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The Defense Department is rethinking its traditional emphasis on using commercial software. The Army has started a procurement competition aimed at fostering new applications for use in the military community. And the Navy has fallen behind on a business systems upgrade.
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Agencies put geospatial intell under one roof
Defense and civilian agencies are banding together in an effort to furnish ground troops with real-time information that can help them prevail in combat and prevent casualties.
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Army explores new paths to secure communications
Army officials are busy hammering out a framework to support secure communications in the next decade.
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Coding errors open thousands of new security holes each year
Research money is needed to develop the new tools and techniques to counter the threat posed by programming errors in software that create vulnerabilities that criminals, terrorists and the militaries of rogue nation states can exploit.
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Navy lays course for Second Fleet migration to NMCI
The Navy’s Second Fleet Commander will use the Navy Marine Corps Intranet to support its newly established Maritime Operations Center in a move to further collaboration and boost cybersecurity capabilities.
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Building smarter soldier sensor systems
A new generation of sensors, high-capacity data networks and integrated digital technologies have finally begun to deliver on the promise of putting critical information about enemy location and intent in the hands of warfighters.
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How competition works for the JTRS radio upgrade
Col. John Zavarelli, program manager of the JTRS Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit Radios, tells how the competitive acquisition strategy for joint tactical radio systems is reaping substantial benefits.
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Netcom focuses on enhancing network service centers
Maj. Gen. Susan Lawrence, commanding general of the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command and 9th Signal Command, discusses lessons learned from Operation Validation and next steps for Network Service Centers despite staff shortages and budgetary challenges.
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DOD looks to industry for best technologies to help combat troops
The Defense Department wants industry to lead the way to quickly acquire the tools of tomorrow’s trade.
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Air Force awards combat ID systems work
Raytheon Co. will provide computers used for combat identification to the Air Force under a new contract worth up to $100 million.
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Army to get network boost at Fort Benning
LGS will provide installation, integration and professional network services to the Army under an $11.7 million delivery order that could be worth as much as $30.7 million if all options are exercised.
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Air Force to get state-of-the-art video information system
NCI Information Systems will design and build a state-of-the-art video information system for the Air Force under a task order valued at approximately $12.7 million.
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Army allows three to vie for forensic task orders
American Systems Corp., Analytic Services Inc. and Ideal Innovations Inc., have won a multiple award contract to compete for approximately $145 million in task orders to provide forensic services to the Army.
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GAO finds DOD contractors have made progress on ethics
Some Defense Department contractors and DOD itself have made progress with ethics programs, but improvements are still needed, GAO reports.
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Marines arrange support for mobile operations centers
A General Dynamics unit will furnish the Marine Corps with on-the-ground operations equipment, networks and technical support for the force’s mobile Combat Operations Center (COC) program.
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Task order for Fort Bragg BRAC work awarded
NCI Information Systems will increase its assistance in the installation of new data center facilities at Fort Bragg, N.C., under a second task order worth approximately $4.2 million. Earlier this month, NCI won a $48.9 million Base Realignment and Closing task order.
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Web 2.0 review could lead to restricted use of social networking in DOD
A review on how social media should be used at the Defense Department will likely lead to a policy that allows the use of Web 2.0 tools with restrictions due to security concerns, according to a DOD spokesman.
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DOD maps out infrastructure to support network-centric force
DOD's Global Information Grid will require an overhaul to support the department’s vision of a force in which information is a strategic component for operations.
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Military grapples with missing links to its global network
Enabling network-centric operations will require a broad set of standardized policies to ensure that systems interoperate and that the proper policies accompany the information as it is handed off from one domain to another.
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