Nowadays, Military products of superpowers countries have a high level of diversity, delivery speed, and appropriative operational functionality. Therefore, Production of varied, high quality and high speed delivery military products, is essential for enhance Iran's defensive deterrence power. Defense industries supply chain agility is an answer to how to produce military products with these f...

The international community is currently undergoing an incremental but definite shift of the economic and strategic centers of gravity to Asia. The fundamental change has been brought about mainly by newly emerging powers like China and India. In the Asia-Pacific region, this geo-strategic reconfiguration has led to a changing balance of power and influence between the United States and China i...

THE UNITED STATES is pursuing a defense strategy developed during the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), stated in terms of “shape, re­ spond, and prepare now.” The latter tenet of this strategy implies change in defense ca­ pabilities to leverage advances in techno-l ogy and address operational challenges envisioned for the early twenty-first century. Certainly, aerospace power will have a key ...

“The concept of ‘smart powerSmart power’—the intelligent integration and networking diplomacy, defense, development, other tools so-called ‘hard soft’ power—is at the very heart President ObamaObama, Barack Secretary Clinton’s policy vision.”

We study moving-target defense (MTD) that actively perturbs transmission line reactances to thwart stealthy false data injection (FDI) attacks against state estimation in a power grid. Prior work on this topic has proposed MTD based on randomly selected reactance perturbations, but these perturbations cannot guarantee effective attack detection. To address the issue, we present formal design cr...

The new scenarios of malicious attack prompt for their deeper consideration and mainly when critical systems are at stake. In this framework, infrastructural systems, including power systems, represent a possible target due to the huge impact they can have on society. Malicious attacks are different in their nature from other more traditional cause of threats to power system, since they embed a...