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Tactical aerostat designed for high winds deploying to Afghanistan

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Defense Intelligence Agency to hold industry day

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"Magicians" reborn as Navy's first squadron to operate manned and unmanned aircraft

Maritime strike squadron will fly both the MH-60R Seahawk and the MQ-8B Fire Scout.

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Power projection in cyber space

How many technical glitches in the digital world are actually the result of cyber attacks we didn't know about?

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DARPA looking for a "clean slate" for MANETs

Goal is to investigate radical concepts for 20X increase in MANET size.

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Let the protests begin

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Analyzing large data stories focus of Air Force contract

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World's first aircraft system powered by laser over fiber flying this week

LaserMotive has unveiled what it says is the world’s first, tethered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft system powered by laser over optical fiber.

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DISA announces date of 2013 Forecast to Industry

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Army moves to tighten quick reaction development

Stephen Kreider talks about moving the PEO IEW&S enterprise to a system of systems architecture and bringing its quick-reaction technology development programs into a more structured construct as the war in Afghanistan winds down.

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Adapting the radio development process to meet Army acquisition strategies

The U.S. Army’s recently released Equipment Modernization Strategy sends a strong message about the new way of doing business at the Pentagon.

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Putting the cyber threat domain into context

Things are rapidly changing in the cyber threat domain.

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Simplifying control of unmanned systems

Military and industry researchers are working on ways of simplifying the control of unmanned systems as the number and types used by the armed services continue to grow.

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Navy steams ahead with virtual desktop technology

By upgrading the computers and software in its classrooms and training centers the U.S. Navy is modernizing how it trains its personnel.

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Cyber winners in the fiscal 2013 budget

Though Pentagon planners are committed to making some hard line-item choices in their budgets in the coming years, they got it right when it came to accelerating the funding for cyber defense in fiscal year 2014 so it at least can have a fighting chance of keeping pace with technical and IT developments in the commercial/consumer world.

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Joint information and enterprise capabilities top DISA's priorities.

DISA Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins Jr. discusses enterprise services, mobile device management and security, big data analytics and the effect of sequestration on DISA programs.

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Sequestration slows the pace of data center consolidation

Efforts by the Army and Navy to meet the Defense Department’s mandate to consolidate data centers have been slowed by the automatic budget cuts that took effect earlier this year – an irony considering that the process is one of the Pentagon’s top priorities for saving money in a tight budget environment.