites, the Via Satellite magazine reported in its August 2018 issue. White mentioned the company’s on-orbit assembly work through the Dragonfly program with NASA […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has concluded its two-week evaluation of an RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine variant as part of the agency’s Experimental Spaceplane program with Boeing. DARPA said Tuesday it coordinated with Aerojet Rocketdyne in fire testing the AR-22 engine using an aircraft-like approach. Experimental Spaceplane Program Manager Scott Wierzbanowski said the […] More

Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary built and provided the transceiver assembly components for a pair of Microwave Ranging Instruments that took off in May as part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission of NASA and the German Research Center for Geosciences. Al Tadros, vice president of SSL’s space infrastructure and civil space, wrote […] More

Sacramento, Calif.-based firm Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a new in-space engine that will potentially be used for future robotic operations on the moon. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Wednesday the ISE-100 engine accumulated 75 individual tests, 774 pulses and over 500 seconds of hot-fire time during the evaluation period. ISE-100 will now enter the certification phase, which […] More

David Mihelcic, federal chief technology and strategy officer at Juniper Networks, has said federal information technology administrators should leverage firewalls, switches, routers and other network components to protect agency networks from cyber threats amid the prevalence of internet-connected devices. Mihelcic wrote in a FedTech guest post published Wednesday that agency IT leaders should combine those […] More

Argus Cyber Security and Renesas Electronics have integrated their respective offerings to develop a new security system designed to keep connected and autonomous vehicles safe from potential cyber attacks. The Argus Connectivity Protection and Argus Lifespan Protection systems were merged with the Renesas R-Car H3 system-on-chip automotive computing platform to help mitigate potential threats to vulnerable attack […] More

As if there was not enough instability in our current political climate, Congress has plans to limit funds for the U.S. Army‘s battlefield network development program until they submit a modernization plan for its tactical communications and data networks, according to a recent report by C4ISRNET. The final annual defense policy bill contains language to […] More

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said new technology platforms have emerged that work to help federal agencies build up their cyber “defensive postures” through endpoint protection, GCN reported Tuesday. Chehreh cited Dell EMC’s adoption of a technology tool in RSA’s Archer dashboards designed to detect anomalies in empirical data through risk management […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with cybersecurity startup CyberX to demonstrate the company’s industrial cybersecurity platform. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will demonstrate the CyberX ICS tool in simulated manufacturing environments with human-machine interfaces, programmable logic controllers and operational technology protocols, the company said Thursday. The effort seeks to create an NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide on how […] More