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Land Warrior Systems
15-month deployment of 240 units ended spring 2008. Next-generation deployment of 1,000 units due for early 2009.
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The digitized battlefield
If survivability is the major goal of any system designed to be carried by soldiers into combat, the Army’s Land Warrior system has demonstrated its qualifications.
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All solutions go
After three years of wrangling, Defense Department and civilian agencies are finally digging into the Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contract.
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Battlefield satcom
When the 3rd Infantry Division outran its ability to erect line-of-sight communication antennas during the charge to Baghdad, losing its terrestrial radio capacity, the planners knew something needed to change.
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Army Lt. Gen Ann Dunwoody confirmed
Army Lt. Gen Ann Dunwoody became the first female four-star general in the U.S. military after the Senate confirmed her by unanimous consent July 23. She will head Army Materiel Command (AMC), based at Fort Belvoir, Va.
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FCS robot gets ready for battlefield
iRobot, is on track to be one of the first efforts from the Defense Department’s Future Combat Systems project to bear fruit.
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Director View | Framework formed by best practices
The Defense-wide Information Assurance Program (DIAP) is leading a holistic approach to IA risk management that includes codifying best practices from across the Defense Department and developing a compliance and enforcement plan.
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Unmanned supply helicopter demonstrated
Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace have demonstrated to the Army and Marine Corps the feasibility of transporting supplies to ground troops by an unmanned helicopter
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Navy begins test of tube-launched UAV
A Navy rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle designed to be fired from a sonobuoy launch tube will enter what is planned to be a final phase of testing under a $10.5 million contract award to Lite Machines, of West Lafayette, Ind.
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Instant picture
Instead of a visual scan that can take several minutes with a periscope, the camera can provide an instant full view of the surface.
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Army renews contract for munition logistics automation
The Army Joint Munitions Command has renewed a contract with Savi Technology to continue developing and supporting a government-owned software system that handles depot-level ammunition logistics.
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Waved off
Once again, errors in the procurement process have thrown a major Air Force program’s future into doubt. And critics say that the Government Accountability Office report’s damning tone in this case indicates a wider problem in defense procurement.
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GAO eyes global strike ISR
If the Defense Department wants to hit targets across the world with rapidly deployable weapons, it must better synchronize weapons development with the pace of advancements in ISR technologies.
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Game processor in warfighting apps
The advanced processor technology that lets Sony PlayStation 3 jet jockeys blow enemy fighters out of the sky in games such as “Warhawk” might soon help real warfighters do the same in combat.
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Debriefing: Joint Space Operations Center's departing director, Col. Stephen Whiting
Defense Systems contributor Sami Lais spoke recently with Air Force Col. Stephen Whiting, former JSpOC commander and director. In June, Whiting handed over command of JSpOC to Col. Richard Doltz after being selected for the Chief of Staff Air Force Fellows program.
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Neural nets find niche
Artificial neural networks are close to being deployed on Navy ships as part of a firedetection system, based on work that the Naval Research Laboratory oversees.
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Africom builds cooperation with collaboration
Challenges inherent in Africom’s mission — focused more on promoting regional security than warfighting — call for a somewhat different structure and create a challenge for Africom’s C4 operations.
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Reaching out to tech firms
Each year, new network-centric technologies vying for command-level attention get a tryout at the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration.
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Army prepares test of new wireless war game gear
In August, the Army will conduct its first functional field test of a wireless tactical training system that it will eventually embed in Future Combat Systems vehicles and weapons systems.
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