- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenseLatest Top-Performing Companies results confirm A&D companies run well, above all else Are some A&D companies becoming too good at business? Many are acting like well-oiled corporations, doing all the right things for their owners and ex...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from StrategyPage.com
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageFisher & Hardy, Jane's
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressWashington DC (XNA) Apr 23, 2015 Private space firm SpaceX said Saturday an engine throttle valve problem was to blame for the failure of its second attempt to land the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean....
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2015 An international team of scientists have put forward a blueprint for a purely space-based system to solve the growing problem of space debris. The proposal, published in Acta Astronautica, combines a super...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Asian Defence NewsAmerican education system is injurious to the brain. It teaches you to find the nearest McDonald's or KFC, not the countries which US is invading or interfering in. The British empire lasted more than the American on just due to this
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World Defence NewsThe Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Thales announce their partnership for the service and delivery of two SMART-L Early Warning Capability (EWC) Ground Based systems (GB) for the Royal Netherlands Airforce, as well as service o...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World Defence NewsMiG-31 jets will be stationed at airfields located in the Arctic Region in order to protect our ports and transport routes, Interfax reports with reference to the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Defense Forces Major General Ki...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressSanaa, Yemen (AFP) Apr 24, 2015 Saudi-led warplanes launched more deadly strikes in Yemen Thursday despite a demand by Iran-backed rebels for a complete halt to the raids as a condition for UN-sponsored peace talks. The Saudi-led coaliti...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenceTalk News and Videos
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressHuntsville AL (SPX) Apr 23, 2015 The successful March 11 test of a solid rocket motor for NASA's new deep space exploration rocket, the Space Launch System, lasted only two minutes, but its success was the culmination of months of intens...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageJames Holmes, RCDefense
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Ottawa Citizen » Defence Watch
Defence Watch recently had an item about the upcoming paying off ceremony for HMCS Iroquois. This post, with information provided by the Royal Canadian Navy, provides more details about that and the other paying off ceremonies planned fo... - Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressKuala Lumpur (AFP) April 23, 2015 Malaysia has called for China to cooperate with Southeast Asia in speeding up talks on a set of rules in the disputed South China Sea, where Beijing's island-building activities have sparked internationa...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressVienna (AFP) April 23, 2015 Iran and major powers held a second day of talks Thursday seeking to finalise a historic deal that would make any attempt by Tehran to make a nuclear weapon extremely difficult and easily detectable. Meeting i...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Ministry of Defence - Activity on GOV.UKInformation on Tregantle firing times, available in 2 file formats so that it is accessible to everyone.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageRyan Faith, VICE News
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Asian Defence NewsLaugh the next time you here this is for their " peaceful" rise As per Mao's dictum the POLITICAL department of PRC navy has prepared this. Political indoctrination and people contact is more important in Mao's scheme of things than mili...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenceTalk News and Videos
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressPatuxent River, Md. (UPI) Apr 23, 2015 An unmanned aircraft system has for the first time been refueled in flight by Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy. The UAS was the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration, or UCAS-D, aircraft,...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageKevin Lilley, Military Times
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IHS Jane's 360: Global Defence News and Defence HeadlinesAn apparent company-produced model of a landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ship may offer an indication of the configuration and capabilities of such a ship that is expected to be produced for the People's Liberation Army N...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World Defence NewsThales Australia has strengthened its support to the Australian Defence Force with the opening of a new facility in Townsville, Queensland. Major General Paul McLachlan, Head of Land Systems at the Defence Materiel Organisation, official...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from StrategyPage.com
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenseStock buybacks and dividends are soaking up industry’s free cash flow Shareholders in aerospace and defense are reaping benefits more often associated with blue chip companies. read more
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressPeshawar, Pakistan (AFP) April 23, 2015 Pakistan's military Thursday claimed to have killed at least 47 Taliban fighters in two days of airstrikes in the restive northwest as part of anti-insurgent offensives that began last year. The la...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenseTPC rankings are the result of a composite scoring of four equally weighted performance categories that place significant emphasis on operating excellence. read more
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenceTalk News and Videos
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Asian Defence NewsAs a result of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, 18 F-2Bs belonging to the 21st Fighter Squadron at Matsushima Air Base were damaged or destroyed.Of these 18, 12 were deemed beyond repair and will be scrapped
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Your Defense NewsNorthrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has announced its support for the Defense Department's (DOD) new cyber strategy, released today by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter during a speech at Stanford University. The new strategy is desig...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageOriana Pawlyk, Military Times
