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Moving in together aids intel integration in UK
Place matters -- that’s the lesson British officials learned from efforts to fuse diverse intelligence capabilities into a single, collaborative entity.
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Textron offers new workgroup software
Textron’s Overwatch division this week introduced new software designed to allow users in small teams to easily share and manage geospatial data and databases on a shared local network.
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Thinklogical debuts high bandwidth router
Thinklogical unveiled what the company says is the world’s largest and highest bandwidth KVM and video router this week.
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General Dynamics offers new classified/unclassified laptop
General Dynamics has introduced a new laptop that allows users to operate on both classified and unclassified networks at the same time.
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Cybersecurity month sparks renewed calls for collaboration
A general theme echoed by government officials speaking about the importance of October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month seems to be calls for partnership to secure U.S. interests in cyberspace, particularly critical infrastructure.
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Sequestration would hamper intelligence integration, say DOD officials
Intelligence officials say the looming across-the-board budget cuts due in January would make efforts at integration slower and more expensive.
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DOD support of student 'hackerspaces' meets resistance
With some high schools throughout the nation participating in Defense Department funded school programs designed to mimic hackerspaces, some members of existing organizations are objecting to the effort on the grounds that the military should stay out of the hacker realm.
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Network architecture improvements designed to plug leaks
The new network architecture for the intelligence community will include a change intended to plug leaks: pushing security downward from the network level to the data level, intelligence officials say.
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Intelligence officials sidestep concerns about DigitalGlobe/GeoEye merger
Intelligence officials attending the GEOINT 2012 Symposium on Oct. 9 sidestepped concerns about whether the merger of the two major providers of commercial satellite imagery would hurt the ability to collect needed intelligence.
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Common intelligence community cloud to go live in March, says Clapper
Data users in the intelligence community will have access to a common desktop and common cloud-based network starting in March, says DNI James Clapper.
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L-3, Virginia Tech partner on cybersecurity center
L-3 has established a National Security Solutions Center at the Virginia Tech Research Center in Arlington, Va., designed to enhance the partnership and collaboration between the company and the university in the joint development of cybersecurity solutions for military and government applications.
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Air Force launches third GPS Block IIF satellite
The Air Force successfully launched the third Global Positioning System IIF satellite on Oct. 4 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV-Medium rocket, the service said.
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Army works to develop tactical smart grid
The Army has conducted a proof of concept for a smart grid that might support future tactical operations in a much more efficient manner than is currently done, according to an Army news story.
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Cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure on the rise
A series of targeted DDoS attacks against U.S. financial institutions is being proclaimed by a few cybersecurity professionals as the biggest of its kind to hit the country.
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Network validation effort sets stage for Army’s upcoming NIE 13.1
It’s no easy task getting the communications equipment on hundreds of vehicles ready for the Army’s semiannual Network Integration Evaluation.
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Air Force wants better knowledge of high-altitude airborne LIDAR capabilities
The Air Force is seeking white papers that would help it determine the capabilities of industry to produce Airborne Light Detection and Ranging systems and products and determine a forward path for expanded use of the technology in tactical and strategic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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GEOINT 2012 to focus on how innovation can give decisive advantage
The GEOINT 2012 Symposium will be held Oct. 8-11 in Orlando, Fla., and Defense Systems staff will be on hand providing live show-daily coverage of the military's most important event that addresses the world of collecting, tagging and disseminating geospatial intelligence.
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Raytheon gets $164M Army contract for AEHF tactical terminals
The Army has awarded a three-year, $164 million contract to Raytheon to deliver ground terminals for Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite communications.
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Army awards $7B contract to 12 for software/systems engineering work
The Army has awarded indefinite-delivery, indefinited-quantity contracts to 12 large systems integrators to compete for upwards of $7 billion in software and systems engineering services work.
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