Defence to get supercomputer

The United States Defence Department is seeking a five-year, US$23 billion (A$24.5 billion) budget to protect IT infrastructure from outside intruders and develop offensive capabilities. Bloomberg news, which obtained a copy of the "cyber-expense" ...

Communications and information technology company Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) announced on Wednesday the award of a contract with a potential value of USD36m from the US Department of Defence to provide a new, Harris developed system to address ...

Pentagon has approved the Apple iPhone and the Apple iPad for use by the United States’ Department of Defense, granting them a security approval that will see them fight for the lucrative U.S. military contracts with BlackBerry and Samsung. The Defense ...

The US Defence Department has decided to stop buying EADS Lakota helicopters for the Army next year, according to the head of the European aerospaces US-based unit.

The waiver issued quietly by the then Deputy Secretary of States Thomas Nides on February 15 and posted on the State Department website a week later on February 22 would pave the way for some major defence equipment sales to Pakistan.

Reports yesterday morning said that the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has ended support for its employees’ BlackBerry devices. However, the DoD has averted a crisis for BlackBerry by saying that those reports were erroneous."The d

The Defense Department said it was deploying a missile defense shield to the territory of Guam in the Pacific to protect the US and its allies in the region in response to North Korea's increasingly hostile talk.

Most of the Defence Departments 800,000 civilian employees will be placed on unpaid leave for 11 days as the US military scrambles to comply with budget-cutting targets by the end of September, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Tuesday. Hagel, ...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage that left 13 dead. The Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 shooting ...