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Navy modernizes SIPRNet and NIPRNet for barges

Eight companies will deliver barge modernization services including network upgrades.

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Marine Corps Leaders announce new forward deployable cyber force

The Marine Corps is creating internal defense measures teams of data and cyber warriors to protect expeditionary Marine networks.

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Marine Corps revamps its geospatial intel database

Marine Corps advances new Infrastructure Reset Strategy for geospatial intelligence data systems.

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Latest Navy Locker app guides sailors through new uniform regs

The recent NWU Type III rules have been input into the OPNAV Uniform App, which gives sailors guidance on their uniform and a way to have their feedback heard.

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Army tests new targeting system in Alaska

JETS seeks to give forward observers the ability to call in precision fire with a lightweight package.

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DARPA hypersonic effort accelerates

The research agency awards contracts to demonstrate a hybrid hypersonic engine.

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Video Report 10-26-17: Army acquires new Mounted Family of Computer Systems

The Army's new ruggedized computers use digital touchscreens, common software and hardware and connect with mobile devices

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Navy Knifefish undersea drone detects numerous mines in test

An Navy undersea drone is expected to be operational in the next few months after successfully completing contractor trials.

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Army transforms its fleet of bomb-detecting robots to common chassis, standards

A new deal with Endeavor Robotics is designed to speed the Army’s move to new ground robots built upon a common chassis.

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Army looks towards gaming & big data to create prepared future force

At a TRADOC Mad Scientist Presentation, Dr. Rob Smith discussed the ways in which the Army could take lessons learned from the sports and videogame industries in harnessing data.

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Navy preps Triton drone system for 2018 deployment

The Navy is testing the new unmanned air system, to be deployed in Guam next year.

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Army fast-tracks new man-packable counter-drone EW weapons

The Army’s Rapid Equipping Force is accelerating development of EW weapons to jam and disable enemy small drone threats.

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Navy adds millimeter wave radar to AGM-88B anti-radiation missile

A Navy upgrade to an air-to-ground missile designed to target mobile enemy air defenses gives the weapon new millimeter wave radar.

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A new polyurethane-based material could mean self-hardening, almost impenetrable helmets

The Army Research Laboratory has developed a polyurethane elastomer that withstands high-speed micro bullets, and could be used for helmets, face shields, and vests.

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Army says data consolidation improves security and cloud migration

An ongoing Army effort to modernize AKO and other data systems is accelerating a service-wide data consolidation plan.

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OPED: new conformal batteries expedite moves to a digital soldier

New conformal batteries better enable soldier-mounted tech such as computers, navigation system and night vision.

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Firm develops rugged navigation device for a GPS-denied environment

The Army and DOD are working with industry to engineer networking technologies able to connect combat forces in an environment where GPS systems are jammed or disabled.

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Army seeks next-gen targeted EW attack technology for drones

A recent Army RFI looks for mature EW technologies to mount on the wing of a Gray Eagle drone.

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Video Report 10-19-17: Deputy Secretary of Defense Memo Speeds Cloud Migration

A new memo from the Deputy Secretary of Defense directs the services to expedite migration to cloud technologies.

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Concerns mount over spread of hypersonic technology

RAND study calls the emerging missile capability "destabilizing.”