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IHS Jane's 360: Global Security - News and Defence HeadlinesColombian army operations against the FARC persist, despite continuing peace talks between the government and the guerrillas, and the service believes it could play a similar role in future against other criminal networks. Brigadier Gene...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenseHouse panel recommends adding dollars for F-35B JSF and F/A-18F Super Hornet House to fund some Navy unfunded priorities, Virginia lawmaker keeps an eye on Uclass, more support for taking ATC out of FAA and aerospace companies collaborat...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenceTalk News and Videos
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageTyler Rogoway, Foxtrot Alpha
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenseByron Callan Director Capital Alpha Partners Tom Captain Vice Chairman, Global A&D Sector Leader Deloitte Antoine Gelain Managing Director Paragon European Partners Steven Grundman Principal, Grundman Advis...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressDulles VA (SPX) Apr 23, 2015 Orbital ATK has announced it delivered the SKY MEXICO-1 (SKYM-1) satellite to the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana for its DIRECTV customer. The SKYM-1 satellite, due to launch in late May, will provide d...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IHS Jane's 360: Global Security - News and Defence HeadlinesIn a statement released on 22 April, French Minister of Interior Bernard Cazeneuve reported that police had foiled a suspected terrorist attack on at least one church in Paris after detaining a suspect in the capital on 19 April. The sus...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Asian Defence News
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from DefenseIf not for a growing tailwind benefit of how Lockheed accounts for its pension liabilities, as well as its FX hedging and other asset-management accounting moves, its 2014 financial results and TPC scores would look worse. read more
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IHS Jane's 360: Global Security - News and Defence HeadlinesANALYSIS Lebanon's militant Shia group, Hizbullah, has constructed an airstrip in the northern Bekaa Valley for its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), an analysis of satellite images suggests. Located in a remote and sparsely populated are...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Asian Defence News
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressMoscow, Russia (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2015 The launch of the first piloted spacecraft from the Russian Vostochy space complex will be postponed from 2018 to 2020, Kommersant newspaper reported Friday, citing space industry and governmental so...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Asian Defence News
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RealClearDefense - HomepageSydney Freedberg, Breaking Defense
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World Defence NewsAccording to Interfax-Ukraine, the Ukroboronprom state concern has signed agreements on supply of tactical radio communications systems and single-engine helicopters to Ukraine with French companies. The Ukrainian company signed contract...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from StrategyPage.com
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World Defence NewsLast week, Raytheon Company announced it has been awarded a contract worth over $2.0 billion to deliver the combat-proven Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to an undisclosed international customer. Yesterday April 23, Raytheon confi...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from SpaceWar ExpressWoodand Hills, Calif. (UPI) Apr 23, 2015 Northrop Grumman reports it is providing its LN-200 Inertial Measurement Unit to Raytheon through 2018 for use on optical targeting systems. An earlier initial purchase order received for the syst...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 Radicalization Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Just months after five students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve left Canada to join the Islamic State in Syria, a young couple, El Mahdi...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 African security Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Somali-based al-Shabaab is increasing its guerrilla-style attacks in East Africa, but terrorism experts say the attacks are the results of the gr...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 Nuclear weapons Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments David Albright is the founder and president of the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Institute for Science and International Security ( ISIS ), an...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 Nuclear weapons Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The Union of Concerned Scientists ( UCS ) has called on President Barack Obama to use the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) Review Conferen...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 Nuclear power Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments France’s position as a leader in the nuclear energy industry is being undermined by the country’s pending flagship nuclear reactor, whic...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 Human smuggling Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Researchers say that using a new visa-selling economic model could help governments eradicate human smuggling. The policy, designed by economists ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 Europe Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments French politician Marine Le Pen carried her father’s right-wing fringe political party to first place in the country’s latest elections for Eur...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 Infrastructure protection Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The U.S. Congress successfully hears the “supermajority” consensus on the reality and causes of climate change, according to scientists ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/23/15 Earthquakes Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Earthquake activity has sharply increased since 2009 in the central and eastern United States. The increase has been linked to industrial operations t...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosNetworking supergiant Cisco has become the latest big firm to release a transparency report, detailing its approach to dealing with requests for information from governments and police forces.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosSure, we'd love to wipe away those rude/racy/rebellious posts, but how erasable is erasable? Two phrases come to mind: "screen capture" and "digital archive!"
