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US government awards Lucent $75m Iraq contract
News The US Department of Defense has awarded Lucent Technologies a $75m contract to repair or upgrade communications networks used by Iraqi private businesses and the nation's interim government agencies, Lucent said on Thursday.
[March 26, 2004, 12:00]
Report reveals extent of open source in government
News Mitre, a not-for-profit engineering and IT organisation that works with the US federal government, has recommended that the US Department of Defense take steps to encourage open-source software in the department's infrastructure.
[October 30, 2002, 13:55]
US Dept of Defense lists top 20 security controls
News Called Twenty Most Important Controls and Metrics for Effective Cyber Defense and Continuous FISMA Compliance, the list was published on Monday by a conglomerate of US government agencies, including the NSA, US-Cert, various US Department of...
[February 23, 2009, 14:20]
US official: We are under cyberattack all the time
News US defence secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday that the US is "under cyberattack virtually all the time, every day", and that the Defense Department plans to more than quadruple the number of cyber experts it employs to ward off such attacks.
[April 22, 2009, 9:51]
Failed on Earth? Try orbit
Blog Comment Department of Defense is the longest continuous user of the Iridium network - as a customer. Department of Defense constitutes roughly 20% of Iridium’s revenues. We provide Iridium’s valuable voice and data services to vertical markets such as...
[February 3, 2009, 8:35]
Iridium sets up shop in Iraq
News Iridium already has a significant presence in Iraq as a result of a deal with the US Department of Defense initiated in 2000. While Iridium has experienced great success with its Department of Defense usage within the region, we are extremely...
[July 22, 2003, 9:17]
Next Net takes giant leap
News Moonv6, the network used in the testing, is an IPv6 backbone built by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (IOL), the North American IPv6 Task Force, Internet2, the US Department of Defense and more than 30 networking...
[March 23, 2004, 7:20]
NASA hacker to speak at security show
News He is charged with gaining unauthorised access to 97 US government computers, including machines belonging to NASA and the US Department of Defense. Also appearing on the panel will be security expert Bob Ayers, who had a 29-year career with the US...
[April 13, 2006, 18:05]
Pentagon moves to protect military networks
News The US Department of Defense runs some 15,000 electronic networks and runs some 7 million computers and other information technology devices, Whitman said. Asked if the command would be capable of offensive operations as well as protecting the...
[June 24, 2009, 9:33]
Americans reject antiterrorism database
News Admiral John Poindexter, who ran the US Department of Defense's Information Awareness Office, which managed the TIA project, resigned last month. Originally, only the Senate version of the annual Defense Department appropriations bill included the...
[September 26, 2003, 9:15]
RFID spending set to soar
News However, Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense have mandated that their suppliers must start to incorporate RFID, with these two huge organisations set to have a significant impact on spurring RFID spending, IDC said.
[January 7, 2004, 15:15]
US Government failing on cybersecurity
News Defense, also received failing marks for 2005. Defense and State had hovered above passing — at D and D+, respectively in 2004. The US Department of Homeland Security earned failing marks in an annual computer security report card released on...
[March 17, 2006, 9:40]
US names cybersecurity head
News Previously he worked on the Computer Emergency Response Team at the Department of Defense, which defends the US military's sprawling computer networks, and founded the information-security company Riptech.
[September 16, 2003, 9:05]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News The report comes as the US Department of Defense prepares to launch the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), a system that will let absentee military voters in 50 counties in seven states place their votes; the...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
Pentagon forks out $100m for cyberattack cleanup
News Neither he nor Army Brigadier General John Davis, deputy commander for network operations, would say how much of the estimated $100m (£70m) was spent cleaning up from viruses compared with outside attacks and inadvertent security problems due to...
[April 8, 2009, 9:41]
IBM's low-powered PC quest
News DARPA, which is the US Defense Department's central research and development organization, will give IBM about $2m to help fund IBM's Low Power Center research lab as part of a new joint government and industry program called Power-Aware Computing...
[August 7, 2002, 10:25]
Has the warez battle been won?
News Early last week -- with the cooperation of the US Justice Department and international law-enforcement agencies -- the US Customs Service, the FBI and the US Department of Defense's Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) led simultaneous...
[December 20, 2001, 11:11]
Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attacks
News Titan Rain first came to public attention this summer, when the Washington Post reported that Web sites in China were being used to target computer networks in the Defense Department and other US agencies.
[November 23, 2005, 16:05]
US govt to get early warning of Net attacks
News Gewis is based in part on work conducted by the National Communications System, a Defense Department agency that became part of the Homeland Security Department. The other four were the Defense Department's National Communications System, the...
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
First security scare hits next-generation Internet
News Aside from Verio, the only other major IPv6 launch in North America will come from the US Department of Defense. The Defense Department has made some noise about IPv6," said Dave Passmore, research director for the Burton Group.
[July 5, 2004, 8:55]
