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Army building a marketplace for tactical comm equipment
The program will set technical standards for hardware in support of the Common Operating Environment and provide a contract vehicle for vendors to work with.
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Senate bill would cut $500M from Defense IT budget
But cyber and R&D would get a boost under bill approved by the appropriations committee.
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Squad X aims to 'organically' integrate sensors, comm, data for small units
DARPA's program wants to bring a full, near-real-time operational picture to the infantry squad.
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DISA shuts down an enterprise data center
Closing the DECC in Hunstville, Ala., is expected to add $3.2 million to the saving from consolidation.
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NERO jams aboard a drone in Army test
Flights show that a Gray Eagle can carry out electronic attacks currently handled by C-12 aircraft.
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3 companies get contracts for a satellite-launching space plane
DARPA’s XS-1 program aims to develop a hypersonic unmanned craft that can launch payloads from suborbital altitudes.
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Air Force certifies SpaceX launches for future contracts
The private space launch company is now qualified to compete for the Air Force’s EELV program.
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Air Force mulls secretive sensor research center
The SIRCUS program would investigate how to measure sensor exploitation performance and sensor development, and require up to Secret-level clearances for contractors.
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Top 20 defense contractors, 2014
Defense companies dominate Washington Technology’s Top 100 list of federal contractors.
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Army moving enterprise apps to core data centers
The migration also involves removing unused and redundant applications.
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ARL, TARDEC work to defeat laser threats that could blind soldiers
Wavelength-diverse lasers, which are difficult to filter out, could be used to blind tank gunners and attack soldiers’ eyesight.
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US arrests Chinese aerospace exec in hacking conspiracy
Su Bin, owner of Chinese aviation company Lode-Tech, collaborated with hackers to steal information about military aircraft, the Justice Department says.
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Watch: DARPA unveils guided bullets
Special .50-caliber bullets are able to change course mid-flight and hit offset targets
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3D bioprinting: Repairing burns, other traumatic injuries with new cells
Army researchers, part of a consortium of universities, hospitals and others, work on printing healthy cells onto serious wounds.
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DOD’s biometric terrorist ID upgrade ready for another close-up
Version 1.2 of ABIS, which proved lacking in tests last year, passes one round of tests and moves on to the next stage.
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ARL finds new ways to measure the fog of war
To build a better smoke grenade, the Army’s EETRANS can measure how obscurants transmit visual, infrared waves.
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A prosthetic for the brain could restore a soldier’s lost memory
DARPA and two university teams are working to develop brain implants that restore memory in patients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
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Chinese hackers hit federal employee database
OPM, which manages security clearance investigations for federal workers and the military, was attacked in March.
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Air Force seeks new ICBM technologies
The service calls for studies to explore new command and control systems, and advanced missile hardware and parts.
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