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Army's portable power looks to charge battlefield

Army researchers are developing a variety of portable power systems to keep troops' high-tech gear juiced up.

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Army Materiel Command gets IT infrastructure boost

Harris Corp. will provide IT infrastructure support to the Army Materiel Command headquarters at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., under a three-year, $77 million contract from the National Capital Region Contracting Center.

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Is North Korea poised to revolutionize cyber warfare?

A recent cyberattack on South Korean government websites that compromised classified documents shows the skill of the adversaries we face in the cyber realm, says Kevin Coleman of Technolytics.

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Identifying the source of cyber attacks

One of the biggest challenges confronting the Cyber command and others involved in cybersecurity is the ability to attribute acts of cyber aggression back to the real originating source.

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11 defense contracts worth watching

Washington Technology ranks the largest and most important contracts that will hit the market in the next 12 months.

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Navy schedules satellite system upgrade

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. will provide satellite communications assistance to the Military Sealift Command under a $315 million indefinite, delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a guaranteed first-year minimum of $5 million.

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Air Force creates new acquisition office

Small business is set to remain a top priority as the Air Force works to improve its contracting, purchasing and requirements processes.

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DOD awards contractor pair of NetCents tasks

NCI Information Systems Inc. has gotten two task orders from the Defense Department’s Network Centric Solutions contract that have a cumulative value of about $18.5 million.

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Navy sets course to better link shipboard networks

Achieving interoperability across multiple domains and networks poses a formidable challenge as the Navy embarks on its Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program.

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Navy readies NGEN for prime time

The Navy's acquisition plan for its Next Generation Enterprise Network details its development approach.

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What's ahead for DOD's cyber forces

The Defense Department is putting in place the infrastructure and tools needed to achieve its cyber protection goals and objectives.

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DARPA wants tech to connect soldiers in barren lands

The Defense Department's research agency kicks off another program in its many-pronged effort to create smart, cognitive battlefield networks.

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Air Force stays course on business software assistance

Harris Corp. will continue to provide technical assistance to the Air Force under a two-year, $15 million follow-on award under the Network-Centric Solutions contract.

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Cyber Command puts its philosophy into action

The Defense Department in 2010 established a unified Cyber Command and set to work on a new philosophy on how to defend networks.

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Cloud platform boosts collaboration at DOD

Rob Vietmeyer, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency's Forge.mil, says open development has produced big benefits in collaboration and enterprise visibility, in addition to lower costs and streamlined operations.

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Army sets up central medical care site for wounded warriors

A new website is geared toward helping soldiers and veterans who need complex medical care to navigate all the available information on benefits and other resources.

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Who will be the next Army CIO?

With the retirement of Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson as Army chief information officer, the military IT community is now wondering who will fill the formidable shoes he leaves behind.

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Navy awards contract for air combat systems support

The company will provide engineering and technical services to the Navy under a five-year, $24 million follow-on award at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division.

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Navy selects contractor for maritime drone support

Science Applications International Corp. will furnish technical and engineering support to the Navy office that manages unmanned aircraft systems that conduct maritime surveillance under a task order potentially worth $39 million over five years

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Army improves airborne intelligence

Army Col. Keith Hirschman, project manager of aerial common sensors, talks about the differences between the Task Force ODIN and EMARSS programs, the destination of EMARSS, and the road map for deploying it.