MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The top security stories of last year dealt with hardware security, communications, and software-defined networking. 2017 was the year where cybersecurity was no longer an afterthought, but part of the design process.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Army researchers are teaming with scientist in Chernihiv, Ukraine to initiate a global science and technology research program to understand and ultimately combat disinformation attacks in cyberspace.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Members of the Defense Media Activity (DMA) and Defense Digital Service (DDS) joined forces to hack the U.S. Air Force in a live-hacking event in New York City as a kickoff to Hack the Air Force 2.0.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

A team led by Raytheon BBN Technologies -- under the auspices of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Cryogenic Computing Complexity program -- is working to develop prototype cryogenic memory arrays and a scalable control architecture that is aimed at use in a new generation of energy-efficient superconducting supercomputers.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The General Services Administration (GSA) -- the independent agency that manages and supports the basic functioning of U.S. federal agencies -- recently announced its long-awaited awards on the Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) for IT services and service-based solutions.

GRAMMATECH

GrammaTech, Inc., a leading developer of commercial embedded software assurance tools and advanced cybersecurity solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a $9 million, three-year contract from the Office of Naval Research, a division of the United States Department of the Navy, to perform research and development into cutting-edge techniques for hardening and modernizing legacy software.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Riverside Research has been awarded the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) Advisory and Assistance Services, Geospatial and Signatures Intelligence contract.