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Navy hires Lockheed for shipboard electronic warfare upgrades
The SEWIP contract for $8 million could be worth as much as $59 million.
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NRO jumps on open source bandwagon
Spy agencies are paradoxically embracing open source technologies as they seek more security.
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Army giving cyber warriors a training range of their own
CECOM will open the Cyber Battle Ground to all units later this year to speed up cyber operations training.
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ARL scientist zooms in on a better way to search confiscated images
A new interface for DARPA's Visual Media Reasoning system spares Intelligence Community analysts a lot of time and frustration.
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Bill would mandate a streamlined satellite program
An amendment to the Senate intel bill would put into law what the military has been trying to do anyway.
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Army awards contract for WIN-T Increment 2
The Army has awarded General Dynamics $219 million for full-rate production of systems for its battlefield network.
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Navy forks over $9.1 million for XP support
Deal covers 100,000 computers still running the OS, which Microsoft debuted in 2001 and stopped selling in 2010.
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DISA rolls out new classified smartphone system
The new version of DMCC-S improves interoperability, boosts graphics and sound, and adds a mobile device management system.
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Military establishes space-focused center to counter China, Russia
The Air Force and Rand Corp. have established the China Aerospace Studies Institute to focus on the persistent threat China and Russia poses to U.S. technological and military superiority.
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Navy boosts Raytheon's contract for Next Generation Jammer
The $13 million contract modification support development of the service's next electronic warfare weapon.
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DOD set to 'double down' on geospatial intelligence
Speakers at the GEOINT symposium talk about the value, but also the challenges, of "creating coherence out of chaos."
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Navy awards $60.9M deal for maritime drone program
Northrop Grumman will supply support for its BAM-D Global Hawk.
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Humans, computers and the quest for Sensing as a Service
At the GEOINT symposium, AFRL’s Steve Rogers talks about the gap between automated systems and true autonomy.
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Navy making faster work of software upgrades
Sometimes little things, like “eradicating” XP, make a difference.
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Airborne 'stealth launch' of CubeSat said to be underway
DARPA and the Air Force are readying a program to launch small, inexpensive satellites on short notice.
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DISA: We need industry more than ever
A panel of agency IT leaders says the "old days of us against you are over."
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Air Force concludes fast-acquisition 'PlugFest' test
The event was part of the broader Bending the Cost Curve program, which aims to cut acquisition cycles for some program from years to weeks.
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Navy awards a second $478.6M contract for joint tactical radios
The award to Data Links Solutions, identical to the recent deal to ViaSat, brings the total committed to MIDS JTRS terminals to nearly a billion dollars.
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Coast Guard sees natural gas exports as potential cyber issue
Adm. Paul F. Zukunft says the Coast Guard’s cyber defense capabilities must protect against nation states that might feel threatened by a growing U.S. natural resource export market.
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