Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber

The latest defense networks & cyber news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

Teledyne-FLIR Merger Creates Tactical Drone Powerhouse The combined company will offer a wide range of unmanned vehicles (mostly small ones) for air, land, sea, and underwater, said exec Roger Wells.

SOFWERX Boosts Small Biz At SOCOM; Faster Turnaround "If you can give me a white paper in three weeks, I'll pay for your white paper in three weeks, if you can give me a prototype in three months, I'll [pay for] your prototype in three months," said James Smith, SOCOM's acquisition chief.

DoD Publishes DevSecOps 2.0 Docs For Accelerating Apps After just three years, there are now 200 teams across DoD doing DevSecOps, which has saved, on average, a year and $12.5 million per app it's been used to launch, the Air Force's Chief Software Officer says. When you consider the number of apps, that's significant. And now there's a push to make DevSecOps resources available to JADC2.

Israeli Multi Domain War Gets First Test In Gaza TEL AVIV: For the first time, the Israeli Defense Force is using multi-domain operations in the strike against Hamas in Gaza. The air, infantry, armor, artillery and naval forces are finding, fixing and destroying targets in Gaza according to "who has the best shot," an Israeli defense source here says. Key to this is deployment…

Robot Black Hawk To Fly In Project Convergence 21: MOSA Key The wargame will also test new aircraft weapons — a 20 mm cannon and a multi-payload launcher— and a host of electronics enabled by a plug-and-play open architecture, MOSA.

Fleet Decentralization Focus For AF Budget Beyond 2023 How the Air Force embodies its 'agile combat employment' concept depends in part on the future fleet composition — with the F-22's fate a central question.

Hacks Drive Growing Calls For Mandatory Cyber Data Sharing The cyber executive order "properly emphasizes" information sharing. Sens. Peters and Portman float updating FISMA. FERC calls for mandatory pipeline cyber standards. Report says vulnerable Exchange Server "most likely culprit" at Colonial. FireEye details DarkSide's business ops.

Hyten: Joint Requirements For All Domain Out By June "One of the requirements is going to be that all data developed and produced by every weapon system we have has to be made accessible, period," Gen. John Hyten said today.

Biden Orders Fed Cybersecurity Boost; Targets Prevention, Reporting "It reflects a fundamental shift in our mindset — from incident response to prevention, from talking about security to doing security," a senior administration official says.

Air Guard Shows Off New 'Ghost Reaper' Chops At Northern Edge Ghost Reaper upgrades include Northrop Grumman's Freedom Pod, which houses the company's gateway radio system that can connect fourth- and fifth-generation fighters.

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