defense

HP forks out $105m to Canadian government

News The case involved an HP Canada contract to provide information technology products and services to Canada's Department of National Defense (DND), tasks for which HP sometimes enlists subcontractors, spokeswoman Monica Sarkar said.

17 May 2004, 15:35

Internet fathers honoured with presidential medal

News Cerf and Kahn developed the TCP, or transmission control protocol, in 1973 for the US military while working for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, who developed the TCP/IP protocols used to...

7 November 2005, 8:59

Harsh sentences loom for spammers

News Congress made it a felony, but it's not the kind of misconduct that causes what we typically consider as harm to victims," said Jack King, a representative for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

15 April 2004, 9:50

US Army looks into remote repair for field vehicles

News That transmission technique is more sophisticated than that used by radio-frequency identification tags, which the US Department of Defense currently embeds in its supplies to monitor inventory, said Ann Breidenbach, director of IBM's Sensor and...

12 August 2005, 9:18

Report warns of RFID risks

News Among the list of planned or actual uses: the Department of Defense for tracking shipments; the Department of Homeland Security for immigration and baggage tracking; the State Department for electronic passports; the Department of Veterans Affairs...

31 May 2005, 10:15

Comcast sends out less spam

News In Comcast's defense, the bulk of the spam is the result of viruses that infect unknowing PCs and turn them into "zombie" spam engines. Cable giant Comcast on Thursday said the volume of spam originating from its network has dropped 35 percent...

30 June 2004, 8:25

Gun-toting robot still in training

News The Defense Department wants a third of all battle vehicles -- a definition that encompasses ground vehicles, flying drones and helicopters, to be unmanned by 2010. The US Army has delayed deployment of a robot equipped with a machine gun, a slight...

23 June 2005, 9:48

Cambridge event buzzes with invention

News The saucer also has military applications to help reconnaissance missions, with the Ministry of Defence and the US Department of Defense both showing interest in the tech. Search and rescue flying saucers, sniffer bees and mobile maps are just some...

Tags: identify, maps, travel, businesses

10 September 2007, 10:54

News.blog: Porn pop-ups may mean jail for teacher

News If there is an appeal and the defense is allowed to show the entire results of the forensic examination in front of experienced computer people, including a computer literate judge and prosecutor, Julie Amero will walk out of the court room as a...

26 January 2007, 10:26

News.blog: Here is my jetpack

News With further development, though, Thunderbolt hopes that its jetpacks will ultimately be used for a "host of defense, commercial, and personal purposes, including support of military missions, disaster relief efforts, border patrol assignments...

Tags: flight, fuel, metres, richard branson

25 January 2008, 9:10

Brits sent down for writing viruses

News Stegerwalt was sentenced to 21 months in jail and fined $12,000 by the US Department of Defense, which said it suffered damages from the worm. Two UK men have received jail terms for conspiring to create a computer worm for an international hacking...

10 October 2005, 10:00

News.blog: Physical sciences will change society

News Nordan showed off a ping pong ball covered in a nano-nickel material engineered by Integran Defense Systems. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Society-impacting technological change will increasingly come from physical sciences, such as chemistry, physics and...

Tags: engineering, technologies, scale, material

16 October 2007, 8:41

Net attacks are coming from Chinese Internet addresses

News But Bob Ayers, former director of the Computer Emergency Response Team for the US Department of Defense and MD of consulting firm Ayers & Associates, was sceptical that the attacks were coming from China.

1 July 2005, 10:33

E-voting source code posted online

News In the same month, the Department of Defense backed away from plans to conduct a trial that could have let the 6 million Americans abroad cast their vote online. VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, published the source code...

7 April 2004, 9:55

Microscopic robot moves like a caterpillar

News The Department of Defense, which has commissioned projects on autonomous helicopters and cars, has set a goal of making one-third of all combat vehicles robot-driven by 2010. Researchers at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire have invented a robot...

16 September 2005, 9:15