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Galois seeks submissions to two benchmark challenges that work to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s efforts to prevent software reverse engineering. Submissions should describe existing theories or new approaches to identify security vulnerabilities in program obfuscation technology, Galois said Monday. One challenge focuses on order-revealing encryption while the other targets point-function obfuscation, with both security […] More

Taiwan’s state-owned aerospace firm has begun to upgrade four Lockheed Martin-built F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft for the country’s air force, Defense News reported Tuesday. Mike Yeo writes Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. said it expects to complete modernization work on 144 F-16s within six years at its Taichung facility. According to the 2011 foreign military sales request […] More

DCS Corp. has won a one-year, $10.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of technical services to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s air vehicle test and evaluation division. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract covers up to 166,848 man-hours of test engineering, test support, ground and flight test conduct, test […] More

Crown Point Systems has subcontracted Nutanix to provide enclave commercial off-the-shelf technology for a U.S. Navy deployable program of record that fields an integrated command-and-control system. Nutanix said Tuesday it will supply a hyperconverged computing platform to the Deployable Joint Command and Control program as part of a potential five-year, $28.8 million contract the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command awarded to […] More

A communications satellite that Boeing built for ABS has begun to provide services to customers in Africa, Middle East, Russia and Asia. Boeing said Monday ABS-2A is the second all-electric propulsion satellite that the company delivered to ABS following the launch of ABS-3A in 2015. “We have completed our three-satellite build investment in launching three satellites in three consecutive years, […] More