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Navy forges ahead with autonomous underwater programs
A $35.5 million contract award to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will support ongoing project and development of new technologies.
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Navy initiative makes cybersecurity an all-hands-on-deck job
Task Force Cyber Awakening, prompted by the NMCI hack, will apply cyber controls to all aspects of naval operations.
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Next generation of optical storage offers a big data option
Hitachi's enterprise platform can keep data for up to 1,000 years and is resistant to water, sand, even EMPs.
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Watch: the future of autonomous robots
The Air Force Research lab puts together a video of small systems that explore risky settings without endangering lives.
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Bids are in for $11B DOD health records system
Four teams pairing integrators with EHR specialists are vying to overhaul of Military Health System.
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ONR, Marines blend logistics into Agile Bloodhound
The annual test of real-time collaboration tools pushes the Corps toward mobile networking goal.
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Wang named Army deputy CIO
He'll take over for Mike Krieger, who will retire from the civil service Oct. 31.
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Pentagon looking for an edge in chemical, biological drone warfare
The Thunderstorm demonstration program wants UAS that can detect and deter weapons of mass destruction, and technologies that can defense against small, WMD-laden drones.
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Record-breaking terahertz circuit could open new bands of the spectrum
DARPA's trillion-cycles-per-second TMIC, officially recognized by Guinness, could lead to a wave of breakthrough applications.
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AFRL tool makes suite work of intelligence analysis
The integrated software, called ERNEST, combines and streamlines many of analysts’ routine tasks.
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Army providing communications backbone for Ebola response
The service is deploying tactical networks in West Africa to connect relief organizations that have been working without much infrastructure.
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With Army app, units won't have to SWET water needs
Researchers develop an Android smartphone app that helps solve what can be a tricky problem.
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Chasing big data? You're going to need a bigger boat
Bandwidth is as important as algorithms as the military's wide array of sensors collects huge data sets.
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Budget pressures push Air Force to mull commercial satellite tracking
Intelsat and others will study commercial provisioning of satellite tracking services under an Air Force contract.
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How big data is paying off for DOD
There’s no silver bullet to handling huge sets of data, but the military is finding ways to put analytics to use.
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DISA mulls on-premises models for cloud providers
Under these scenarios, vendors would either set up shop inside a DOD data center or operate from a modular container on the premises.
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Mobilizing the network? All those data sources can be a real drag
DOD needs to be prepared for the increased network complexity brought on by mobile command posts, UAVs and other data sources, SolarWinds’ Chris LaPoint writes.
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4 strategies for dealing with the coming data tsunami
Done well, big data analytics uncovers valuable nuggets of intelligence hidden inside mountains of structured, unstructured, real-time and legacy data assets, NetApp’s Greg Gardner writes.
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Air Force ups the ante on sense-and-avoid UAV technology
A $23.5 million contract awarded to DRA will fund improvements to a collision avoidance system that takes advantage of an unmanned aircraft’s existing sensors.
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