Category: CyberWarfare / ExoWarfare

PARIS – The chief of the European Defense Agency said Europe must wean itself from U.S. high-tech weaponry, proposing that arms deals with Washington could decrease in an effort to achieve greater “strategic autonomy” for the continent. Jorge Domecq said the development would be a natural outcome of emerging efforts by the European Union to…

The new European Main Battle Tank from KNDS is the body of a German Leopard 2, mixed with the turret of a French Leclerc. (Jeff Martin/Staff)   PARIS ― France’s Nexter and Germany’s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann pitched a cross between a Leopard 2 chassis and a Leclerc turret at the Eurosatory trade show in Paris on…

Members of the French national police elite research intervention group hold their shields as they take part in an exhibition with the group’s new armored truck Titus in Paris on May 4, 2016. (Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images)   VERSAILLES, France ― Nexter, a French government-owned weapons manufacturer, based in Roanne, Loire, has unveiled a concept…

WASHINGTON ― What can fly for 12 hours straight, launches from a catapult on the deck of a Coast Guard cutter and has helped apprehend more than 11 tons of contraband? Answer: small unmanned aircraft systems, and the U.S. Coast Guard has asked for a lot more of them. The Coast Guard began the hunt…

“the multi-decade progression toward the adoption and continual use of open source software (OSS) in developing modern technological products, solutions and services is permanent and irreversible. The majority of the world’s economic systems, stock exchanges, the Internet, supercomputers and mobile devices run the open source Linux operating system and its usage and adoption continue to…

Obviously, this is a signature-based solution (comparing against known patterns) – less than ideal.   This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Law enforcement teams can now determine if someone is carrying a weapon or explosive – all without the need for a physical search – and rapidly identify a person of interest, thanks…

Oh, GitHub, we knew ye … pretty well, actually, over the past decade. At least programmers did. To us you’ve been comically unavoidable, from your “Octocat” mascot to the fake, fully furnished Oval Office at your San Francisco headquarters, complete with a special Octocat-emblazoned rug that proclaimed “United Meritocracy of GitHub.” Of course, that rug came up…

WASHINGTON ― Leonardo DRS has won a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract worth as much as $841.3 million to produce the U.S. Army mission commands next-generation combat computing system, the company announced June 7. Known as the Mounted Family of Computer Systems II (MFoCS), the systems will be upgraded to support the Army’s joint battle command–platform,…

According to DHS and other US government documents obtained by Motherboard, the DHS is continuing to investigate how insecure commercial aircraft are to cyber attacks, with one research lab saying hacking a plane may lead to a “catastrophic disaster.” US government researchers believe it is only a matter of time before a cybersecurity breach on…

The Defense Department is now exploring the idea of a cloud-based storage system to defend against cyberthreats that seek to enter networks through internet browsing vulnerabilities.   How do you protect millions of users surfing the web on the most targeted network in the world? For the Department of Defense, that question keeps many planners…

Soldiers of Germany’s Cyber and Information Space Command attend the group’s inauguration in Bonn, Germany, in April 2017   Its pacifist tradition poses a dilemma for those charged with protecting the country from hackers. BONN, Germany—It was a cyberattack that showed just how vulnerable Germany’s digital infrastructure truly is. In the summer of 2017, a…

The Marine Corps Systems Command’s Cyber Advisory Team completed its first emergency cyber acquisition as part of a new process designed to more quickly respond to the cyber warfighting needs of the force.The move is in line with broader Department of Defense measures to improve technology acquisition. (U.S. Marine Corps illustration by Jennifer Sevier)  …

In the center of this Pantsir-S1 weapon systems is an EHF phased array tracking radar. Two twin-barrel 2A38M automatic anti-aircraft guns are mounted above and behind it, and 12 ready-to-launch missile containers are mounted on the sides. EW is the enabler that makes this whole system work together. (Vitaly V. Kuzmin)   Electronic warfare is…

Dark clouds hang over the Reichstag, the German parliament building in Berlin. A group of lawmakers are arguing that U.S. vendors were rightfully excluded from a drone program. (Markus Schreiber/AP)   COLOGNE, Germany ― In an attempt to rally fellow Social Democrats behind a key vote on Israel-supplied drones, a group of lawmakers this week…

This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Modern navigation, communications, and intelligence collection and electronic warfare systems integrated in modern platforms, rely on the uninterrupted availability of satellite-based navigation and timing for their operation. Despite this dependency, most platforms do not use any counter-measure systems to protect those essential assets. Remaining exposed, even low-power…