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How to Code Sign Your Applications for Adobe AIR?

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Code Signing for Adobe Air: Understanding the Process & How and Where to Purchase the Code Signing Certificate

Adobe Air is one the best runtime environments that can be used to build quality applications for web and mobile. It aids developers with several valuable features and components to make development easier and more effective.

However, running apps built in Adobe Air without security warnings is only possible through a legit Adobe code signing certificate. It ensures that your application code is safe and has not been tampered with and the app is safe to use.

Hence, purchasing an Adobe code signing certificate to run apps on Adobe Air is necessary.

How to Code Sign Your Apps for Adobe Air?

Cutting down to the chase, let us simply start with understanding the process of code signing for Adobe Air:

Step 1: Researching the Right Adobe Code Signing Certificate

To start with the process, you first must do a little research and find a suitable code signing certificate that will help you sign Adobe Air apps. Remember, you need to buy a certificate that supports the Adobe Air platform. Hence, make your research Adobe specific and decide which certificate is suitable for your application. Here are three options to choose from:

Step 2: Purchasing the Adobe Code Signing Certificate

After deciding which certificate is ideal for code signing for Adobe Air apps, you can make the actual purchase. Note that buying a code signing certificate for your Adobe Air apps will help you prevent the security warning messages that appear while installing or running the app on the web or mobile platforms.

Step 3: Learning the Process to Code Sign Adobe Air Apps

To sign your Adobe Air apps with an Adobe code signing certificate, you will first need to export your certificate as a .PFX file from the internet browser you are using. Once you have the .PFX file, you can use it to code sign Adobe Air apps.

Here is the process to export .PFX file from different internet browsers:

A. Microsoft Edge

The following is the process to export .PFX file from Microsoft Edge:

  1. Open the Microsoft Edge browser.
  2. Go to the upper right corner of the browser, click on the three dots, and select Settings.
  3. Select the…

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HII Wins $76.7M Air Force Contract for Electronic Warfare Research and Analysis

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Huntington Ingalls Industries names president of cyber warfare group - Virginia Business
Grant Hagen, HII

HII’s Mission Technologies division has been awarded a $76.7 million task order by the U.S. Air Force to perform research, analysis, test and evaluation to support on electronic warfare and electromagnetic spectrum capabilities development.

“We are pleased to extend our partnership with the U.S. Air Force on a strategy to ensure EW and EMS dominance and enable the U.S. to maintain its advantage over a rapidly evolving global threat,” said Grant Hagen, president of the division’s Cyber, Electronic Warfare & Space business group. “The award reinforces the USAF’s confidence in our team, and we look forward to executing the contract.”

The EMS superiority development task order was awarded under the Defense Department’s Information Analysis Center’s multiple-award contract vehicle. The USAF 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron, part of the USAF Installation Contracting Center, awards DOD Information Analysis Center Multiple Award Contract
task orders through a competitive process.

HII has been supporting the program since 2017 and is teamed with DCS Corp., Modern Technology Solutions Inc., On-Line Applications Research Corp., Southwest Research Institute and Vanderbilt University to perform the work over five years.

Under the contract, the HII team will develop technical recommendations for the Advanced Capabilities and Strategic Integration team ⏤ part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Electronic Warfare and Avionics Division. Areas of research may include artificial intelligence and machine learning, cyber and microelectronics.

HII’s research and analysis will help reduce technical risk, provide mature technologies and deliver systems engineering rigor needed to improve warfighter survivability at reduced total lifecycle cost.

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Air Force assembling electronic warfare ‘sprint’ to fix deficiencies

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Air Force is stepping up efforts to improve electromagnetic spectrum capabilities that are “nowhere near” where they need to be, according to Lt. Gen. Leah Lauderback.

The deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and cyber effects operations told the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference that the service is poised to answer questions about requirements and funding flows.

“We are just starting the sprint,” she said Sept. 20. “It’s with the acquisition community, it’s with the operational community.”

Modern warfare relies on the electromagnetic spectrum, which militaries leverage for communications, situational awareness and even weapons guidance. Competition over the spectrum is expected to be heated in a conflict involving the U.S., China or Russia.

The Air Force undertaking could eventually produce a so-called operational imperative — a service priority marked by intense focus and investment. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall in March laid out seven imperatives, among them the pursuit of the Advanced Battle Management System and a better understanding of resilient basing, sustainment and communications in contested environments.

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“You might see this turn into another operational imperative, like a year from now, or something of that nature,” Lauderback said Tuesday. “But it’s something that we do not have a deep bench on, at all.”

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown has said the service was “asleep at the wheel” for decades in electromagnetic operations. Adversaries have observed how critical the spectrum is for U.S. forces and have sought sophisticated methods to deny, jam and spoof.

Taking full advantage of the spectrum and related assets, Brown said last year, could save money while still delivering results. The Air Force last summer activated the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing, a first-of-its-kind entity designed to optimize electromagnetic capabilities and provide maintenance, operational and technical expertise.

“In some aspects, an electron is much cheaper than a very expensive missile,” Brown said at the time.

Colin Demarest is a reporter at C4ISRNET, where…

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Air and Space Forces raise bonus amounts for technically trained cyber troops

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A senior airman with five years in cyber warfare is eligible for an $83,610 bonus for re-enlisting for six years, the same amount due airmen in the pararescue, combat control and tactical air control party fields.

A senior airman with five years in cyber warfare is eligible for an $83,610 bonus for re-enlisting for six years, the same amount due airmen in the pararescue, combat control and tactical air control party fields. (J.M. Eddins Jr./U.S. Air Force)

The Air Force and Space Force are prepared to pay a premium to keep their cyber-trained professionals wearing blue, according to the updated list of bonus-eligible career fields.

Released Sept. 8, that list added two cyber-related career specialties for a total of 65 careers eligible for a re-enlistment bonus, including five existing cyber fields whose bonus potentials also increased.

“This [Selective Retention Bonus] addition is an acknowledgement of extreme demand for the advanced skills and talent within the targeted cyber specialties, as well as their criticality to the future force,” Air Force spokeswomen Laurel Falls told Stars and Stripes by email Tuesday.

The largest bonus bumps within the cyber fields went to the cyber warfare and defense specialties. Airmen who re-up in those fields would receive the same amount as those in special tactics jobs, historically the riskiest jobs, whose practitioners were paid the highest bonuses.

A senior airman with five years in cyber warfare is eligible for an $83,610 bonus for re-enlisting for six years, the same amount airmen in the pararescue, combat control and tactical air control party fields.

“For some cyber specialties, cumulative individual training costs reach close to one million dollars and the unique National Defense experiences that further develop these member’s cyber proficiency are nearly incalculable,” Falls said.

The Air Force created cyber warfare operations as a career field in 2010. The career field remains open only to enlisted personnel serving in information technology professions.

Specialists in this field ensure computer networks function properly and remain secure from outside intrusion, according to the Air Force website.

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