Intellitactics to support ship defense

RESTON, Va., July 31 (UPI) -- DRS Technologies has contracted Intellitactics for its Security Manager technology in support of a U.S. Navy Sea Systems Command deal.

DRS awarded the contract for the Intellitactics Security Manager under a deal to develop a security information and event management system to protect NAVSEA's Ship Self-Defense Systems.

DRS selected the ISM technology, a flash drive software solution that aggregates security events and generates security alerts, among other alert reporting, to support the internal data storage and compression on the Linux-based monitoring console.

"The principal air threat to U.S. Naval surface ships is a variety of highly capable anti-ship cruise missiles," Bill Rucker, Intellitactics director of public sector sales, said in a statement.

"Detection, tracking, assessment and engagement decisions are required to defend against these threats, with the duration from initial detection of a missile to its engagement with weapons typically on the order of a minute or less. The Self-Defense Systems is designed to accomplish these defensive actions. The protection and security of this on-board network is crucial."