http://www.defence-industry.net/ DINET defence news en-us Mon, 15 May 2006 12:18:34 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly DINET Governance & Auditing Community News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.defence-industry.net/images/logo.jpg http://www.defence-industry.net/ http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=45 As multi-national firms and major offshore outsourcing companies develop experience with global work, their globally distributed teams face the challenge of collaborating intensely without the common interaction advantages associated with collocated work. This chapter analyzes the sources of intense collaboration. It then introduces strategies that organizations have developed to reduce the intensity of collaboration (sequentializing work, using mediating artifacts, modularity), or to enable intense teamwork (real time contact, boundary spanners). Strategy properties and deployment opportunities and constraints are indicated in order to equip managers and researchers with a framework for handling or analyzing globally distributed teamwork. Click here to read the article Mon, 15 May 2006 12:18:34 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=44 The innovative potential of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program for the Dutch knowledge economy is immense. In addition, the JSF project generates 23.000 years of employment in the development and production phases of the program. High-quality employment with little chance of leakage to other countries, since The Netherlands are a partner country in the JSF program. Click here to read the whole article Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:41:03 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=43 Did you learn a lot about SAP, customising, implementation and keeping it running within your organisation? Are you conscious about the many risks and therefore still wondering where to start with you’re auditing activities? In this article we will give you a practical guide line to set up and start a cost-effective audit program. Click here to read the article Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:15:33 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=42 The following Protection Profiles (PP) have been evaluated and certified in accordance with the provisions of the NIAP Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme and the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA). The PPs on this list have been evaluated at accredited and licensed/approved evaluation facilities in the U.S. or in one of the other countries participating in the CCRA for conformance to the Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluation (ISO Standard 15408). Common Criteria certificates issued for PPs apply only to the specific versions and releases of those PPs and are valid only in conjunction with complete certification/validation reports. Click here to know more about Protection Profiles... Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:06:57 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=41 This guide provides basic information on the preservation, examination, and analysis of digital evidence on PDAs, relevant to law enforcement, incident response, and other types of investigations. Click here to access the guide... Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:02:51 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=40 The Cyber Security Research and Development Act requires NIST to develop, and revise as necessary, a checklist setting forth settings and option selections that minimize the security risks associated with each computer hardware or software system that, or is likely to become widely used within the Federal Government Click here to see the checklists Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:57:55 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39 SANS is the most trusted and by far the largest source for information security training and certification in the world. Website all about to defend systems and networks against the most dangerous threats. Click here to visit the website Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:51:20 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38 "Rich Requirement Specifications: the use of Planguage to clarify requirements" by Tom Gilb. 17 November 2003 Abstract: I believe that most requirements specifications in practice are very poor in clarity, and in content. I believe that in addition to tackling the clarity problem by a variety of rich specification devices, we need to make a requirement specification ‘work harder’ to satisfy a large number of needs by adding ‘background’ to the requirement. The needs I am referring to include: prioritisation, risk management, change management, presentation, justification, testability, integration, quality control, and other purposes. To do this I have, over the years developed a requirement specification language, as a subset of my Planning Language (Planguage). This is has been developed by practical need in international industry over decades, and supplemented with some recent ideas. The more detailed version of the Requirements Language is documented in my book manuscript Competitive Engineering, which is a handbook defining concepts rigorously (www.gilb.com). This paper will give an overview of the conceptual basis and some detail as a sample. By ‘rich’ I mean substantially more detail for each requirement than is usual. By ‘background’ I mean information related to the requirement that is not the requirement itself. Click here to read the articel online... Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:25:20 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=37 London, United Kingdom, 5 January, 2005 Lockheed Martin selects IFS Applications for F-35 JSF ALIS Supply Chain Management IFS Applications has been selected by Lockheed Martin for local Supply Chain Management on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme Autonomic Logistic Information System (ALIS). Within the F-35 aircraft system design, ALIS is the information backbone that provides core functionality for in-service operations. As part of its ongoing objective to provide a ‘lowest cost’ Supply Chain Management (SCM) service, the Lockheed Martin LM project team has decided to extend the IFS footprint in ALIS to cover both Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) and SCM with one package - IFS Applications. IFS Applications is now deeply involved in ALIS having also previously been selected for the management of support equipment in a separate selection exercise. “This recent additional selection on the JSF program, reinforces IFS Defences’s position as a strategic supplier to Lockheed Martin, who have also chosen IFS Applications for the UK MOD JAMES project” commented Simon Dowler, CEO of IFS Defence Ltd. About IFS Defence Ltd IFS Defence Ltd provides armed forces, government bodies and Defence contractors worldwide, a powerful combination of domain experience and component-based business applications. These applications provide global defence solutions combining best practice, domain expertise, market-proven Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software, and structured implementation services. For all whole-life equipment support requirements there is now one global organisation which can help influence the design of equipment for supportability, plan for the support of that equipment through life and deliver component-based business applications which support evolution towards the ‘extended enterprise’ and component-based Product Life-Cycle Support (PLCS). For additional information, contact: Wayne Starr, Group Marketing Manager, IFS Defence Ltd Telephone: +44 (0) 1895 208000 E-mail: wayne.starr@ifsdefence.com Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:22:48 GMT http://www.defence-industry.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=36 During the last decade of the 20th century, civil-military co-operation has become a characteristic of humanitarian operations. In spite of positive results, there are many instances to show that good working relationships between civilian and military actors do not come about naturally (Bollen: 2002). The complexity of civil-military relationships may account for the strenuous collaboration between civilian and military actors. Click here to read the article Thu, 26 May 2005 18:49:04 GMT