The Air Force is seeking industry input on a Cyber Control System that would provide automatic alerts to Air Force Cyber (AFCYBER) operators if an adversary nation launches an attack on the US military information infrastructure. The system also would initiate, within “a matter of milliseconds,” an “emergency network triage,” following “pre-defined rules of engagement.” The Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass., last week issued a request for information to seek industry approaches for this new cyber effort and plans to host an industry day on Jan. 29. The service has “identified” $7 million in Fiscal 2008 dollars and $20 million in 2009 toward an “incremental CCS implementation.”
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.
