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Army transmissions office to get C4ISR upgrade
Apptis will provide overall management, engineering, integration and acquisition support for the Army's Command Center Upgrades Special Projects Office.
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DARPA awards wireless technology development contract
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to Cobham Sensor Systems to develop wireless technology for next-generation tactical radios.
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DOD to get radio software update
ITT Corp. will upgrade radio software for the Defense Department under a five-year contract that could total $62 million if all options are exercised.
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Air Force picks vendors for $600M air and space intell competition
Three contractors will compete for $600 million in software support and information analysis tasks to support the National Air and Space Intelligence Center over five years, the Air Force announced July 8.
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Marines to receive systems engineering support
QinetiQ North America will continue to assist the Marine Corps with systems engineering support under a one-year contract option worth $11.7 million.
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Cyberattacks could have been mitigated
Agency responses to cyberattacks on U.S. government sites demonstrates a need for better coordination between agency security officials and the companies that provide Internet services, experts say.
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Africa Command gets training boost from Cubic
Cubic Applications Inc. will furnish support for joint training and exercises conducted by the U.S. Africa Command under a contract worth roughly $30 million.
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SAIC vows to fight False Claims lawsuit
Science Applications International Corp. plans to strongly defend itself against a whistle-blower lawsuit involving a General Services Administration contract to support naval facility in Mississippi.
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Recent cyberattacks have little impact on U.S.
The attacks, which spiked late July 6 and early July 7, are not particularly sophisticated and can be mitigated by organizations that are prepared for them, experts say.
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Army awards contract for classified database support
CACI International Inc. has been awarded a new $34 million prime contract to continue supporting a classified U.S. Army intelligence database.
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New bill blocks fees for vendors at fault for a fed's injury
The House passed the defense authorization bill June 25 by a vote of 389-22.
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Upgraded ground robot ships out to Afghanistan
U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan will have a faster, smarter and stronger robot to assist them with their missions, according to officials at iRobot Corp.
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Dugan to take over as new DARPA director
Regina Dugan was a program manager at DARPA from 1996 to 2000, where, among other projects, she led the “Dog’s Nose Program,” which focused on developing an advanced, field-portable system for detecting the explosive content of land mines.
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Army aims to protect personnel with alert system expansion
The Army has expanded its emergency notification system for the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley, doubling the number of protected personnel at the fort to 10,000.
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Army enterprise chief outlines network modernization efforts
Gary Winkler, program executive officer for enterprise information systems at Fort Belvoir, Va., discussed a number of current initiatives, including the Logistics Modernization Program, the Army Enterprise System Integration Program and the recently concluded Network Service Center Operational Validation exercise.
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Open-source invasion requires defense contractors to form strategic plans
Sun Microsystems Federal President and Chief Operating Officer Bill Vass discusses the challenges and implications of open-source software deployments at the Defense Department.
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The new command
The creation of the Cyber Command heralds a historic transition in the evolution of the U.S. military services and also speaks to the severity of the threats that emanate from cyberspace.
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Ferguson named joint automatic ID product manager
The Army has appointed Lt. Col. Cary Ferguson as the Product Manager for Joint – Automatic Identification Technology.
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Data Packets
The Army validated its Network Service Center; the Government Accountability Office highlighted lessons learned from the canceled Future Combat Systems program; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms dominate the Paris Air Show; and a Marine Corps command in Iraq turned to wide-area network optimization during a headquarters relocation.
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