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Army brings real-time weather to artillery targeting
The Meteorological Measuring Set Profiler will give Army artillerymen a 'nowcast' of weather at target locations by integrating data from multiple sources.
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Air Force to develop environmentally friendly propulsion systems
General Dynamics Information Technology has won a new contract to assist the Air Force in developing environmentally friendly propulsion systems.
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Army commands software support for C4ISR
Under the contract, Northrop Grumman Corp. will work with the Headquarters of the U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army to support the command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems that serve Army, joint, coalition and NATO operations.
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Air Force reconfigures communications satellite program
The Air Force has significantly cut back its Transformational Communication Satellite program and delayed the launch of the first satellite.
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TRANSCOM begins transition to SOA
Transportation Command has begun the rollout of a five-year program that will transform it from an organization dependent on old and slow stovepiped systems and applications to one that uses single-click, Web-based enterprise services to get things done.
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Army installations to get IP network upgrades
Verizon Business will begin upgrading voice and data networks at Aberdeen Proving Ground and four other Army installations under multiple task orders.
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Navy awards threat-simulation contract
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. will continue to support the Navy’s threat-simulation activities under a new contract.
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Sierra Army Depot inventory system goes live
The Sierra Army Depot in northern California has launched a new inventory tracking system from Savi Technology designed to cut operational costs and improve efficiency.
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Air National Guard boosts training capabilities
Alion Science and Technology Corp. will help provide realistic, interactive theater training environments for the Air National Guard.
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RFID helps Army better track tank parts
The Army will have a clearer idea where all the parts to its broken tanks are, following a deal BAE Systems recently signed with ClearOrbit.
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DOD grapples with cyberattack coordination
The Defense Department wants to normalize its cyberwarfare operations, but first must come to grips with how to distinguish between cyberwarfare and other overlapping efforts.
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Navy pushes ahead with information fusion
General Dynamics Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. have won contracts from the Navy to compete for nearly $200 million in research and development opportunities associated with information fusion.
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InfoWeapons SolidDNS receives DISA certification
The Defense Information Systems Agency Joint Interoperability Test Command has concluded that InfoWeapons SolidDNS meets the requirements to qualify as a certified IPv6-ready device, providing organizations with the ability to run an IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack Domain Name Service from a single appliance.
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HMD upgrade to benefit Army's Land Warrior
The monocular HMD displays various video, computer, sight, map, GPS and other data for viewing in field, urban, cave or mountain environments in daylight or night.
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JTRS on track for milestones
Lockheed Martin Corp. officials said at the Surface Navy Association Symposium this week that the company is on track to meet key milestones of the Joint Tactical Radio System program.
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Air Force to create continuity of operations system
The Air Force has tapped Alion Science and Technology to help it create a continuity of operations system.
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Air Force awards Globemaster support work
The company will continue to provide logistics support for the C-17 Globemaster cargo aircraft.
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DOD falling short on RFID, IUID and logistics plans, says GAO
The Defense Department is not doing as well as it should with its new Logistics Roadmap, and is having difficulty implementing item unique identification and radio frequency identification, two key logistics technologies, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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Navy plans ship combat systems upgrades
Raytheon Co. will be responsible for engineering the platforms needed for the Navy’s ship self-defense systems under a new contract.
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