agsandrew/Shutterstock.com By Frank Konkel August 1, 2014 The Central Intelligence Agency is now officially an Amazon Web Services cloud consumer. Less than 10 months after a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge ended a public battle between AWS and IBM for the CIA’s commercial cloud contract valued at up to $600 million, the AWS-built…
By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst May 14, 2014 — Updated 0056 GMT (0856 HKT) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seated left, listens to an official during his visit to an aerospace exhibition in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday, May 11. The exhibition revealed an advanced CIA spy drone, at front, captured in…
March 16, 2014 at 19:00 Posted by newsdesk The new HBS automatic security screening system checks the baggage of all exiting passengers By Dan Arkin All the suitcases belonging to exiting passengers in the Ben Gurion Airport are already checked by the airport’s new security system. The initial results have been positive: Few incidents requiring…
By W.J. Hennigan Published: March 14, 2014 Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Nam Nguyen directs an EA-18 Growler from Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 141 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington during flight operations in September, 2012. Brian H. Abel/U.S. Navy As the Pentagon…
SJ. Michael Cole February 12, 2014 Editor’s Note: Please also see our previous defense lists including the Top Five Naval Battles of All Time, Top Five Fighter Aircraft of All Time, Five Worst Fighter Aircraft of All Time and the Five Best Submarines of All Time. Predicting which five weapons will have the greatest impact…
Feb. 17, 2014 – 12:25PM | By BURAK EGE BEKDIL A Russian-built Proton-M rocket with the Turksat-4A Turkish communications satellite blasts off at the Russian-leased Kazakhstan Baikonur cosmodrome. (Agence France-Presse) ANKARA — Turkey has launched the Japanese-built Turksat 4A, a communications satellite expected to provide decades of service for government and commercial users. Turksat 4A,…
The Enigma machine, right, once used by the crews of German U-boats is shown in a British museum. // Alex Dorgan Ross/AP file photo Top of Form ARCHIVES Bottom of Form By Jean Gordon Kocienda Cisco February 3, 2014 World War II may seem like an unlikely place to go looking for the origins…
Chief of Naval Operations discusses his to-do list, touches on Barrio Logan debate By Jeanette Steele4:19 p.m.Feb. 1, 2014 Flag of the Chief of Naval Operations (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The chief of naval operations, Adm. JonathanGreenert, spoke about the issues topping his agenda for 2014 in an interview this weekend with U-T San Diego. He…
BlueDBM tackles storage network gremlins with FPGAs By Jack Clark, 31st January 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parking Lot, off Memorial Drive, Facing West (Photo credit: MIT-Libraries) Distributed file systems may be cheap to run, but their performance can be atrocious when the network becomes saturated, and some boffins are hoping to change this…
Curioso/Shutterstock.com By Joseph Marks September 10, 2013 The Justice Department could be the next federal agency to switch a large share of its websites over to the open source Drupal content management system, contracting documents show. The agency posted a sole-source solicitation on Tuesday asking Drupal supplier Acquia to help it transfer up to its…
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