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Global Hawk has staunch defender in Congress
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), a member of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, says he will recommend continuing funding for the Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aircraft, which the Air Force plans to put into storage as a key part of a comprehensive budget-cutting effort.
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DARPA scouts for big-data fixes
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to call on the applied-mathematics, computer-science and data-visualization communities to develop big-data analytics for warfighters.
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Nuclear force in need of C3 improvements, STRATCOM's Kehler says
STRATCOM's command, control and communications network is functioning at a less than an optimum level, Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Military services to get new digital imaging systems
GE will provide the Defense Logistics Agency with a digital imaging network-picture archive, communication system and components.
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Winners and losers in the fiscal 2013 budget
It's been several weeks since the release of the fiscal 2013 defense budget, and heads are certainly still spinning in the Pentagon. Here are some of the winners and losers at each of the services.
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Big data poses big challenge for military intelligence
As sensors continue to generate enormous volumes of data, DOD planners are struggling with techniques to ensure such data remains useful to warfighters.
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Who will get to fly Navy UAVs?
The Navy has decided that unmanned aerial vehicles weighing more than 55 pounds will be operated as adjuncts to manned aircraft systems.
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The new arms race
Criminals, terrorists and rogue nation states are attacking computers and devices that connect to the Internet at an unprecedented rate.
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Pakistan rejected offer by US to scale back UAV attacks
U.S. officials offered key concessions to Pakistan's intelligence chief in January regarding the use of unmanned aerial vehicles against al-Qaeda in the southwest Asian nation in an effort to regain the trust of Pakistani officials, but the offers were rejected.
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Watch out, China, US spy drones headed your way
The Australian government is considering allowing the United States to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to a coral atoll in the Indian Ocean where they might conduct surveillance missions of that ocean and also the South China Sea.
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Small businesses in cyberattack bull's-eye
A report by security experts at Symantec says small businesses and their owners are becoming a priority target for computer hackers.
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Military training suffices for cyber qualifications, says Navy CIO
The Navy will give the same weight to military training completed in the IT and cyber fields that it does for commercial certification, said Terry Halvorsen, the Navy's CIO.
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Commercial satcom remains vital to military
The Defense Department's next-generation space systems alone cannot meet projected requirements for wideband communications.
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DOD vs. DHS: Who should mind the US' cyber defense?
A Senate budget hearing on the Defense Department's Strategic and Cyber commands became a duel over how the nation's cybersecurity should be structured.
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US cyber defense situation looks grim
The United States should call out Beijing for its relentless global hacking on the world stage, said an analyst at the Air Force Association's cyber conference.
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Intel community cloud faces bigger problems than security
Surprisingly, there are other more pressing concerns and barriers for intelligence agencies moving to the cloud.
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Nothing proprietary in Navy CANES contract
The Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Service project to upgrade shipboard communications is off to a brisk start following an initial contract award in February.
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Robotics juggernaut seen as unstoppable
The use and proliferation of robotic systems by the U.S. military will likely continue unabated because they offer far more advantages than disadvantages.
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Press delete: Sandia's idea for nuclear-powered UAV not practical
A research project by Sandia National Laboratories to create a nuclear-powered unmanned aerial vehicle that could stay aloft for days without refueling was eventually cast aside because "political realities" would not allow its development.
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