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Tech refresh brings HD video to Aegis
Advances in commercial technology for high-definition digital video are being incorporated into the Navy’s Aegis combat system.
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Director view: Gregory Garcia, Director, 754th Electronic Systems Group, USAF
Gregory Garcia, director of the 754th Electronic Systems Group, which oversees the Air Force’s Network Centric Solutions contract, talks about the strategy behind NetCents-2 and his expectations for the new contract.
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Army adjusts network strategy for battlefield command posts
One challenge that Army officials face is creating a single enterprise for battle command applications that can follow a brigade when it deploys outside the continental United States.
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Interview: Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, Army CIO
Army CIO Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson discusses how the Army is coping without flash drives; how he intends to improve data quality and governance; and what he has on the agenda for fiscal 2010 priorities.
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Data Packets
The Air Force has unveiled a blueprint for fielding an entire family of unmanned vehicles during the next 40 years and established a centralized authority to oversee all network directory and e-mail services in a move to boost security.
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Sorenson on right track
The command post of the future is still a work in progress. But there’s no question, it’s the right vision.
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DARPA names Gabriel deputy director
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Kaigham “Ken” Gabriel to serve as its new deputy director, the agency announced.
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Navy taps Raytheon for radar concept studies
Raytheon Co. will perform concept studies that the Navy will use to resolve gaps in its air and missile defense radar (AMDR) capabilities under a $9.9 million contract.
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DOD may ban Twitter, Facebook, other social media
The military is once again considering blocking social-media sites, for security reasons.
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Navy awards command and control support contract
SAIC will provide prime command and control solutions to the Defense Department under a five-year contract valued at more than $196 million.
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Myers to head Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Kenneth A. Myers III has been selected to serve as the director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Fort Belvoir, the Defense Department announced July 27.
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DISA OKs collaborative site for classified use
DISA's Forge.mil is designed for easy information sharing and cooperative software development and will operate on the Defense Department’s classified SIPRNet, the agency says.
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Joint venture to expand fuel-cell technology for military apps
UltraCell and Protonex Technology Corp. are working together to expand fuel-cell technology for military applications.
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DOD analysts tailor battlefield intell for tactical units
U.S. joint forces and coalition partners participated in a coordinated exercise this month aimed at figuring out how best to coordinate vast amounts of intelligence data gathered by satellites, drones and manned aircraft.
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U.K. Defence Ministry awards air surveillance deal
IBM Corp. will continue maintaining an air surveillance system for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence under a five-year, $38 million (23 million pounds sterling) contract.
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Forge.mil among top 10 dot-gov sites
Government Computer News names the top government Web sites that best embrace Web. 2.0 practices.
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DOD helps nurture students’ interest in cybersecurity
A new program tries to find young people that could meet the government's need for more highly skilled cybersecurity professionals.
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Air Force picks three for $495M force protection contract
Three contractors will compete to provide the Air Force with force protection security services under a $495 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract.
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Rábago to update policies for acquisition directorate
The new head of the Coast Guard acquisitions unit said he wants to make permanent the relationships between the new unit and the Homeland Security and Defense departments.
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