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DARPA to develop offensive cyberspace capabilities
The Defense Department's advanced research arm has been given additional funds and directed to focus on military cyberspace applications.
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DOD must redesign its network defenses, cyber chief says
The Defense Department must restructure how it defends its networks and manages security, says Gen. Keith Alexander.
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Air Force awards contract for cryptographic radio devices
In the first technology upgrade of the military’s portable radio devices in more than two decades, Raytheon Co. will design new lighter, power-efficient transmitter devices with more secure encryption technology.
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Navy to outfit an X-47B prototype with refueling gear
The Navy plans to add aerial refueling capability to one of its two prototype carrier-based X-47B unmanned aerial vehicles that are in the development stage.
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MILCOM to focus on attaining the full value of networks
The MILCOM 2011 conference, "Networks: Attaining the Value," will be held Nov. 8-10 in Baltimore, Md., and Defense Systems staff will be on site to provide detailed coverage of presentations made by featured speakers.
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Military braces for roll out of massive ERP projects
The Army's General Fund Enterprise Business System project will centralize one of the largest business systems conglomerations in the world.
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Air Force looks for ways to ease pain of civilian job cuts
Details are beginning to emerge on which Air Force installations will be hardest hit by civilian jobs cuts related to the service's restructuring effort.
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Army to outfit combat teams with networking radios
The Army is expanding its efforts to field networking waveform radios for its brigade combat modernization teams through the award of a $66 million contract to outfit eight teams with AN/PRC-117G radios.
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Air Force to restructure civilian workforce, add ISR positions
The Air Force has announced that it will launch a major restructuring of its civilian workforce that will result in a net reduction of thousands of civilian jobs.
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Navy expected to make single award for NGEN program
The Navy plans to select a single winner for its Next Generation Enterprise Network even though it issued two separate solicitations for the project, according to the market intelligence firm Deltek.
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Small, tactical systems fill aerial coverage gap
The Defense Department is sending more small unmanned aircraft to the war zone to plug gaps in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance coverage.
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Despite overall cuts, defense IT spending expected to grow
DOD won't be spending as much on IT as it did earlier in the decade, but industry can still expect opportunities, especially in IT, in fiscal 2012, according to a new industry outlook from Deltek.
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Companies stampede for cyber gold rush
The belief that military cyber budgets are safe from defense budget cuts has compelled many new private sector organizations to pursue cyber defense opportunities.
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Modularity in satellite design is key to quick response
The Operationally Responsive Space Office is driving changes that shorten development times for military satellites.
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Army to deploy micro-grid system to meet green goals
L-3 Westwood has won an Army contract to furnish an energy-saving, micro-grid system that the service will use in theater to meet its environmental goals.
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Navy facility to assess Shadow UAS payloads
The Navy’s Unmanned Aircraft System Test Directorate plans to test new technologies and payloads for the Shadow Tactical UAS at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.
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China, Russia top actors in cyber espionage: Report
Online industrial spying by China and Russia poses a growing threat to the U.S. economy and national security, according to a report from the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive.
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Next stop for Army mobile devices: Tablet central
The Army is building on the popularity of smart phones in the field with further testing and expansion of the use of tablets for a range of applications.
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Army makes mission command-on-the-move key goal of NIE
Army Brig. Gen. Randal Dragon, commanding general, Army Brigade Modernization Command, discusses Network Integration Evaluation 12.1 and mission command-on-the-move.
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