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CIO-SP3: New version of IT acquisition vehicle ready soon
IT chiefs will soon have a new updated model of the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center's governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle as the agency prepares to award two multibillion dollar contracts for IT goods and services.
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Novel contracting group can save big-time defense dollars on procurement
The Defense Department is using communal government contracting vehicles to save the military time and money.
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Budget blues force Air Force to cancel IT event
The Air Force's annual IT conference has been shelved for 2012 as event spending comes under tough government scrutiny.
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What exactly is Congress doing to undo defense sequestration?
Congress is attempting to avert mandatory budget cuts that some fear could seriously hamper the Defense Department's mission. But can members come together before it's too late?
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Cyberattacks against Iran herald new era, raise tough questions
The U.S. government will at some point need to address difficult questions about the use of cyberattacks against enemies of the state.
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Future UAVs might have two-way voice to speed communications
The U.S. military is working on improving the man-machine interfaces between unmanned aircraft operators and the aircraft they remotely fly on missions.
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Flame virus cloaked by extensive list of fake identities
The designers of the Flame cyber espionage malware used an extensive list of fake identities to register as many as 86 domains, which they used as part of their command-and-control center.
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Virtual soldier brings military training into the real world
A University of Iowa program is using virtual reality to help arm and prepare the troops of tomorrow.
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Boeing completes satcom-on-the-move demo for US, Australia
Boeing recently demonstrated a satcom-on-the-move technology product on a live Ka-band satellite network for Australia and the United States that enabled simultaneous secure videoconferencing with military radios and telephones.
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Obama's 'kill list' dictates who the drones will strike
U.S. President Barack Obama personally oversees a "kill list" of individuals selected to be the target of unmanned aerial vehicle strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia in a highly secret manner that has given rise to calls for greater transparency in the shadow war against al Qaeda.
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Phantom Eye holds promise, but has long way to go
Boeing's massive hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye UAV performed its first test flight at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center June 1 reaching an altitude of 4,080 feet and a cruising speed of 62 knots, which is short of the performance attributes the military wants it eventually to achieve.
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Will commercial space imagery policy get a makeover?
The White House will reexamine its current policy toward how the Defense Department and intelligence community use commercial imagery, which if it downplays the importance of using such imagery in a revised policy would likely further dampen the commercial imagery market.
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Navy wants help boosting coastal surveillance
The Navy wants industry and other interested parties to submit ideas for new systems and technologies for use in shore surveillance and amphibious operations.
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DOD business systems get failing grade for modernization
The Defense department is struggling with three issues in particular when it comes to implementing GAO recommendations for updating its business systems.
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Canada should let Polar Hawk recon Arctic, Northrop says
Canada has received an unsolicited proposal from Northrop Grumman to furnish three modified RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles to provide surveillance of the country's vast Arctic territories.
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Navy picks provider for COTS network and tech work
The Navy has awarded a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with an estimated value of $500 million to Iron Bow Technologies for communications and IT equipment support.
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Air Force takes corrective action, reopens bidding on NetCents 2
The Air Force has reopened the bidding for its $6.9 billion NetCents 2 products contract, according to an announcement on the FedBizOps website.
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Army places new order for nimble ground bots
The Army has placed a second order for a nimble ground robot that can explore dangerous objects and places.
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New details on Flame tie it to earlier cyberattacks
Researchers have found some similarities between Flame and Stuxnet/Duqu, while Iran says the malware was used in the April cyberattacks on its oil industry.
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