Defense Systems

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.

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Army unsheathes Excalibur supercomputer

The 3.7 petaflop Cray Xc40 machine greatly boosts processing power at the Defense Supercomputing Resource Center.

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Navy is on to the next phase of laser weapons

ONR awards Northrop a potentially $91 million contract to develop a more powerful directed-energy system.

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Army wants autonomous UAS for GPS-denied environments

Researchers are looking for game-changing sensing technologies that could work for a variety of unmanned vehicles.

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Air Force 'on the road' to predictive cyber algorithm

The Air Combat Command’s chief of intelligence talks about "fusion warfare" and how today’s cyber capabilities resemble aviation during World War I.

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Air Force, Raytheon successfully test airborne EW missiles

The updated HARM Control Section Modification can suppress or destroy an enemy’s surface-to-air missile radars.

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The military is making big plans for nanoscale materials

HRL Laboratories, a joint venture of Boeing and General Motors, is developing processes to assemble strong, extremely lightweight nanoscale materials for DOD systems

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The five stages of a cyber intrusion

In accordance with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Navy detailed the steps adversaries use to gain access to networks and steal data.

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'Bioscavengers' could stop nerve agents in their tracks

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is looking to protect warfighters from nerve agents like sarin before those agents can do any damage.

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Going mobile: DOD needs to take the next steps on security

DOD is ahead of civilian agencies on security, a SolarWinds survey finds, but there is still a lot of work to be done.