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How Boeing's Phantom Ray rose from its ghostly grave
What seemed like a risky decision for Boeing in 2007 when it chose to perfect the Phantom Ray unmanned jet fighter on its own eventually might pay off in spades for the aerospace contractor and the U.S. military.
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Army to field-test cognitive radios at NIE
The Army is testing a technology that may eliminate the need to manually set frequencies for military operations.
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New technologies will project U.S. power in Asia: Gates
The United States will use many of the latest weapons and technologies in its arsenal to maintain a strong military presence throughout Asia to protect its allies and help guard shipping lanes, said Defense Secretary Robert Gates June 4 in Singapore.
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Army chooses winners in battle of the virtual worlds
One of the winners named in the Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge is NonKin Village, in which trainers can create a virtual foreign village to help U.S. troops explore interactions with people of other cultures.
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Empire Challenge pushes network connectivity to individual soldiers
The annual exercise puts new systems through their paces and ensures their interoperability with existing U.S. and coalition equipment.
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Is DOD on its way to becoming a 'world-class' buyer?
Defense Department official Shay Assad is digging into what defense agencies are paying for products and services to determine how to get as much possible from the money they spend.
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VanRoekel leaving FCC to join USAID, newspaper says
Steven VanRoekel, who left Microsoft in 2009 to take a high-profile position to revamp the online presence of the Federal Communications Commission, is moving on, according to The Hill newspaper.
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Senior Army acquisition official resigns
Michael O'Neill abruptly resigned from his position as assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition.
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DOD, VA health record effort makes notable progress
Navy Capt. Michael Weiner says the effort to integrate DOD and VA health records is making progress, cites non-technological obstacles.
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Aneesh Chopra on TV's lessons for real life
Does he have all seven seasons of MacGyver on DVD?
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Dempsey says military must adjust to viral reality
President Obama's nominee for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said June 1 that U.S. armed forces must be able to adapt to viral events such as the so-called Arab Spring.
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Subcommittee puts Emarss in a funding tailspin
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has proposed cutting $524 million from a key manned aerial reconnaissance program operated by the Army.
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Digital Conflict: Lockheed tight-lipped on details of cyberattack
Some have criticized Lockheed Martin for not disclosing details about the large-scale cyberattack the company experienced in May. But the company might have good reason to do this.
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Army readies on-demand imagery tool for battlefield use
The Army will deploy this summer in-theater DARPA's Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team system to enable soldiers to download on-demand video from the service's aircraft onto mobile computing devices.
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Will EPA's Lisa Schlosser become federal deputy CIO?
Chris Dorobek, editor of DorobekInsider.com, reports that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is set to name EPA exec Lisa Schlosser to be his deputy CIO.
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RSA tokens thought to be behind second defense contractor hack
Information that could enable attackers to break the RSA SecurID token is believed to have been used in attacks against major defense contractor L-3 Communications, which followed a similar breach against Lockheed Martin.
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DOD needs to use public, human intell more in Afghanistan
The Defense Science Board says the U.S. military should quit relying so much on electronic intelligence and expand to get publicly available info and develop human intelligence.
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Aircraft buying plan would double UAVs by 2020
A new 30-year aircraft buying plan submitted by the Defense Department to Congress predicts that the number of unmanned aerial vehicles in the U.S. arsenal will double over the next nine years.
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Twitter's Costolo becomes Obama adviser
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joins telecom advisory panel.
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