Defense Systems
Army clears hurdles in data center consolidation
The Army is tackling challenges in downsizing and quantifying savings, and its successes so far could help other agencies.
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Network strategy helps Army cross budget minefield
The Army's Network Integration Evaluation is modernizing the way the Army develops, acquires and fields technology, and is also helping it maneuver austere budget conditions.
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Navy orders improved JTRS tactical data links
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has awarded engineering development orders totaling more than $15 million to ViaSat to furnish MIDS JTRS terminals that will facilitate the transmission of voice and data and increase warfighter situational awareness.
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Air Force mulls scale back of ISR programs
The Air Force has some tough decisions to make concerning which intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs to cut as it scales down to a smaller intelligence force structure capable of meeting various types of threats in future decades.
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Army PEO Integration shifts, creates new command
The Army is creating a new command, the Director, System of Systems Integration, to manage new technologies and the Army's Network Integration Evaluation exercises.
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DOD program secures defense contractor networks – for now
Since its launch in May a Defense Department trial program has been successfully defending some 20 defense contractors' networks and, thus, some of the nation's critical data. However, it is unclear what will happen to the program after mid-November.
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Phantom Eye UAV slated for fuel and flight tests
Boeing plans to fly its Phantom Eye long-endurance unmanned aircraft, a project which the company is funding from its own pocket in hopes of attracting defense customers, in late October or early November at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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Navy looks to ultra-endurance UAV for critical comms link
The Navy has expressed an interest in the a solar-powered, ultra-endurance unmanned aircraft under development by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as a way to furnish communications to carrier strike groups if satellites are knocked out of service.
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Iran putting up a fight in drone wars
Despite the existence of international sanctions, Iran is holding a domestic contest in an effort to create its own arsenal of unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Senate confirms Carter to serve in DOD's No. 2 post
The Senate Sept. 23 confirmed the nomination of Ashton Carter to take over as the Defense Department's next deputy defense secretary.
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Army must balance tech upgrades with shrinking budgets: Price
The Army must juggle its aggressive efforts in network integration and modernization and also deal with constricting budgets, said Brig. Gen. N. Lee S. Price.
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US, South Korean exercise finds glitch in intell software
U.S. and South Korean military intelligence analysts experienced repeated problems when the Distributed Common Ground System-Army went offline recently during a training exercise.
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Unmanned, manned aircraft harmonize at Army demo
The Army exercise showcased data sharing and control capabilities between unmanned, manned and ground systems.
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Army to deploy enterprisewide logistics sytem
The Global Combat Support System, one of DOD's largest ERP deployments, would allow soldiers to track deliveries of vital supplies to the battlefield.
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Marine UAV operator pledges to mentor others
Sgt. Chad John, an unmanned aerial vehicle operator with Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3 at Camp Leatherneck in southwestern Afghanistan, spends 12 hours a day viewing the stark landscape of Afghanistan through a camera attached to a small, lightweight RQ-7B Shadow in an effort to get sharp, crisp views of areas into which fellow Marines will be patrolling.
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Yemen, Somalian drone wars drive US to open African bases
The United States' presence in Africa is vital to fighting militants in Yemen and Somalia. So does that mean more bases could be on their way?
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DHS names Spaulding to critical infrastructure post
Suzanne Spaulding is the new deputy undersecretary for DHS' National Protection & Programs Directorate, according to a news report.
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Strong policy needed to counter cyber aggression
We must not allow our antiquated legislative processes and doctrine creation methods to constrain our offensive, defensive and intelligence collection capabilities in the cyber conflict domain.
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LightSquared's proposals not viable, general says
LightSquared's proposed network cannot exist with the U.S. military's Global Positioning System technology, said Gen. William Shelton.
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