Australia looks towards space with force restructure, investment and training
Australia is looking to improve its presence in space with a focus on communications and creating a dedicated segment of its defence forces committed to the domain.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has acquired SecureInfo Corporation, a leading provider of products and solutions for securing cyberspace, for $17.5 million. The announcement was made in a company statement on 16 November 2011.
According to the statement, SecureInfo is a ‘pure-play cyber security company specializing in assisting defense, intelligence, civilian government and commercial customers to identify, understand, document, manage, mitigate and protect against cyber security risks while reducing information security costs and achieving compliance with applicable regulations, standards and guidance’. The company offers ‘Strategic Advisory, Operational Cyber Security and Cyber Security Risk Management services and is a recognized leader in the rapidly evolving fields of Cloud Security, Continuous Monitoring and Cyber Security Training. Customers include the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and large commercial customers, including market leading cloud computing service providers’.
Kratos said that SecureInfo RMS will be integrated into its NeuralStar family of Situational Awareness, Cyber Security and Network Operations Management products, expanding the compliance profile within NeuralStar's 360° common operational picture of mission-critical operations.
Australia is looking to improve its presence in space with a focus on communications and creating a dedicated segment of its defence forces committed to the domain.
The Portuguese company’s naval communications system is in service across more than a dozen countries. It has turned to its home nation for support in developing a new vehicle based C2 system.
The Vision4ce Deep Embedded Feature Tracking (DEFT) technology software is designed to process video and images by blending traditional computer vision with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to present actionable information from complex environments.
Persistent Systems has been cleared by National Security Agency (NSA) to transmit sensitive data on commercial networks. The devices are added to the NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) component list which also includes other companies’ products providing the same security.
The release of the UK’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR) has been long promised as mid-year. It is possible it could be as early as 2 June although the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) continues to play its cards close to its chest.
Intelsat outlines how its multi-orbit SATCOM architecture is enhancing connectivity and resilience for special operations forces operating in degraded and contested environments.