Latest Electronic warfare Stories

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CounterTack, the industry's first and only provider of in-progress cyber attack intelligence and response solutions, today announced three new solutions available on Event Horizon®, the world's first commercially available security platform utilizing virtual machine introspection (VMI), to help enterprise and government organizations identify, disrupt and respond to advanced threats. CounterTack will preview these new solutions, along...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cyber security is an ever changing and growing concern. Nearly twice as much cyber security funding proposed in the 2013 budget underscores the need for improved computer network defenses. Inadequate security configurations are blamed for 80 percent of the United States Air Force network vulnerabilities. Now Wake Forest University researchers are fighting the continual evolution of viruses, worms and malware with evolution...

PARIS, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As a country that is used to being dominant in the more traditional sense, the U.S. has been working to come to grips with a new sense of supremacy as a result of cyber threats, says a report released today by DiploNews. Even with a team of people responding to a threat, all it takes is one skilled person to continue to execute a cyber attack unaffected and even unnoticed. Thus, the possibilities for supremacy do not favor those with the most...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of Old Crows (AOC) is off to a powerful start to 2012 with last week's 42nd Collaborative Electronic Warfare Symposium, where nearly 400 participants viewed collaborative Electronic Warfare (EW) in a joint-force perspective. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111228/DC28031LOGO) Conference Chairman; Mike Herrera; EW Analyst, Joint Electronic Attack Compatibility Office NAWC WD Pt Mugu; said, "As the...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) are teaming to compete for a U.S. Navy contract that will upgrade the fleet's capability to electronically attack anti-ship missiles. Through its Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 upgrade, the Navy seeks to cost effectively enhance the electronic attack (EA) capability of its AN/SLQ-32 V(3) and V(4) electronic warfare (EW) systems to counter threat...

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $10 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command to develop a pulsed power system that will enable projectiles to reach great distances without the use of an explosive charge or rocket motor. The contract for the preliminary design of a Pulse Forming Network (PFN) is part of a larger effort by the U.S. Navy to develop a multimission weapon system for use on naval warships to...

At a London conference this week that brought together military experts on cyber security from around the world, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Rhett Hernandez spoke of plans to create a “world-class cyber warrior force.” Its purpose, he stated, would be to create a task force of some 10,000 “cyber warriors” to challenge the “growing, evolving and sophisticated” threats to cyber security. Reporters from the BBC current events program Newsnight were invited to report on the...

OBERAMMERGAU, Germany and ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of Old Crows (AOC) Information Operations Institute will host the Information Operations Europe 2012 Conference at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany, February 22nd to the 23rd. This conference will discuss the rise of extremism and the role of Information Operations. During the "Arab Spring," disaffected people across the Arab Region and Northern Africa united to...

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded an $80.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy in support of a Foreign Military Sale of the AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar to the Royal Australian Navy. ALFS is the primary undersea warfare sensor for the U.S. Navy's MH-60R multimission helicopter. The contract represents the first international sale of Raytheon's advanced anti-submarine warfare sensor. ALFS provides...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- When was the last time you were in a conference room with a Hollywood actress, the CISO of In-Q-Tel, two product managers from DARPA, an expert in money laundering, a world-class hacker, a spokesman for George Clooney's Satellite Sentinel Project, an expert on open source warfare, and a former CIA station...