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: military_force_protection Arlington, VA, April 23 – CACI International Inc ( NYSE:CACI ) has announced it was awarded a $34 million contract to provide deployed and on-site analytic support to the Joint Improvi...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Santa Clara, CA, April 23 – Cyphort , a provider of Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions, has announced the integration of its payload analysis capabilities with the Homepage position:&n...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Washington – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25 th anniversary launch on April 24, 1990. “Hubble has completely tra...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security Washington, D.C., April 23 – Airlines for America (A4A), an industry trade organization of U.S. airlines, has testified before the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommi...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Robert Bonner Editor’s Note: On April 21, the first day of the 9th Border Security Expo, held in Phoenix, AZ, Robert C. Bonner, as a member of the Expo’s advisory board, was...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Register - SecuritySlap on the wrist for his Thunder-balls-up General David Petraeus – the former head of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and briefly the head of the CIA – has been sentenced to two years' probation and fined $100,000 after admitting leak...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Register - SecurityRocky BTC only good for laundering cash, not saving and spending RSA 2015 The falling price of Bitcoin is forcing ransomware masterminds to convert the crypto-currency as soon as they can. Rather than holding on to their ill-gotten BTC...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ThreatpostDennis Fisher, Mike Mimoso and Brian Donohue discuss the news of the week from the RSA Conference.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedChris Roberts, in hot water after tweeting about a hack into a plane's WiFi system, describes another theoretical attack, this one against an Internet-connected appliance.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ThreatpostEnterprises can use existing networking tools to put up internal barriers against hackers in order to frustrate them on to other targets.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Geneva, April 23 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on the global health community to urgently address significant gaps in the prevention, diagnosis, and t...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecurityYou wait ages for a computer security bill, then two come along at once The US House of Representatives has passed not one but two computer security bills that allow companies and Uncle Sam to share information about citizens, cyber-atta...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from THN : The Hacker NewsIf you’re a bug hunter and love playing with codes than you could grab as much as US$15,000 from Microsoft for finding out vulnerabilities in its latest Project Spartan browser. Yes, $15,000! It seems like Redmond don’t want to take a ch...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ThreatpostSAN FRANCISCO–For years, Apple has enjoyed a pretty good reputation among users for the security of its products. That halo has been enhanced by the addition of new security features such as Gatekeeper and XProtect to OS X recently...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecurityYou can change a password. You can change a PIN. Good luck changing your skin RSA 2015 Malware can snaffle fingerprints used to unlock Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphones thanks to a security blunder, researchers claim.…
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ThreatpostResearchers stumbled upon a vulnerability recently that can force any iPhone or iPad into a perpetual reboot loop.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Cybersecurity on Huffington Post
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedA specially crafted SSL certificate can be used to crash iOS apps, and even the entire operating system.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosTwo German publishers have lost a court case that sought to brand popular ad blocker AdBlock Plus as illegal and anti-competitive.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecuritySneaky state-sponsored snoopery can be picked up by counting HTTP packets Security researchers have developed a method for detecting NSA Quantum Insert-style hacks.…
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecurityFall-out from massive February data theft continues A fresh wave of scammers appear to be targeting TalkTalk customers, following a massive data theft earlier this year, The Register has learned.…
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosWe've done it again! For the fifth year running, we've won an award at the Security Blogger Awards which takes place at RSA.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosFrom "joined up security" to the suggestion that Google proclaimed the end of malware on Android, find out what's happening at RSA 2015!
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Homeland Security News Wire4/22/15 Nuclear risks Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments With the negotiation between the P5+1(the United States, European Union, Britain, France, Russia, and China) and Iran resuming yesterday (Wednesday)...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecurityA rich roast of fail could brew up a lot of trouble for members Costa Coffee is warning customers it may have suffered a security breach and, alongside resetting the passwords for all of its Coffee Club accounts, is going to implement a ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from THN : The Hacker NewsAfter rolling out WhatsApp’s Free Voice Calling feature for Android users late last month, the widely popular messaging service has started to roll out the feature to iOS users. Now iOS users can enjoy making free voice calls through Wha...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosA Colorado man administered what we assume to be the highly unusual remedy of lead slugs in an alley behind his homeopathy store.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Naked Security - SophosThe proposed overhaul of the infamous Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would focus penalties on malicious computer crime.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from THN : The Hacker NewsGoogle has just launched its long-rumored wireless cellular service that comes up to give a tough competition for AT&T and Verizon communication. Yes! A wireless Service for Cell Phone users. The web Internet giant, Google is now bec...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityMobile internet users are 1.3 times more likely to get struck by lightning than infected by mobile malware, research by security firm Damballa finds
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecurityNew threats evolved in 2014, mainly aimed at the US RSA 2015 Banking botnets persist as a threat despite recent high-profile takedowns which only achieve a temporary calming effect, according to a new study from Dell SecureWorks.…
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityIntel Security Group senior vice-president Chris Young challenges the information security industry to change its approach
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - Security48,000 PCs at TEPCO still run Microsoft's unloved child The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy complex, has been told to migrate 48,000 internet-connected PCs off Windows XP so...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityThe new school of cyber defence calls for security that is agile and intelligent, according to Art Gilliland of HP
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecurityYou'll need a machine with the right IOMMU tech RSA 2015 On Wednesday, at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Microsoft veep Scott Charney outlined a new security mechanism in Windows 10 called Device Guard. We've taken a closer look.…
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecurityYour PoS is a P.O.S., chortle hackers, uneasily RSA 2015 Fraud fighters David Byrne and Charles Henderson say one of the world's largest Point of Sale (PoS) systems vendors has been slapping the same default passwords – 166816 – on its...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Register - SecurityPartnerships provide new analytics, threat detection, cloud, mobe capabilities HP has revealed a bunch of security analytics tools and services as part of an infosec portfolio launch.…
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from intelNews.orgAmerican intelligence officials have cautioned against the popular narrative that Yemen’s Shiite rebels are proxies or Iran, noting that Tehran actually counseled them against conquering Yemeni capital Sana’a last year.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Washington, D.C., April 22 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that a group of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects supported by the Department have safely capture...
