Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) has awarded Thales a contract to equip the Swedish Armed Forces with a next generation IP-based tactical communication infrastructure under the KomNod Programme. The Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF) is on its way to implement an IP-based communication infrastructure. One critical component in the overall infrastructure will be integrated voice and IP services in vehicle platforms.

Thales’s comprehensive solution offers a large number of communication services, such as radio gateway, telephony, alarms, routing, ETHERNET, intercom and management services. These services are based upon the next generation of the well-known, field proven SOTASIP system, a fully IP-based ruggedised multi-service vehicular platform with a small physical footprint.

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded IBM a contract to design and demonstrate a secure cloud computing infrastructure capable of supporting defense and intelligence networks. The ten-month project will introduce advanced cyber security and analytics technologies developed by IBM Research into the cloud architecture.

The project will push the technology boundaries of cloud computing with an infrastructure design that not only supports large-scale networks, but meets rigorous security standards and the government’s Information Assurance guidelines for all networks. The Air Force’s network manages the operations of nine major commands, nearly 100 bases, and 700,000 active military personnel around the world.

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A team led by Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract to help the Defense Information Systems Agency develop integrated network operations situational awareness (NetOps SA) across Department of Defense classified and unclassified cyber networks.

Under the $28 million award, Raytheon and its teammates will provide a cybersecurity solution that will, among other things, enable the Department of Defense to quickly detect network intrusions and assess the overall health of its network.

NetOps SA is an emerging field that provides integrated information assurance, enterprise management and content management across the Global Information Grid networks. The GIG is a major component of the DoD’s communication infrastructure, which provides connectivity to anyone, anywhere and is used for transporting voice, video and text.

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