Defense Systems
DOD awards technical services contract for DDR&E
Under the terms of the award, SRA will provide technical, financial, administrative and programmatic support and analyses for DDR&E’s research and engineering programs.
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DOD infrared surveillance project schedule in jeopardy
DOD estimates that the Space Based Infrared System program will be delayed 15 months and cost an additional $414 million to resolve flight software problems, according to a GAO report.
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Virtual Perimeter Monitoring System support contract awarded
3e Technologies International Inc. will provide surveillance and physical detection technology to the Navy and the Transportation Security Administration the contract.
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Army chemical sensors to get upgrade
ICx Technologies is on tap for the upgrade under a contract potentially worth $711 million over seven years.
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Navy outsources training center support
General Dynamics Corp. will support training programs designed for the Navy and other DOD agencies, which are overseen by the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center.
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Lt. Col. Geesey new head of MC4 product management office
Geesey will work with Defense Health Information Management System which develops electronic medical records and other health software systems.
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Navy, Alion team to develop helicopter training technology
Alion will assist the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando, Fla., in developing Mission Rehearsal Tactical Team Trainer technologies for the Navy’s SH-60B and SH-60F helicopters.
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Army awards two modeling, simulation tasks
The two five-year task orders call for SAIC to provide modeling and simulation support to the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.
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Unified DOD messaging system closer
The entire Defense Department is now close to having a single solution for DMS communications, following a recent award by SPAWAR.
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Army gets new medical CIO
Lt. Col. Hon Pak was director of Advanced Information Technology Group.
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More work needed on DOD RFIDs
Inspectors visited four Defense Logistics Agency distribution depots to examine shipments from various suppliers. RFID tags are used to automatically track supplies through the logistics system.
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Study ranks U.S. No. 1 for security attacks
The United States was the top source of distributed attack traffic, originating nearly three times as many attacks as second-place China, according to a recent study.
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Army to receive SIPRNet support from L-3
The Army will receive personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision and other items and non-personal services for SIPRNet.
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Navy awards contract for Tactical Data Link Systems
SAIC will support the Navy’s Tactical Data Link Systems, including the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, the Command and Control Processor Subsystem, the Tactical Digital Data Information Link and the Common Data Link Management System.
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Defense Threat Reduction Agency to get IT upgrade
As part of three initial task orders awarded through DOD's indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity IT Services and Support contract, Lockheed Martin will incorporate the agency’s numerous existing IT architectures into one standard, flexible and central system.
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Navy to compete Distributed Common Ground System–Navy contract
Navy officials said they are planning a limited competition, based on security restrictions, for the DCGS-N Prime Mission Product contract.
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JTRS-approved radios coming to Marines
Harris is delivering 9,300 handheld and 6,100 vehicle-mounted radios to the Marine Corps through the Consolidated Interim Single Channel Handheld Radio Program.
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MIDS-JTRS enters aircraft testing and integration phase
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has placed a $9.8 million order for pre-production sets of the next generation of aircraft radio terminals, based on the Joint Tactical Radio System software-defined radio and its waveforms.
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