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White House, not JCS, to coordinate terrorist targets for UAV strikes
White House counterterror Chief John Brennan will coordinate discussions as to which terrorist leaders will be the targets of armed unmanned aircraft strikes, signaling an important change from previous arrangements in which the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff initiated the discussion with other agencies.
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DOD achieves record throughput in WGS bandwidth test
Defense Department researchers were able to transmit a 1.3 gigabits/sec carrier signal through the Wideband Global Satcom constellation Hawaii facility in a test designed to determine the full capability that the next-gen satellites can provide to warfighters around the globe.
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New northern cyber division has threefold mission
The new Joint Cyber Center includes members from the intelligence, operations, and command and control divisions, and a team from the U.S. Cyber Command.
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China hard at work on offensive cyber weapons
China continues to develop cyber weapons that it is using to carry out computer network intrusions and data theft activities around the globe, according to an annual DOD report.
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NATO inks $1.7B deal for Block 40 Global Hawks
NATO officials have signed a $1.7 billion contract with Northrop Grumman for five Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles that the alliance plans to use for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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Software app keeps smart-phone chatter secure
Several military and intelligence agencies are using an anti-hacking software application that delivers voice encryption to block call interceptions on smart phones.
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New Army lab does the heavy lifting before the NIE
Aberdeen Proving Ground facility tests and evaluates software and electronics bound for field evaluation.
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Navy plans to pinch pennies on NGEN
The Navy is looking for the best price it can get on the Next Generation Enterprise Network contract.
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House rolls back export restrictions on satellites
The House of Representatives has passed an amendment to the 2013 defense authorization bill that would ease export restrictions on commercial satellites and simplify their export to allies and partners.
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Common data sharing essential to AirSea Battle doctrine
The "AirSea Battle" concept championed by top Navy and Air Force brass has a long way to go since there is a noticeable lack of data-sharing protocol between the two military services.
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Defending mobile networks: An uphill battle against endless threats
COTS solutions are the mainstay of military security, but they bring their own issues.
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Why the US needs a robust cyber arsenal
The United States must find a way to display its arsenal of operational hacking weapons to deter domestic and international cyber threats, says the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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North Korea's GPS jamming poses recurring cyber threat
This time there were no injuries or deaths, but what about next time?
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Navy to test 4G LTE command and control network at sea
The Navy recently established a year-long pilot program for the Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group to test a portable maritime command and control system built around Oceus Networks' Xiphos cellular technology.
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Cybersecurity chief steps down, plans long Harley ride
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt plans to step down at the end of May after serving as the Obama administration's point person for efforts to develop a national and international cybersecurity strategies designed to protect vulnerable computer networks.
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Army puts new comms systems to the test at third NIE
Several thousand soldiers participating in the Army's third Network Integration Evaluation under way at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico will test at least three key communications systems and evaluate another 36 systems.
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X-47B moves closer to carrier demo in 2013
Navy technicians will perform arrested landings and catapult launches of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland this year in preparation for a carrier demonstration in 2013.
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That's an order: The summer reading list from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has selected 18 books for his "Chairman's Professional Reading List" that he believes can help prepare personnel in all of the military services for the future.
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Army looks to GSA for fast purchase of vehicle radios
The Army might turn to the General Services Administration to fill an urgent need to outfit a brigade combat team scheduled for deployment to Afghanistan in 2013 with commercially developed, vehicle-mounted radios.
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