Day: August 30, 2017

New technology trends bring with them excitement, but also complexity and confusion for agencies who already have enough on their plate to worry about. Bring your own application (BYOA), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and software-defined networking (SDN) may promise great things, but they are also exposing the network vulnerabilities of government organisations. This is a […]

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Four Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 fighter aircraft have left Romania marking the end of the UK’s five-month leadership of NATO’s enhanced air policing mission in the country. Since April, the Typhoons had spent alternate weeks on high-readiness standby to defend NATO’s airspace over the Black Sea, enhancing the Romanian Air Force’s existing air defence […]

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Two Typhoon Fighters from 3 (Fighter) Squadron Royal Air Force have arrived in Estonia to conduct a training mission. The jets were greeted upon their arrival by the Minster for Armed Forces Mark Lancaster. The Typhoon Jets arrived to conduct Air Land integration training with the British Army Battlegroup currently deployed in Estonia as part […]

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General Dynamics Information Technology has been awarded the Sustainment of Meteorology, Oceanographic and Geospatial Information and Services Programs, Systems and Information Systems contract from the US Navy. The contract is worth around $52 million over a five-year period. General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, will provide cybersecurity, IT software and systems […]

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