It takes control of the facility's SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition system) and through it, is able to destroy the facility.
The defense acquisition system thus diminishes economies of scale and isolates military products from the mainstream of industrial innovation, largely precluding cross-fertilization between the defense and commercial sectors.
The problem that forward thinkers on cyber security like Kendall, Alexander, and former deputy defense secretary Bill Lynn face is that the existing information grid and acquisition system have spawned constituencies with deep roots in the political system.
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That is uniquely true of the U.S. Department of Defense, where it is typical to find some of the most senior positions in the weapons acquisition system populated by people who have little understanding of new technologies or business processes.
There was a time when my employer was contracted to do the programming for a phase of the US FBI's "Low Speed Fingerprint Imaging and Acquisition" system.
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Driven by government-wide budget cuts, this reduction is expected to primarily affect acquisition planning, IT system development and program management contracts.
Does an acquisition automatically bring an integrated system to the market?
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Conducting these demonstration programs will allow the Navy to make an informed, low-risk decision about the acquisition of an operational UCAS system later in the decade.
They are ultimately about the n ew enterprise operating system, extending resource acquisition and performance enhancement in new ways.
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Vern Clark, the service invented a smaller, cheaper warship called the Littoral Combat Ship that broke the mold on naval design and acquisition while potentially offering a warfighting system better suited to emerging threats than the legacy vessels already in the fleet.
In short, the experience will evolve to become a content acquisition and discovery tool and a software system that could tie together multiple devices in a wireless home.
The scheme began in March 2010 when Wells Fargo was retained to provide financing for a potential acquisition of ATC Technology Corporation by GENCO Distribution System.
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For those of us with Pentagon and defense acquisition experience, the programmatic fight begins long before a system or its operators hit the battlefield.
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Hewlett-Packard has finally figured out a viable option for WebOS, the mobile phone operating system software it bought in the ill-fated acquisition of Palm.
"The acquisition of WMD or related materials by terrorists would represent an additional threat to the international system with potentially uncontrollable consequences, " an EU document said.
But the financial industry achieved a 25-year creeping acquisition of it that led to the recent financial crisis, and today financialism controls our economic system.
Google is in the process of completing its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings , which will push it even more into the smartphone sector, where its Android operating system has been successful, and will put Google in even closer, more direct competition with Apple .
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