Navy

  • The Navy\'s Fleet Cyber Command said a lack of real-time visibility into their computer networks is a problem. A new operations center opening this week at Ft. Meade will let technicians see cyber attacks as they are happening.

    December 14, 2010
  • The Navy has delayed awarding a contract to build 20 Littoral Combat ships.

    December 14, 2010
  • The Washington Post reports that a Navy intelligence officer is accused of leaking classified documents.

    December 07, 2010
  • A hacker broke into the U.S. Navy Memorial website and left a message for the administrator.

    November 30, 2010
  • Host Derrick T. Dortch talks to Navy Captain Mark Steiner, Chaplain of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, about his work providing for the spiritual welfare of men and women in the military. November 26, 2010 (Encore presentation December 3, 2010)

    November 26, 2010
  • The Navy has a new chief information officer. Terry Halvorsen received the promotion today from Secretary Ray Mabus.

    November 22, 2010
  • The Department of Defense announced today the appointment of Navy Capt. Paul S. Hammer, as the director of the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) in Arlington, Va.

    November 19, 2010
  • Wired reports that the Navy wants businesses to produce an app that stimulates sailors\' minds.

    November 12, 2010
  • Troubled weapons programs will fall victim to the budgetary ax as the service tries to spend its money more wisely.

    November 10, 2010
  • Yemen has been a trouble spot for more than a decade and explosives have always been the problem and they\'ve always been relatively small. It was in 1998 that the U.S.S. Cole, a Navy Destroyer was attack while in Yemen. 17 sailors were killed and 39 were injured. A small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, leaving a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship\'s port side. The toner cartridges with the explosive PETN in them that were discovered aboard planes in the UK and Dubai last week contained only a small amount, but had they gone off, they would\'ve inflicted maximum damage.

    November 04, 2010
  • Rival teams from Lockheed Martin and Austal USA have been waiting all year to see which of their designs would be chosen for the U.S. Navy\'s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) competition. Now, if the Navy gets permission from the lame-duck Congress, the winner could be: both.

    November 04, 2010
  • The service has reached an important first milestone in its effort to achieve a key energy conservation goal with last week\'s test of the first experimental ship to operate using algae-based bio-diesel fuel.

    October 28, 2010
  • Across the government, chief information officers are being asked to modernize technology systems more quickly and in smaller, more modular programs -- and for less money. But what happens when your network is on a moving ship?

    October 25, 2010
  • Agencies and industry are trading employees with specific technology skills, but in the end both need to increase the overall workforce. One expert calls for the professionalization of cybersecurity workers. Agencies are finding new ways to recruit these in-demand employees.

    October 22, 2010