In der heutigen digitalen und vernetzten Welt werden nahezu überall unzählige Daten erzeugt und ausgetauscht. Weltweit sollen bis 2022 über 50 Milliarden Geräte und Sensoren über das Internet der Dinge verbunden sein. Die Komplexität des Gesamtsystems steigt kontinuierlich. Klassische Sicherheitslösungen stoßen an ihre Grenzen. Sie errichten möglichst hohe Schutzwälle um die Daten: Applikationen und Infrastrukturen sollen den Datenschutz sicherstellen. Dabei verschlüsselt die Sicherheitstechnik die Daten nicht sofort, wenn diese erzeugt werden, sondern erst nachgelagert.
Im Nordatlantik verlaufen wichtige Unterwasserkabel für den Datenverkehr. In einem Nato-Szenario könnte Russland versuchen, diese zu kappen. Eine neue Einheit des Bündnisses soll in dem riesigen Seegebiet für besseren Schutz sorgen.
The European Commission announced on 19 March how it will spend the remaining balance of EUR525 million (almost USD600 million) from its three-year pilot European Defence Fund (EDF) for co-financing defence capability and research projects with the member states.
The Łukasiewicz Research Network’s PIAP Institute, teamed with the CRW Telesystem-Mesko company, unveiled a demonstrator of the ASBOP-Perkun autonomous air defence system at the International Defence Industry Exhibition MSPO being held in Kielce, Poland, from 3–6 September.
A new study recommends the Pentagon embrace a new systems warfare strategy centred around seamless information sharing and a networked kill web
The new strategy would help the Department of Defense prepare for warfare in highly contested environments
South Korea will invest KRW88 billion (USD74 million) to develop a laser-based anti-aircraft weapon system, according to a 17 September statement by the country’s Defence Acquisition Programme Administration (DAPA).
Boeing will partner with an Australian defence research centre to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in support of military unmanned systems.
US President Donald Trump and his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, signed a Joint Declaration on Advancing Defense Cooperation between their two countries on the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York on 23 September.
The French Armed Forces Ministry (MoD) ordered 56 Nerva and Caméléon unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) from Nexter, associated with ECA, on 26 August 2019 for the army's Scorpion programme, the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) – the French armament procurement agency – announced on its website on 20 September. The agency said the light UGVs would contribute to the protection of dismounted soldiers in all kinds of environments, allowing them to counter potential threats at greater ranges. Equipped with different mission modules, the UGVs will allow engineers and infantry to gather intelligence regularly, the DGA added.
The US Air Force awarded Raytheon a contract for in-field experimentation with its high-power microwave system.
The system can be used to take down UAVs by disrupting or permanently damaging their electronics.
Dedrone, a San Francisco-based start-up company, has purchased the DroneDefender counter-small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) technology developed by Battelle, an Ohio-based research organisation.