Category Archives: Air Force

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Air Force, Cyberdefense and Information Assurance, Defense Department, DISA

In C4ISR Journal – Cyber Defense Overhaul

U.S. defense officials are insisting that by reorganizing their cybersecurity strategy to give new powers to the director of the National Security Agency, they are not attempting a power grab. The military will continue to focus on protecting its own networks, they said, rather than expanding the military’s role to protecting civilian-run electrical and transportation networks.

Still, the changes the Pentagon has announced for the next 16 months will be significant. The heightened role of the NSA will be reflected in a fourth star. From now on, the NSA director will be either a four-star admiral or general, and this person will lead a new U.S. Cyber Command, dubbed CyberCom, wrote Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a June 23 memo to military leaders.

Read the rest at:  Cyber-overhaul – C4ISRJournal.com – Military Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance.

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Air Force, BAE Systems

BAE brought in to deal with “vanishing vendors” for F-15 radar warning system

BAE Systems Information and Electronics of Totowa, New Jersey was awarded a $5,963,688 contract which will provide engineering services to resolve obsolete part and vanishing vendor issues with the LRU-3c low band receiver and digital processor, part of the of the AN/ALR-56C radar warning system of the F-15 fighter, and significantly improve the system availability of the LRU-3C. The AN/ALR-56C is aboard all of the Air Force’s F-15 aircraft, as well as those of the Royal Saudi Air Force.

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