Defense Systems
Navy outsources training center support
General Dynamics Corp. will support training programs designed for the Navy and other DOD agencies, which are overseen by the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center.
Defense Systems
Lt. Col. Geesey new head of MC4 product management office
Geesey will work with Defense Health Information Management System which develops electronic medical records and other health software systems.
Defense Systems
Navy, Alion team to develop helicopter training technology
Alion will assist the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando, Fla., in developing Mission Rehearsal Tactical Team Trainer technologies for the Navy’s SH-60B and SH-60F helicopters.
Defense Systems
Army awards two modeling, simulation tasks
The two five-year task orders call for SAIC to provide modeling and simulation support to the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.
Defense Systems
Unified DOD messaging system closer
The entire Defense Department is now close to having a single solution for DMS communications, following a recent award by SPAWAR.
Defense Systems
More work needed on DOD RFIDs
Inspectors visited four Defense Logistics Agency distribution depots to examine shipments from various suppliers. RFID tags are used to automatically track supplies through the logistics system.
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Army gets new medical CIO
Lt. Col. Hon Pak was director of Advanced Information Technology Group.
Defense Systems
Study ranks U.S. No. 1 for security attacks
The United States was the top source of distributed attack traffic, originating nearly three times as many attacks as second-place China, according to a recent study.
Defense Systems
Army to receive SIPRNet support from L-3
The Army will receive personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision and other items and non-personal services for SIPRNet.
Defense Systems
Navy awards contract for Tactical Data Link Systems
SAIC will support the Navy’s Tactical Data Link Systems, including the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, the Command and Control Processor Subsystem, the Tactical Digital Data Information Link and the Common Data Link Management System.
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Defense Threat Reduction Agency to get IT upgrade
As part of three initial task orders awarded through DOD's indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity IT Services and Support contract, Lockheed Martin will incorporate the agency’s numerous existing IT architectures into one standard, flexible and central system.
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Navy to compete Distributed Common Ground System–Navy contract
Navy officials said they are planning a limited competition, based on security restrictions, for the DCGS-N Prime Mission Product contract.
Defense Systems
MIDS-JTRS enters aircraft testing and integration phase
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has placed a $9.8 million order for pre-production sets of the next generation of aircraft radio terminals, based on the Joint Tactical Radio System software-defined radio and its waveforms.
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JTRS-approved radios coming to Marines
Harris is delivering 9,300 handheld and 6,100 vehicle-mounted radios to the Marine Corps through the Consolidated Interim Single Channel Handheld Radio Program.
Defense Systems
Navy awards continuing contract for CNI support
Under the contract, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will continue to provide engineering, design and integrated logistics services in support of the Common Network Interface program.
Defense Systems
STRATCOM chief of staff gets nod for DISA directorship
Army Major General Carroll F. Pollett has been nominated for the directorship of the Defense Information Systems Agency, and command of Joint Task Force – Global Network Operations.
Defense Systems
DOD overlooks key security issues, GAO says
Government Accountability Office reports that as the Defense Department consolidated two command centers some security threats weren't considered.
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Military voters can cast ballots online
The Overseas Vote Foundation has released an online tool to give U.S. military personnel and other citizens living overseas quick access to the Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot.
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