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Intelligence agencies getting on board with IC ITE

With the foundation set, the initiative is also looking to improve enterprise management and develop new capabilities.

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ULA, Bezos join forces on new rocket engine

A commercial aerospace venture backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos will work with the United Launch Alliance to develop a new engine for Atlas and Delta rockets used to launch many military satellites.

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After hacks, Transcom to require contractors to report data breaches

A Senate investigation found that only two of at least 20 successful intrusions traced to China were reported to the Transportation Command.

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Army launches $49.5 million anti-IED challenge

Twenty contractor teams will compete in a program to detect and identify explosives planted in culverts.

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Body sensors could improve future soldiers’ performance

A panel of researchers working with the Army discusses the importance of monitoring both physical and psychological stressors.

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DOD updates DISA's role as the department's cloud broker

Shift reflects a greater openness toward commercial services, while outlining how agencies can procure them.

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iRobot wins $9.6 million contract with Canada

The robotics maker, a regular supplier for the U.S. military, will deliver 20 chemical- and bomb-sniffing PackBot robots.

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Army turns to industry for better cyber capabilities

The Contracting Command is seeking white papers from contractors that can develop new cyber capabilities and approaches.

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Army awards $7.2 billion deal for integrated intelligence support

Twenty-one contractors will have to compete for individual task orders to support intelligence, information operations.

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Air Force wants a better way to map and analyze its networks

The MAMA program seeks increased mission assurance by analyzing network traffic flows and associated metadata.

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Wearable robot will put a spring in soldiers' steps

The lightweight, flexible Soft Exosuit being developed at Harvard can cut down on fatigue and musculoskeletal injuries.

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Navy hires Lockheed for next phase of SEWIP

Lockheed Martin receives up to $147 million for low-rate initial production of the upgraded electronic warfare system.

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Researchers 'grow' lasers in chip breakthrough

The DARPA-funded work could cut costs and SWAP for microsystems used in radars, sensors and communications devices.

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DARPA to hunt for space and time vulnerabilities of software algorithms

The STAC program is looking for techniques to find flaws in algorithms that could leak information or enable denial of service attacks.

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Putting powerful analytics into a 'Facebook for terrorists'

Modus Operandi’s semantic technology corrals and analyzes intelligence big data and puts it into a familiar interface.

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Army to spend $23 million on landmine-hunting robots

The service awards a contract for the Autonomous Mine Detection System to detect, mark and neutralize buried explosives.

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Army eyes small, light SATCOM terminals for Special Ops

CERDEC is looking for technologies to build a lightweight antenna that can operate in low look angles.

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Watch: DARPA’s future armored vehicles concept

The agency is looking to build smaller vehicles that would sense and dodge enemy attacks.

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Army looks to harness LTE for battlefield ISR

CERDEC is seeking possible providers of a deployable LTE network that would increase soldiers’ situational awareness.

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Raising the stakes: NATO says a cyber attack on one is an attack on all

A new policy includes cyber attacks under Article 5 of the NATO charter, which—if invoked—could require member states to respond collectively.