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MEADS International, a joint venture between MBDA‘s German and Italian units and Lockheed Martin, has proposed a customized partnership with Turkey to develop the country’s first long-range air and missile defense system, Defense News reported Wednesday. Burak Ege Bekdil writes MEADS representatives have visited Turkey in previous months for preliminary talks and anticipate formal contract negotiations […] More
Austal‘s U.S. subsidiary will host a christening ceremony Saturday for the U.S. Navy‘s future Independence-variant littoral combat ship at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The USS Tulsa, designated LCS 16, is the second Navy ship that honors the same-named city in Oklahoma and built to support the service branch’s near-shore environment and open-ocean operations. Tulsa is designed to eliminate asymmetric “anti-access” […] More
A team comprised of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Comtech Telecommunications has integrated and tested a new terminal platform with an engineering model of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency payload. The Lockheed-Northrop-Comtech team developed the Low Cost Terminal in a push to address a demand for terminals that can offer mobile access to the AEHF military satellite communications network’s […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton and Elastic have formed a partnership with the intent to help public and private sector clients adopt open cloud-based technologies to analyze, manage and search large volumes of data. Elastic said Thursday the partnership aims to accelerate real-time analytics, logging, search and security programs as well as assist enterprise customers in efforts to increase their access to […] More
Charles River Analytics has joined a SiCore Technologies-led team that aims to help the U.S. Air Force detect and eliminate malware in avionics as part of a program to strengthen cybersecurity of the service branch’s platforms and weapons systems. Charles River said Tuesday it will create new technologies designed to prevent attacks on airborne ISR missions as a member on the SiCore […] More
CenturyLink has received a potential five-year, $875,000 task order for the provision of managed security services to the Federal Communications Commission‘s information technology center in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The company said Thursday it will provide Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services that offer connectivity to the internet and external networks as well as help customer agencies comply with the Office of Management and […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s Canadian subsidiary and RANK Software have partnered to create and offer cybersecurity platforms to Canadian and international defense programs. Both companies developed a co-branded security analytics offering as part of efforts to help address a shortage of trained cybersecurity individuals as well as meet a demand for systems designed to protect networks from advanced persistent cyber threats, Lockheed said Tuesday. The partnership demonstrated the offering at […] More
Veterans First Initiative and Black Box have received approval from the Office of Small Business Programs to participate in a Defense Department program designed to provide assistance to small disadvantaged businesses. Black Box said Monday that it will look to help Veterans First Initiative compete for prime contract and subcontract awards under individual and project-based agreements […] More
The University of Nebraska’s National Strategic Research Institute has received a contract from the U.S. Strategic Command to perform cyber defense research alongside researchers from Iowa State University and cybersecurity industry consultants. NSRI said Wednesday the research team will use multiple data sources to discover threats and potential vulnerabilities that adversaries might exploit to shut down infrastructure […] More
Intel looks to invest more than $7 billion to help complete the development of a new semiconductor factory in Arizona that will work to produce microprocessors for data centers and connected devices. The company said Wednesday it expects the Fab 42 factory to open an estimated 10,000 jobs in Arizona in the long term, including 3,000 positions […] More
Raytheon and Utilidata have formed a strategic alliance with the goal to help power utilities defend, detect and respond to cyber threats as well as bolster power grid security and incident response capacity. The partnership seeks to combine Raytheon’s proactive cyber threat hunting, automation and managed security services with Utilidata’s knowledge on cyber attack detection and response using real-time data from […] More
Palo Alto Networks has unveiled new purpose-built hardware and virtual firewall appliances that work to offer threat prevention and SSL decryption functions in efforts to prevent cyber attacks across cloud, endpoint and network environments. The company said Tuesday the new appliances support the release of the updated Next-Generation Security Platform with more than 70 new security features. Palo Alto […] More
