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Blue Devil Block 2 airship has friends in high places
A pair of influential U.S. senators are upset about Air Force plans to cut the 370-foot-long Blue Devil Block 2 airship program and have informed the Defense Department that they believe it would be "a significant failure to stop work and not deploy" the platform to Afghanistan.
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Line of sight: A buzzword defined
A FOSE speaker revisits a story from the Kennedy era to explain a management concept.
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US' intellectual capital is easy prey
One former NSA official says both government and industry organizations need to improve the security of their infrastructure and networks before it loses its world-leader status.
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Is continuous security monitoring worth the payoff?
Moving to a risk-management model of cybersecurity with continuous monitoring of systems can be difficult on a tight budget, but if done right, the savings can make it all worth the work.
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Insider threats defense plan in the works, but will it work?
The FBI and ODNI are leading the initiative to develop a national policy on insider threats expected by year's end. However, it will take more than fancy technology to do the job.
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Tactical radios and mobile devices: Powered by imagination
Designers think creatively to meet the evolving communications needs of dispersed and mobile forces.
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Poseidon P-8A delivered to Navy, ready for BAMS integration
Naval Air Station Jacksonville celebrated the arrival of the first new, network-enabled P-8A Poseidon multi-mission aircraft in late March.
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Are miniature drones with flapping wings really practical?
The main challenge in making miniature drones with flapping wings work on the battlefield is finding enough battery power.
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Army over-estimated enterprise e-mail savings, report says
Army estimates of the expected cost savings from deployment of its enterprise e-mail initiative were exaggerated, reveals a report from the Army CIO to Congress that was released to the public April 2.
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Setting a new standard: Marines want a few good multi-platform mobile devices
The Marine Corps is looking for a new generation of secure mobile devices that can work in both classified government domains and the commercial marketplace.
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WIN-T 2 undergoes unusual test on road to full-rate production
After braving overnight temperatures of negative 35 degrees in Alaska, elements of the Army's second-generation tactical communications network backbone were still fully operational.
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Military gets do-it-yourself network waveform kit
Military services and defense agencies will now be able to develop and adapt their own SDR-standard waveforms and integrate them with SDR platforms by using the Thales-built SDR Networking Lab kit.
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Military services to get new digital imaging systems
GE will provide the Defense Logistics Agency with a digital imaging network-picture archive, communication system and components.
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DARPA scouts for big-data fixes
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to call on the applied-mathematics, computer-science and data-visualization communities to develop big-data analytics for warfighters.
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Global Hawk has staunch defender in Congress
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), a member of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, says he will recommend continuing funding for the Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aircraft, which the Air Force plans to put into storage as a key part of a comprehensive budget-cutting effort.
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Mass layoffs loom large on defense industry horizon
The U.S. defense industry might experience hundreds of thousands of layoffs if members of Congress don't take action to head off an additional $500 billion in defense budget cuts that could take effect in January 2013, a top Pentagon official told Congress.
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Nuclear force in need of C3 improvements, STRATCOM's Kehler says
STRATCOM's command, control and communications network is functioning at a less than an optimum level, Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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The new arms race
Criminals, terrorists and rogue nation states are attacking computers and devices that connect to the Internet at an unprecedented rate.
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Winners and losers in the fiscal 2013 budget
It's been several weeks since the release of the fiscal 2013 defense budget, and heads are certainly still spinning in the Pentagon. Here are some of the winners and losers at each of the services.
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