The San Diego region will receive $16.9 million from the Department of Homeland Security as part of the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program.

The Navy says a trained dolphin has found a 130-year-old torpedo off the San Diego coast.

A federal judge has given three-year prison sentences to two San Diego defense contractors convicted of fraud in a scheme to bribe Navy officials with more than $1 million in cash and gifts.

Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky once said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been,” and the commanding officer of Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific says the drone industry should adopt the same mentality.

Greg Call, like many business owners, is having a tough time attracting investors. Unlike many business owners, however, he's in an even more challenging position because he's a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

General Dynamics NASSCO recently delivered USNS Montford Point (MLP-1), the lead ship of the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) class, to the U.S. Navy.

San Diego's business events calendar is light this week.

Wal-Mart Stores, Sam's Club and Operation Homefront will kick off its nationwide series “Saluting Heroes Together” on Armed Forces Day Saturday with a community-wide military appreciation event in San Diego.

Robotics software company 5D Robotics Inc., known for its technologies advancing human-to-robot interaction, has moved its headquarters to a new location in Carlsbad.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) employs about 5,000 people in San Diego, but thanks to sequestration budget-tightening, that number won't rise anytime soon.

The aerospace systems sector of Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. (NYSE: NOC) is being awarded a maximum ceiling $555,600,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Air Force contract for Global Hawk modernization.

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) is being awarded a potential estimated $73,228,573 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee multiple award contract to support shore networks with sustainment services for the Base Level Information Infrastructure.

Ramona-based R.A. Burch Construction Company Inc. is being awarded a $9,008,513 modification to increase the maximum dollar value of task order 0002 for work at the Station Communication Center at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms.

Defense industry professionals are in the midst of diluting the toxic combination of rising health care costs and sequestration.

The Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group (PELARG) is scheduled to return to Naval Base San Diego from a Western Pacific deployment May 14.

In honor of Armed Forces Day on Saturday, the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce is hosting a day of food, fun and entertainment for active duty military and their families. Other events this week include presentations on forensics in the construction industry and looking for innovative technologies from emerging companies.

The amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) is scheduled to depart San Diego May 14 for a four-month deployment in support of the Navy's Pacific Partnership 2013.

FBI Supervisory Special Agent John Caruthers, the head of the San Diego field office's National Security Cyber Program, will be one of more than 20 speakers at a security conference called “Suits and Spooks”on June 15 and 16 at the Marriott La Jolla hotel.

Despite looming sequestration cuts and impacts to bottom lines, defense companies say forgoing insurance for their employees is not an option.

While big data is already a big business, it’s still in its early stages.