Cybercrime getting the attention of DHS

Cybercrime is emerging as the leading IT threat, public and private-sector security experts said.

BAE Systems nabs Navy high frequency transmitter deal

BAE Systems has won a $35.4 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to provide high frequency transmitters for a phased array antenna system.

Intel agency buys more imagery, seeks new ideas

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded a $7.3 million order to EarthData International LLC for imagery and data models describing the Earth's surface.

Online Extra: Expanded interview with Loren Thompson

Expanded interview with Loren Thompson.

Robust market sparks satellite acquisitions

The U.S. military's huge demand for satellite services is driving a wave of acquisitions among large providers trying to capitalize on the growing federal market.

Raytheon gets DARPA funding for future combat systems

The challenge: develop a technology that provides high data rates and low latency, while also protecting against jamming and enemy detection.

Lockheed, General Dynamics to build high-tech ships

Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics won options to complete designs of the high-tech, networked ships intended to operate in coastal areas.

Navy taps Raytheon for ship defense open architecture

Raytheon Co.'s Integrated Defense Systems unit has won a $38.7 million contract from the Navy to provide a ship self-defense system with an open architecture-computing environment.

Pressure kept on security clearance backlog

Congressman asks Pentagon, OPM to immediately begin processing 2004 security clearance applications and asked that Defense Security Service investigators use their Case Control Management System.

Contractors caught under a microscope

Outsourcing faces greater scrutiny in the wake of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

GAO: Limited progress made on defense EA

The Defense Department has made extremely limited progress in modernizing its business systems and implementing an enterprise architecture, GAO reported.

Northrop Grumman gets $220M defense contract

Northrop Grumman Corp. won a Defense Department contract to continue providing on-site analytical support to the Joint Staff and Combatant Commands.

Army looks for single AKO portal contract

The Army plans to award a single contract by the end of summer to maintain its Army Knowledge Online portal.

CACI says interrogators were screened properly

CACI International Inc. said in a statement released Sunday that it carefully screened all prospective interrogators before sending them to Iraq and followed the military's requirements for interrogators and "other allied specialties."

L-3 to engineer Army's artillery support software

Task order covers software engineering and support services to the Army's Software Engineering Center and Fire Support Software Engineering groups.

AT&T touts continuity of operations plans

The government should tap the expertise of private industry when it develops continuity of operations plans, an AT&T Corp. executive told Congress last month.

Contractors caught up in Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal

Two of the nation's top IT defense companies are entangled in the Iraqi prisoner-abuse scandal that has sparked international outrage and caused a diplomatic crisis for the United States.

Contractors caught up in Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal

Two of the nation's top IT defense companies are entangled in the Iraqi prisoner-abuse scandal that has sparked international outrage and caused a diplomatic crisis for the United States.

DOD wants security tech

The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology is seeking proposals for innovative homeland security tools that are ready to go to market.

DARPA funds networking study

A team of researchers developing optical routing technologies that could accelerate significantly the next-generation Internet received a $6.3 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.