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Is DOD on its way to becoming a 'world-class' buyer?
Defense Department official Shay Assad is digging into what defense agencies are paying for products and services to determine how to get as much possible from the money they spend.
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VanRoekel leaving FCC to join USAID, newspaper says
Steven VanRoekel, who left Microsoft in 2009 to take a high-profile position to revamp the online presence of the Federal Communications Commission, is moving on, according to The Hill newspaper.
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Senior Army acquisition official resigns
Michael O'Neill abruptly resigned from his position as assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition.
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DOD, VA health record effort makes notable progress
Navy Capt. Michael Weiner says the effort to integrate DOD and VA health records is making progress, cites non-technological obstacles.
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Aneesh Chopra on TV's lessons for real life
Does he have all seven seasons of MacGyver on DVD?
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Digital Conflict: Lockheed tight-lipped on details of cyberattack
Some have criticized Lockheed Martin for not disclosing details about the large-scale cyberattack the company experienced in May. But the company might have good reason to do this.
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Subcommittee puts Emarss in a funding tailspin
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has proposed cutting $524 million from a key manned aerial reconnaissance program operated by the Army.
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Dempsey says military must adjust to viral reality
President Obama's nominee for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said June 1 that U.S. armed forces must be able to adapt to viral events such as the so-called Arab Spring.
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Army readies on-demand imagery tool for battlefield use
The Army will deploy this summer in-theater DARPA's Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team system to enable soldiers to download on-demand video from the service's aircraft onto mobile computing devices.
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Will EPA's Lisa Schlosser become federal deputy CIO?
Chris Dorobek, editor of DorobekInsider.com, reports that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is set to name EPA exec Lisa Schlosser to be his deputy CIO.
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Aircraft buying plan would double UAVs by 2020
A new 30-year aircraft buying plan submitted by the Defense Department to Congress predicts that the number of unmanned aerial vehicles in the U.S. arsenal will double over the next nine years.
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DOD needs to use public, human intell more in Afghanistan
The Defense Science Board says the U.S. military should quit relying so much on electronic intelligence and expand to get publicly available info and develop human intelligence.
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RSA tokens thought to be behind second defense contractor hack
Information that could enable attackers to break the RSA SecurID token is believed to have been used in attacks against major defense contractor L-3 Communications, which followed a similar breach against Lockheed Martin.
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Twitter's Costolo becomes Obama adviser
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins telecom advisory panel.
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Is House Defense Authorization bill a vehicle for outsourcing?
The House's defense authorization bill changes course on past efforts to restore contracted work to federal employees, but how far will it get?
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Mobile network at Empire Challenge has the RITE stuff
The Relevant ISR to the Edge is in the spotlight at Empire Challenge 11. The program enables servicemembers, using their mobile phones, to access the data they need, but does it work on the battlefield?
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Giant airships would keep longer watch over troops
The Army has partnered with contractors to develop giant airships with advanced surveillance capabilities -- one of which boasts the ability to stay aloft for as long as three weeks at a time.
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Dempsey's low-key style good sell for JCS role
President Obama's appointment of Army Gen. Martin Dempsey May 30 to serve as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wraps up a major reshuffling of his administration's national security team.
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Army to fuse aerial intell into common ops view
MUSIC will bring together manned and unmanned aircraft systems to share a visual operational picture among pilots, UAS operators and troops on the ground.
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