IBM Regatta Sails Into Missile Defence
News IBM plans to announce on Monday that it has won a deal to supply the Defense Department with 66 high-end p690 "Regatta" Unix servers to be used as part of the country's ground-based missile defense program.
[August 19, 2002, 8:24]
Nato: Cyber-terrorism Danger Equal To Missile Attack
News Nato's cyber-defence chief has warned that computer-based terrorism poses the same threat to national security as a missile attack. He said: "It stands together with air-missile defence and the global fight against terrorism.
[March 10, 2008, 8:06]
ZDNet UK News' Mailroom
News Firstly the Senate passed a resolution declaring a missile defence system to be a national priority. Even if they had passed more funding for a missile defence system remember that such funding has never stopped since Reagan proposed it in the mid...
[March 26, 1999, 11:38]
Security Gaffe Gores Bull's Servers
News Those customers include France Telecom, UK bank Barclays, the British Royal Air Force, the Italian Army and Aerospatiale's missile division, among others. Which servers are installed in the missile branch of Aerospatiale;
[September 1, 2000, 7:39]
UK Intelligence Dismisses PS2 Missile Fears
News They are reportedly worried that that a supercomputer made from linking PS2s could be used to control a chemical missile. Some US military experts believe that several PS2s could be linked together to form a "supercomputer", which could control a...
[December 19, 2000, 15:07]
US Reveals Plans To Hit Back At Cyber Threats
News Elder said that, while he was satisfied with AFCYBER's covert operations capabilities and its demonstrable ability to remotely destroy missile defence systems, he wished to further develop its attack capabilities.
[April 2, 2008, 17:27]
We All Live In A Windows Submarine...
Talkback If your lot ever get in power, we'll have trouble in the event of a crisis when you try and send a submarine to provide air defences - Vanguard is a ballistic missile submarine. I imagine the majority of the country's defence work is done, like...
[October 25, 2004, 16:12]
Linux Gains Acceptance In Mission-critical Defence App
News Lockheed Martin will use RedHawk real-time Linux in hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation testing of strategic missile defence subsystems. In selecting Lockheed Martin for the THAAD programme, the defence contractor said it was because of "the...
[November 30, 2005, 15:50]
Bezos' Space Exploration Company Sets Up Base Camp
News Bezos has already assembled a team of veteran rocket scientists who have worked on various aerospace and missile defence projects. Blue Origin, the secretive space exploration company founded by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, on Thursday quietly...
[January 14, 2005, 15:10]
Sun's Joy Rips Windows 2000
News It's like the Star Wars missile defence system. Anyone who thought Joy might be humbled by being in Microsoft Corp.s back yard, in the shadow of the new Mary Gates Hall, was sadly mistaken. Joy was irrepressible during his hour-and-a-half...
[May 6, 1999, 7:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If this was Hollywood, it would be at this point that the director picks up the pace and starts to draw the themes together, culminating with the Vicar taking off in Concorde as the missile defence systems of the world crash and burn.
[August 22, 1998, 8:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News If this was Hollywood, it would be at this point that the director picks up the pace and starts to draw the themes together, culminating with the Vicar taking off in Concorde as the missile defence systems of the world crash and burn.
[August 22, 1998, 7:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But no wonder they have a friend in Dubya -- this is the man who has told the Chinese that yes, they can have more nuclear missiles if they don't kick up a fuss about the missile defence system: more nukes make a safer world, eh?
[September 18, 2001, 1:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As always, this is less than comforting: you and I and the rest of the country may well trust Mr Tony's cronies not to overstep the mark, but what happens twenty years down the line when the Monster Raving Blackshirts get in and decide that anyone...
[February 23, 2001, 16:21]
Indian President Calls For Open-source Defence Software
News Kalam, a former head of India's defence research and development organisation and architect of the guided missile programme, has been a supporter of open-source software. Software maintenance and software upgrade is an important issue for defence...
[July 8, 2004, 8:50]
India Shares Open-source Experience
News Kalam, a former head of India's defence research and development organisation and architect of its guided missile programme, has been a supporter of open-source software. The Indian government has set up a Web site to share its experiences in the...
[September 24, 2004, 15:00]
Echelon: Proof Of Its Existence
News SBIRS tracks satellites by infra-red telescope detecting the heat emitted by any nuclear, chemical or biological missile. Bill Blick, inspector general of intelligence and security for Australia, told the BBC that the Australian Defence Signals...
[June 29, 2000, 11:07]
US Report: Intel Supplies DOE
News Some of the applications will include earth satellites, space probes, missile defence and other advanced military systems. Department of Energy in a royalty-free deal for the development of custom-made, radiation-proof processors for space and...
[December 9, 1998, 10:42]
US Brings Down Its Spy Satellite
Blog According to a US DoD press release, at about 10.26pm EST yesterday the USS Lake Erie (CG-70), fired a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) hitting the satellite approximately 247 kilometres (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific...
[February 21, 2008, 12:53]
