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September 21, 2021 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR, Security

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  • DARPA Wants to Find Botnets Before They Attack

    September 12, 2018 | International, C4ISR

    DARPA Wants to Find Botnets Before They Attack

    By Jack Corrigan The defense agency awarded a contract to develop a tool that scours the internet for dormant online armies. The military's research branch is investing in systems that automatically locate and dismantle botnets before hackers use them to cripple websites, companies or even entire countries. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Aug. 30 awarded a $1.2 million contract to cybersecurity firm Packet Forensics to develop novel ways to locate and identify these hidden online armies. The award comes as part of the agency's Harnessing Autonomy for Countering Cyber-adversary Systems program, a DARPA spokesperson told Nextgov. To build botnets, hackers infect internet-connected devices with malware that allows them to execute orders from a remote server. Because the virus sits dormant most of the time, the owners of infected devices rarely know their computer, smartphone or toaster has been compromised. Through the HACCS program, DARPA aims to build a system that can automatically pinpoint botnet-infected devices and disable their malware without their owners ever knowing. Launched in 2017, the program is investing in three main technologies: systems that uncover and fingerprint botnets across the internet, tools that upload software to infected devices through known security gaps, and software that disables botnet malware once it's uploaded. Packet Forensics' technology falls under that first category, the DARPA spokesperson said. Eventually DARPA plans to integrate each of those technologies into a single system that can spot, raid and neutralize botnet-infected devices without any human involvement. Because the tool would only target botnet malware, people could continue using the devices just as they had before, the agency said in the program announcement. During phase one of the three-part project, Packet Forensics will build a technology capable of scanning some five percent of global IP addresses and detecting botnets with 80 percent accuracy. By the end of the program, DARPA anticipates the system to analyze 80 percent of the global internet and correctly spot botnets 95 percent of the time. The effort is scheduled to last to four years, with the first phase running 16 months. Later phases include additional funding. https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2018/09/darpa-wants-find-botnets-they-attack/151182/

  • Les industriels de la Défense s’organisent pour produire plus vite

    July 9, 2022 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land

    Les industriels de la Défense s’organisent pour produire plus vite

    L'Etat, par la voix du Président de la République, ou celle du ministre des Armées, intimant aux acteurs industriels de la Défense d'accélérer leurs cadences de production, ceux-ci s'organisent pour apporter une réponse adéquate. Un exemple de ces délais jugés trop long, la production d'un radar militaire standard, une fois la commande passée, les pièces des sous-traitants réceptionnées, dure entre 24 et 36 mois, hors pénurie de matières. Au sein de la filière, donneurs d'ordre et sous-traitants planchent en toute discrétion pour proposer au ministre des Armées, Sébastien Lecornu, des leviers d'action applicables à court terme, en s'inspirant des méthodes de l'aéronautique civile. Une réflexion a lieu pour avoir des doubles sources sur certains composants, la norme dans le civil mais pas dans le militaire, et pour passer d'une logique de production à la commande, comme c'est le cas aujourd'hui, à une stratégie de flux. C'est une stratégie qui a aussi ses limites, le stockage de pièces ayant un coût significatif. Ainsi, une partie de la réponse se trouve du côté de l'industrie, mais l'autre est au niveau du ministère des Armées et de la Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA). Les clients eux-mêmes vont sans doute devoir accepter de revoir les règles actuelles. Les tests pouvant durer 6 mois sur certains équipements, si les délais étaient revus à la baisse, il faudrait accepter un niveau de dysfonctionnements supérieur à la normale.

  • Remington Arms offers manufacturing space to produce medical supplies needed to fight Covid-19

    March 26, 2020 | International, Land

    Remington Arms offers manufacturing space to produce medical supplies needed to fight Covid-19

    Remington Arms has offered to donate manufacturing space for hospital supplies in New York. CEO of the gun manufacturer, Ken D'Arcy, wrote a letter Monday, March 23, to Governor Andrew Cuomo and President Donald Trump offering "approximately one million square feet of unused and available manufacturing space" at the Ilion plant, the Ithaca Journal reported. Cuomo issued an executive order for all nonessential workers to remain home, and the company announced Friday it would shut down in compliance until April 30. D'Arcy said the company would be honored to help produce ventilators, surgical masks, hospital beds or any other products to aid the efforts to combat the coronavirus. Cuomo said Tuesday that the state has 7,000 ventilators and needs 30,000 for an anticipated surge of patients. Remington Arms has joined several other companies to offer to help fight back against the coronavirus pandemic. Several distilleries have started producing hand sanitizer to help fill the shortage. New York has more than 30,000 confirmed cases and 285 deaths. The nation-high figures are driven mostly by New York City. Herkimer County Administrator James Wallace said Remington also requested permission to continue producing firearms for military and police use. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/03/26/remington-arms-offers-manufacturing-space-for-medical-supplies-needed-to-fight-covid-19

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