Northrop Grumman has established a new office in Grand Forks, North Dakota ahead of the arrival of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at Grand Forks AFB. Northrop already has a facility in New Town, ND where it employs 135 people. The company makes wiring harnesses for the Global Hawk and other unmanned aerial [...]
A measure passed by the House of Representatives Tuesday would allocate money to states who have implemented a system for collecting DNA from persons arrested for violent crimes. A provision that would have penalized states who do not meet minimum requirements for DNA collection practices was removed before final passage, after some lawmakers raised concerns.
Today, BreakingPoint Systems Inc., is launching Storm CTM (Cyber Tomography Machine), a network equipment testing product which simulates full-blown attacks and applications and reports back on the overall security and resiliency of how a system’s infrastructure handled the stress.
The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice is implementing predictive analytics to help identify at-risk youth in an attempt to reduce recidivism in state’s penal system.
FOSE is open today and tomorrow at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. The conference is focused on cybersecurity issues facing the public sector and what it means for protection against threats, cloud computing and new open government directives. CivSource is there covering all of the action and had a chance to [...]
Earlier this month, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman activated the Phase II of their Statewide Radio Network, connecting more than one-third of the state’s first responders. Gov. Heineman and several top emergency planning personnel indicated they were on schedule to have the whole state wired by the end of 2010.
Attensity, a semantic analysis company, recently announced its Attensity Analyze for VOC product. The product aggregates and analyzes text based customer communications including emails, web forums, surveys, CRM notes, social media and other sources into a native dashboard offering sentiments and trends or, “voice of the customer.” The product is the flagship in a suite [...]
Yesterday, at the RSA Conference, Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton announced the formulation of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a non-profit organization designed to build trust in the exchange of of online identity credentials in both the public and private sectors. The Open Identity Exchange grew out of a public-private [...]
Last week Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley made another strategic move to position his state as the ‘epicenter’ of cyber security in the United States. After all, Maryland is already home to the National Security Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and multiple private sector contractors involved with cyber security efforts. One of those [...]
A formal agreement was announced last week by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue between his administration and CSX Transportation to share information, resources and strategies to better protect the state’s rail infrastructure. The public-private partnership is one of seven such agreements, meant to develop better rail security policies.
