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  • OTA Report: Ransomware Linked to Twofold Increase in Cyber Attacks in 2017
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    OTA Report: Ransomware Linked to Twofold Increase in Cyber Attacks in 2017

    A new report by the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance says cyber attacks on businesses rose from 82,000 in 2016 to 159,700 in 2017 driven by the increase in ransomware-related incidents. OTA said Thursday its Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report found that ransomware attacks on companies reached 134,000 in 2017, a figure that reflects […] More

  • Report: SpaceX Targets Feb. 6 Maiden Falcon Heavy Launch
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    Report: SpaceX Targets Feb. 6 Maiden Falcon Heavy Launch

    SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said the company aims to launch a heavy-lift variant of its  Falcon rocket at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida by Feb. 6, Spaceflight Now reported Sunday. The report noted SpaceX set a three-hour window beginning at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time for the Falcon Heavy liftoff from launch pad 39A. Falcon Heavy will carry a used Tesla-built Roadster sports […] More

  • Kratos Aims to Meet Tactical, Target Drone Demand With New Oklahoma Facility
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    Kratos Aims to Meet Tactical, Target Drone Demand With New Oklahoma Facility

    A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions division has opened an 8,800-square-foot facility in Oklahoma City to house engineering, production and administrative operations as the company anticipates an increased demand for target and tactical unmanned aerial systems. The company said Friday the new facility unveiled by its unmanned systems division will accommodate the production of new tactical […] More

  • Textron’s AAI Subsidiary to Provide Unmanned ISR Support for USAF’s Afghanistan Operations
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    Textron’s AAI Subsidiary to Provide Unmanned ISR Support for USAF’s Afghanistan Operations

    Textron‘s AAI Corp. subsidiary has received a potential $15.7 million contract to support the U.S. Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan through the use of unmanned aircraft systems. AAI will also provide a non-developmental contractor-owned and contractor-operated UAS ISR platform as well as support the service branch’s force protection efforts under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • Decisive Analytics Wins MDA Cybersecurity Advisory, Assistance Contract
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    Decisive Analytics Wins MDA Cybersecurity Advisory, Assistance Contract

    Decisive Analytics has won a potential $59.5 million contract to advise and assist the Missile Defense Agency on cybersecurity compliance and risk management initiatives. The company will provide independent verification and validation analysis and reporting services for MDA’s Ballistic Missile Defense System as well as enterprise cybersecurity controls, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD added the company will […] More

  • Navy Picks 3 Small Businesses to Support Waterfront Surface Trainers Program
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    Navy Picks 3 Small Businesses to Support Waterfront Surface Trainers Program

    Sonalysts, Systems Engineering Associates and Transtecs have won spots on a potential $49.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to build classrooms, laboratory environments and training systems. The Defense Department said Friday all three small businesses will vie for Waterfront Surface Trainers Program support orders from the Navy and the Philippine government through a foreign military […] More

  • General Atomics Receives USAF MQ-9 Software Devt Order
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    General Atomics Receives USAF MQ-9 Software Devt Order

    A General Atomics business unit has received a potential three-year, $49.3 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to develop, field and sustain the software for MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will develop the MQ-9 software for the Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command, the Defense Department said Friday. The Air Force […] More

  • Lockheed to Implement Air Force GPS Control Segment Upgrade’s 3rd Phase
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    Lockheed to Implement Air Force GPS Control Segment Upgrade’s 3rd Phase

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $10.8 million modification under a U.S. Air Force contract to provide hardware necessary to implement the third phase of the service branch’s GPS control segment upgrades. The company will also engineer, install and test resources under phase 3 of the Combined Hardware and Software Commercial-Off-The Shelf Upgrade and Ground Antenna/Air Force Satellite Control […] More

  • Leidos to Offer IT Services Under Potential $250M GSA BPA; Angela Heise Comments
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    Leidos to Offer IT Services Under Potential $250M GSA BPA; Angela Heise Comments

    Leidos has secured a position under a potential five-year, $250 million blanket purchase agreement to provide information technology services as well as related operation and maintenance to an office within the General Services Administration. The company said Monday it will compete for task orders to deliver technology, IT design, database development, application development, life-cycle system and […] More

  • Engineering Services Network to Help Develop Navy’s Combat System Operational Sequencing Tech
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    Engineering Services Network to Help Develop Navy’s Combat System Operational Sequencing Tech

    Engineering Services Network has won a potential five-year, $39.5 million to help the U.S. Navy develop, modify and validate a combat systems operational sequencing system. The company said Friday it will deliver CSOSS for integration with shipboard sensors, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and weapon systems. ESN will also provide CSOSS analyses, technical and programmatic […] More

  • Thales Unveils New Bushmaster Armored Vehicle
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    Thales Unveils New Bushmaster Armored Vehicle

    Thales has introduced a modernized version of its Bushmaster armored vehicle platform designed to protect crew against land mines and improvised explosive devices. The company said Friday its Australian business designed and produced the Bushmaster MR6 platform in an effort to increase the vehicle’s capacity, protection and mobility in battlefield missions. Bushmaster vehicles feature a “deep V-Hull” design and […] More