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Lockheed's cyber services available on GSA products list
Lockheed Martin’s cross-domain cyber solutions, which allow data to be exchanged across all security enclaves by users with different levels of security clearance, are now available on the General Services Administration schedule of products and services.
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Mercury to assist Navy with electronic warfare research
Mercury Systems has won a three-year contract with the Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Electronic Warfare Division to assist the division with electronic warfare technology.
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Harris, AIS team to furnish satcom services to intel agency
Harris CapRock and AIS have teamed to furnish a customer in the intelligence community with satellite services through a Custom Satellite Solutions Small Business task order, the company said Feb. 12.
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Northrop's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye approved for full-rate production
The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye has successfully passed initial operational testing and has been approved for full-rate production, the Naval Air Systems Command.
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Lockheed to perform work on additional GPS III satellites
Lockheed Martin has won a $62 million contract from the Air Force to work on the Global Positioning System (GPS) III space vehicles 5 and 6.
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Rheinmetall's Gladius futuristic soldier system connects troops to network
The German Bundeswehr has placed a follow-on order for a futuristic soldier system known as Gladius designed by Rheinmetall which the country's soldiers will use in Afghanistan.
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Army RDECOM wants to know what you know on cyber
The Army's research arm has issued an RFI seeking information from industry and academia about emerging and possible future cyber techologies that the service will use to craft cyber strategy and technology investment plans for the next several decades.
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Northrop completes demo of UAS common mission management software
Northrop Grumman has successfully completed a flight demonstration of a new mission control system for unmanned aircraft designed to boost mission effectiveness and reduce training requirements.
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DISA collaboration tool doubling its capacity
The enterprise collaboration tool known as Defense Connect Online is about to double in capacity as users seek less expensive ways to conduct meetings and training in austere budget times, reports DISA.
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General Atomics to give Predator B sense and avoid capability
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has successfully flight tested a prototype of its Due Regard Radar (DRR), which supports the company's airborne airborne Sense and Avoid (SAA) architecture for the Predator B unmanned aircraft system.
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Army issues RFI for next-gen $15B ITES services contract
The Army issued a request for information on Feb. 7 for the third iteration of its Information Technology Enterprise Solutions services contract.
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DARPA looks to robotics to conquer challenge of recycling satellites
The Pentagon's research arm is pushing hard for technology advances that would enable the reusing of satellite hardware in orbit.
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Navy 4G LTE network operational on two ships headed to Persian Gulf
The Navy will send the USS Kearsarge and USS San Antonio to the Persian Gulf in late March with its brand new 4G LTE network.
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VSE gets $99M Coast Guard management services contract
VSE has won a contract to furnish program and technical support services for Security Assistance Projects administered by the U.S. Coast Guard Foreign Military Sales program.
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Looming threat of sequestration keeps Navy ships bound for Persian Gulf in port
In one of the first visible effects on force readiness of the looming threat of across-the-board budget cuts scheduled to go into effect next month, the Defense Department has delayed the deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and USS Gettysburg to the Persian Gulf.
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The challenges of designing cyber simulations
Cyber gaming as a training tool has generated controversy.
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SAIC wins $58M Army Guard enterprise IT services contract
SAIC has won a contract from the Army National Guard to furnish support for the operation and modernization of the organization's Enterprise Operations and Security Services concept and the associated IT services
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Gray Eagle unit will be assigned to each of the Army's 10 active-duty divisions
The Army is planning to significantly expand its use of the medium-altitude, long-endurance Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft by establishing a unit to operate them for each of its 10 active-duty divisions.
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All future attacks on US will include cyber element, says Panetta
Twenty-first century technology makes cyberattacks a primary threat to U.S. national security and because of this future military attacks against the United States will include a cyber element, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Feb. 6.
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