SALLY COLE, SENIOR EDITOR

Weapon systems operated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) are more software-dependent and networked than ever before, which a new General Accounting Office (GAO) report says opens the door to mission-critical cyber vulnerabilities. 

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The top cybersecurity stories of 2018 covered the use of blockchain in embedded systems, supply chain security, RISC-V in FPGAs, quantum computing, and more.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the Department of the Navy Program Executive Office (PEO) for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) program office selected Serco Inc. for two production task orders worth approximately $46 million. 

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) completed the acquisition of cybersecurity solutions and services provider G2 Inc. The company - headquartered in Annapolis Junction, Maryland - will join HII’s Technical Solutions division.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has signed a $22.4 million blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), under which CSRA LLC, a managed affiliate of GDIT, will deliver commercial cloud services for the U.S. Navy to accelerate cloud adoption.

TE CONNECTIVITY

The world of high speed connectivity is constantly changing and evolving, which is why we made it easier for you to make smart decisions about which high-speed interconnect products you should use. Everything you need to design your application is at your fingertips in TE Connectivity’s (TE) High-Speed Products Developer Kit.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

In partnership with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) officials selected the Arizona State University (ASU) W.P. Carey School of Business, Active Innovations, LLC, Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), and Expression Networks, LLC to facilitate modernization of the open architecture, web-based Defense Medical Logistics – Enterprise Solution (DML–ES).

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Air Force officials placed an order with Viasat Inc. for 1,000 National Security Agency (NSA)-certified Mini Crypto devices under a Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) contract.

JOHN BRATTON MERCURY SYSTEMS

At a high level, the vast majority of contemporary compute processing hardware may be divided into two domains: powerful data center processors and smaller, embedded devices. Embedded devices have the support of their data center big brothers via a network connection, giving them to access big data applications.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The U.S. Army has awarded Harris Corp. a nearly $218 million follow-on contract to support wideband satellite operations centers and management sites that handle critical communications for troops around the world.

PARABRICKS & SKYSCALE

Modern genomics is characterized by rapid production of vast amounts of raw sequencing data (sequencing reads) using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and the equally massive computing requirements for conversion of that data into useful results.