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Army braces for aerial intel surge in Afghanistan
The Army must figure out new and efficient ways to process data gathered from unmanned aerial vehicle sensors and cameras as it begins operations in Afghanistan with its first medium-altitude, long endurance MQ-1C Gray Eagle and also its first full-spectrum combat aviation brigade with manned and unmanned aircraft.
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Military wants to move cognitive radio from concept to reality
The Joint Tactical Radio Systems office responsible for developing radio components and software that enable the military services to communicate with each other on the battlefield is moving closer to achieving the concept of cognitive radio, reports the Army.
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Pentagon gets help with cyber crime fighting effort
The Defense Department has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract potentially worth up to $454 million to help it thwart a wide range of cyber criminals determined to target the department and its components.
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Acquisition abuse drives DOD to reassess commercial purchase rules
The Defense Department has proposed changes to commercial of-a-type acquisition rules that may drastically impact the federal marketplace and hopefully right the pricing problems officials are facing.
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Special Ops forces seek mobile battlefield net
The Special Operations Command is seeking input from industry on how to construct a wireless network to connect ground troops and equipment such as vehicles and unmanned aircraft.
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Naval IT Day to spotlight major enterprise initiatives
Defense Systems' staff will be on hand May 3 to furnish detailed coverage of the 11th Annual Naval IT Day.
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Military airship programs plagued by wide range of problems
The Defense Department has invested more than $1 billion in at least nine airship programs across the military services in an effort to provide persistent surveillance to ground troops, but so far has almost nothing to show in operational airships.
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Air Force ground control stations get secure info-sharing boost
Boeing has delivered a tactical cross-domain solution designed to boost secure information sharing to General Atomics for integration into the ground control stations used for Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Army gets helping hand with cloud architecture
Quality Business Engineering will provide cloud computing architecture and engineering services to the service during an 18-month award.
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Massive DISA global network-services contract coming down to the wire
Multibillion-dollar contract will provide for day-to-day operations of GIG networks.
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House tries to breathe life into Global Hawk Block 30 program
The House Armed Services Committee has designated $260 million in its mark-up of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013 for the Air Force to continue operating its Block 30 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Concept from WWII dazzle ships being applied to spoof facial recognition scanners
An artist finds that the same approach used in World War I to confound the rangefinders on attacking ships will prevent a facial scanner from recognizing you.
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Data tool would help alert Navy to high-seas threats
The Navy is seeking a real-time analytical tool that can sift through data from radars related to maritime traffic and alert naval officers to hostile threats at sea.
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Army cyber pros pitch in with network evaluation
The Army Cyber Command maintains a team of specialists to help review and test equipment for network vulnerabilities at the service's Network Integration Evaluation.
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Army moves to enterprise progressing, but not without challenges
The Army is looking to life beyond BlackBerry, and possibly beyond separate network classifications.
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Flexrotor UAV scheduled for flight control upgrade
The Office of Naval Research has awarded Aerovel a contract to develop the flight controls component for the Flexrotor vertical take-off-and-landing unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Afghan cyber war heats up with Taliban site hack
Unidentified hackers crippled the Taliban's main website twice last week, replacing its usual victorious rhetoric with images of executions and also support for the Afghan government and security forces in English, Arabic and Pashto.
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Air Force readies second AEHF satellite for launch
The Air Force will launch its second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite May 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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DOD explores alternatives to traditional acquisition beyond fixed price
DOD is taking a multi-faceted approach to overhauling the way it buys goods and services in the face of dwindling funds.
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