Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber

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

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UAE, reeling from Houthi attacks, seeking Israeli advanced radar: Sources The UAE is seeking the advanced version of the Green Pine radar, part of the Israeli Arrow system that is designed to intercept ballistic missiles, in what could mark the first major arms agreement between the two nations.

Army selects four companies for lightweight power solutions The Army wants lightweight power solutions that can sustain dismounted soldiers for days at a time.

Strike first, strike fast [Sponsored] Critical JADC2 enabling technologies for mission success.

New Pentagon report censors details on weapons programs' performance, flaws "By caving to pressure inside the Pentagon and hiding unclassified information behind a pseudo classification, the current leaders of DOT&E are undermining the effectiveness of their own agency," said Dan Grazier, a fellow with the Project on Government Oversight.

Pentagon's cybersecurity tests aren't realistic, tough enough: Report "Cybersecurity must be built into system design, and the human defender should be included early on in cyber defense engineering and programmatic priorities for both system usability and training," according to the Pentagon's chief tester.

Hypersonics and cyber tools: Pentagon's innovation hub highlights FY21 tech transitions The Defense Innovation Unit published 26 solicitations in fiscal 2021, awarded 72 prototype other transaction contracts (an increase of 31% from FY20) and received 1,116 commercial proposals.

How lessons learned during Afghan withdrawal relate directly to JADC2 The Afghanistan withdrawal and the consolidation of all in-country military networks to one base at Hamid Karzai International Airport illustrated unique challenges with direct applicability to Joint All Domain Command and Control and future Project Convergences.

Booz Allen Hamilton nabs $6.8M Thunderdome prototype contract Over the next six months, the Defense Information Systems Agency plans to produce the first working prototype of its zero-trust security and network architecture program that's scalable across the Defense Department.

Internet Operations Management Is Well Suited To Military Networks

[Sponsored] IOM will enable Joint Force Headquarters-DoD Information Network to gain real-time visibility over all defense networks.

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