Source: Lewis Page, The Register
US weapons megacorp Raytheon is chuffed to announce that it and allied firms have landed a $28m deal from the Pentagon to provide an early-warning system for defence against cyber attacks on military networks.
The programme in question is referred to by the Defence Information Systems Agency (DISA) as “Network Operations Situational Awareness” or NetOps SA. NetOps SA is just one of the netwar systems the agency intends to procure in coming years, under the general slogan “Arming the Cyber Warrior”. (Powerpoint Presentation here (http://www.disa.mil/conferences/forecast_industry/slides/balko.ppt).)