Defense Systems
DISA exceeds fiscal 2012 small business goals
The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded $1.3 billion in contracting dollars to small businesses in fiscal 2012, exceeding its goals for the fiscal year.
Defense Systems
Next Army NIE to focus on common operating environment, operational energy
The Army is seeking mature technologies for testing at its fall 2013 Network Integration Evaluation that it can use to refine and improve key aspects of its current and evolving network systems.
Defense Systems
BAE wins $226M Army GPS deal
BAE has won an Army contract to furnish Global Positioning System technology and services.
Defense Systems
SAIC nabs $667M Navy technical services deal
Science Applications International Corp. has won a contract potentially worth as much as $667 million over three years from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center-Atlantic to furnish technical support.
Defense Systems
General Dynamics to furnish NATO with ground surveillance software
General Dynamics Canada has been awarded a $32 million contract to furnish key communications network technology for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) program.
Defense Systems
Army open to possible future role for Palantir intel software
The Army appears to still be considering a role for a rival off-the-shelf system that deployed units have asked to use in the field.
Defense Systems
Microsoft inks first-ever joint licensing agreement with DoD
Microsoft announced Friday the most comprehensive licensing agreement ever established with the Department of Defense.
Defense Systems
Networked resistance on the rise in 2013
We have just begun to acknowledge the true power of networked resistance.
Defense Systems
Defense bill removes barrier to satellite exports
The 2013 defense authorization bill signed into law on Jan. 3 by President Obama will give U.S. satellite companies a more even playing field when competing in the international market by removing long-standing regulations that had hindered growth and innovation.
Defense Systems
Cubic to furnish asset tracking to Afghanistan bases
Cubic Global Tracking Solutions has been awarded three Army and General Services Administration Schedule orders totaling approximately $4.8 million to expand its wireless mesh asset tracking technology at two U.S. bases in Afghanistan.
Defense Systems
7 vie for $1.4B worth of DISA network services tasks
The Defense Department has awarded a $1.4 billion contract to seven companies to compete for task orders in support of the Defense Information System Network.
Defense Systems
Canada wants its own UAVs, but has done little to make it happen
Despite an effort begun six years ago to establish an unmanned aircraft capability, Canadian Forces still have neither fielded unmanned aerial vehicles for routine surveillance of the country's coasts nor for overseas missions.
Defense Systems
Obama signs laws delaying sequestration, establishing defense policy
President Barack Obama on Jan. 3 signed into a bill that would delay the deep sequestration budget cuts and also signed the 2013 military policy bill.
Defense Systems
Sequestration delayed for 2 months, DOD still vulnerable
The bipartisan agreement hammered out by lawmakers at the last minute to avert sequestration delays the inevitable for two months.
Defense Systems
Lockheed gets 10-year, $1.9B contract for 2 AEHF satellites
Lockheed Martin received a 10-year, $1.9 billion contract modification from the Air Force for its continuing work on the Advanced Extremely High Vehicle (AEHF) program.
Defense Systems
Defense authorization bill would require contractors to report cyber breaches
The 2013 defense authorization bill would require contractors to inform the Defense Department about breaches of their networks that contain military data.
Defense Systems
Lockheed buys maker of software for UAV control stations
Lockheed Martin has acquired CDL Systems, a developer of software for vehicle control stations used with unmanned systems.
Defense Systems
AAI wins Army contract to support remote video terminal
AAI has won a contract to furnish contractor logistics support for the Army's One System Remote Video Terminal.
Defense Systems
Army builds new sensor system to keep roads safe in war zones
The Army is building a new system to counter threats from enemy explosives buried in or beside roadways in war zones that works in conjunction with radars.
Defense Systems