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The future of ISR is unmanned, whether commanders like it or not

Air Force officials see the U-2 and Global Hawk as complementary, but they’ll soon have to do without one of them.

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Army taps supercomputing to speed development of new systems

With "physics modeling" the Army and the rest of DOD can do more rapid prototyping to keep up with emerging threats.

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Army opens a mobile app store

The Training and Doctrine Command’s site will host existing applications and facilitate the creation of new ones.

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Marines award $73.2M deal for backpack electronic warfare devices

The Modi II from Sierra Nevada Corp. can jam IED detonation signals and disrupt enemy communications.

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Top 20 Defense contractors, 2015

Which contractors get the largest slices of the defense spending pie?

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DOD to expand cyber exchange program with industry

Pentagon CIO Terry Halvorsen says the employee exchange would include about 10 companies.

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Army depot deploys emergency notification system

The Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania has put a four-prong system into use for emergencies.

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Raytheon to continue work on Air Force's DCGS

In a new contract worth $393 million, Raytheon will continue work on the Distributed Common Ground System used for analyzing incoming ISR data.

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Missile-defense aerostat goes rogue, brought down in Pa.

The blimp-like craft broke free from its mooring at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., causing outages as its tether hit power lines.

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Air Force readies penultimate GPS IIF satellite for launch

The Space Command announced plans to launch the 11th of 12 total GPS IIF satellites Oct. 30, while it continues to wait for GPS III.

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Army app grants access to news from DOD research labs

ARDEC’s new mobile application keeps users, including the public, current with research going on throughout the department.

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Navy fills new top post for unmanned systems

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus taps retired Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to be the deputy assistant secretary for the Navy’s unmanned systems.

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SPAWAR in search of mobile C4I support

The Navy is looking for support in mobile command, control, communications, computer and intelligence capabilities that would operate in potentially hostile regions of the world.

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Navy awards $879M contract to expand its EW fleet

Boeing will deliver 15 EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft under terms of the deal.

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Cyber Quest looks to blend cyber with electronic warfare

The Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence is looking for vendors to help converge two emerging battlefield tools.

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Keith Alexander's cyber startup draws backing

The former NSA director's firm, IronNet, will use the cash infusion to scale his line of cybersecurity products.

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Army bringing green energy plans to forward bases

The service wants to make forward operating bases more efficient, less reliant on resupply missions.

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DISA mulls small businesses for National Gateway Center support

The agency is looking for engineering and hardware and software services in support of its cross-domain messaging system.

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Navy wrapping up its switch from BlackBerry to Apple, Android

The transition for shore-based mobile users on NMCI and ONE-Net is to be completed by the end of January 2016.

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Cyber warriors take to the battlefield

Armed and in full camo, an Army team gives a mission force valuable real-time information during a recent exercise.