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Lockheed to build next-gen air control system for Jordanian Air Force
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $26 million foreign military sales contract to upgrade the Royal Jordanian Air Force’s national air command, control and communications infrastructure.
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Air Force to buy full-motion video receivers from L-3 West
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLMC), the new organization managing the service’s networks under the recent reorganization of Air Force Material Command, will buy full-motion video receivers and interim contractor support from L-3 Communications Systems-West in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Harris receives new order for Army satellite terminals
Harris has received a new $50.5 million order from the Army for next-generation satellite communications terminals under the service's Modernization of Enterprise Terminals program.
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DOD top line budget figure for the Military Intelligence Program decreases for second year in a row
The Defense Department released today the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) appropriated top line budget for fiscal 2012, and the figure has declined for the second year in a row.
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Air Force awards $851M engineering support contract to small businesses
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded an engineering and technical advistory and assistance services contract worth up to $851 million to five small businesses.
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Cyber warriors training hard to defeat adversaries, Army cyber leaders said at AUSA
The Army is ramping up its cyber operations capabilities with training exercises, hardened cybersecurity, cyber weapons development and new policies.
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NATO to spend upwards of $2.7B on C4ISR, comms projects
The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency tentatively plans to spend $2.7 billion on C4ISR and communication capabilities over the next 18 months to support its missions and operations.
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DOD begins mobile device management procurement
The Defense Information System Agency has issued a request for proposls seeking mobile device management capabilities and a dedicated mobile application store.
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ViaSat to supply broadband services to military aircraft
ViaSat has won a multimillion dollar contract from the U.S. government to supply broadband satellite services to support military aircraft in flight.
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Lockheed adds persistent surveillance, penetrating radar offerings
Lockheed Martin has added a persistent surveillance option to its Dragon series of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.
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U.S. to spend $1.4B strengthening overseas Predator drone base
The United States is investing upwards of $1.4 billion in new funds to expand and strengthen its premier military base in the war on terrorism located in the Horn of Africa.
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L-3 wins contract to supply VideoScout to Navy, Marines
L-3 Communications has won a contract potentially worth $85 million over four years to furnish the Marine Corps and the Navy with technology and support for its VideoScout intelligence data processing system.
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Advanced optics give ground forces operational advantage
Acquisition of night-vision devices by adversaries means that the United States needs to develop advanced technologies that can help soldiers continue to “own the night.”
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A numbers game: Adding up Army data center consolidation
COL James Parks III, chief of the data center consolidation initiative in the Army’s CIO/G-6 office, discusses the Army’s progress in consolidating data centers and reducing the number of applications in use.
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COMSATCOM continues to play critical role in supporting military
Faced with a shortfall of on-orbit capacity from military satellite systems, the Pentagon continues to rely heavily on commercial satellite communications to meet the bandwidth demands and operational requirements of deployed U.S. forces.
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DOD works to protect essential collaboration technology
Across the DOD, videoconferencing is now widely used to facilitate real-time decision making for command and control applications, as well as to improve combat effectiveness all the way up to the tactical edge.
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ITES-3H part of Army's strategy to consolidate $5B in contracts
Service seeks commercial, off-the-shelf products compatible with net-centric infrastructure.
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High-throughput satellites are the solution
Recent budget constraints, the rapidly changing profile of end users data and the proliferation of airborne communications-on-the-move systems make the new high-throughput satellite (HTS) networks now being launched an attractive augmentation to the government’s existing resources.
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DOD cloud computing strategy a public-private collaboration
The Defense Department's strategy seeking to clarify the transition to cloud computing has cast a net wide enough to include commercial solutions.
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