DefenceTalkThe Defense Department’s chief information officer today unveiled the Pentagon’s strategy for addressing the ever-increasing demand for wireless spectrum to achieve national security goals. “All of our joint functions, our ability to fight, our movement and maneuver, fires, command and control, intelligence, protection and sustainment are accomplished with systems that depend on spectrum,” Teri Takai […]https://www.defencetalk.com/electromagnetic-spectrum-strategy-paves-way-for-new-technologies-58837/

DefenceTalkNorthrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for purchase and sustainment of its embedded global positioning/inertial navigation systems (EGI). Under an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a potential value of up to $200 million, Northrop Grumman’s suite of fiber-optic gyro-based navigation systems are available for the U.S. Air […]https://www.defencetalk.com/northrop-awarded-us-military-contract-for-navigation-systems-58780/

DefenceTalkThe US administration on Wednesday launched a cybersecurity plan which aims to use voluntary collaboration from the private sector to protect critical infrastructure from computer hackers. The initiative stems from an executive order issued last year by President Barack Obama after repeated failures in Congress of a cybersecurity law. The so-called cybersecurity framework allows the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-launches-voluntary-cybersecurity-plan-50699/

DefenceTalkLockheed Martin has demonstrated a 30-kilowatt electric fiber laser, the highest power ever documented while retaining beam quality and electrical efficiency. The internally funded research and development program culminated in this demonstration, which was achieved by combining many fiber lasers into a single, near-perfect quality beam of light—all while using approximately 50 percent less electricity […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-martin-demonstrates-weapons-grade-high-power-fiber-laser-50189/

DefenceTalkHackers attacked Israeli computers including one used by the defence ministry department dealing with civilians in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli data protection expert said on Monday. “At the beginning of this month a number of mails were sent to a number of companies in Israel, including security organizations,” Aviv Raff, chief technology officer […]https://www.defencetalk.com/israeli-defense-computer-hit-in-cyber-attack-data-expert-50182/

DefenceTalkLockheed Martin recently demonstrated and validated that its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) can be launched from any MK 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) by only modifying the software to existing shipboard equipment. During the company-funded test, LRASM and Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS), MK 41 VLS and Mk-114 booster hardware with modified software […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-martin-tests-lrasm-mk-41-vertical-launch-system-interface-50136/

DefenceTalkLockheed Martin recently completed a milestone test on the U.S. Navy’s evolutionary Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 2 system. This test further validated the system’s ability to protect the Navy’s fleet from evolving anti-ship missile threats. Under SEWIP Block 2, Lockheed Martin will upgrade the AN/SLQ-32(V)2 system found on all U.S. aircraft carriers, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-completes-critical-milestone-to-upgrade-us-navys-electronic-warfare-defenses-50132/

DefenceTalkThe US National Security Agency has developed a secret technology to spy on computers via radio signals, gathering information even when the devices are offline, a report said Wednesday. The New York Times reported that the NSA has implanted software on 100,000 computers around the world to be able to conduct surveillance, and which gives […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nsa-taps-offline-computers-with-secret-bug-report-50127/

DefenceTalkRaytheon has received a resume work order from the U.S. Navy to commence development of the new Air and Missile Defense Radar. The order followed the official Government Accountability Office update of its database to reflect the status of the AMDR contract award protest as withdrawn. On October 10, 2013, Raytheon was awarded a $385,742,176 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-resumes-work-on-us-navy-air-and-missile-defense-radar-50102/

DefenceTalkBoeing has applied new anti-jamming technology to an existing military satellite for the first time, expanding the military’s potential to access secure communications more affordably. In the test conducted Dec. 15, Boeing successfully sent a government-developed, protected signal through the sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-6) satellite. Engineers confirmed that the signal met all targets for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/boeing-transmits-protected-government-signal-through-military-satellite-50100/