Defense Systems
Dassault buys larger stake in Thales from Alcatel-Lucent
Dassault Aviation announced last week that the company agreed to buy Alcatel-Lucent’s 20.78 percent stake in Thales for about €1.57 billion ($2.24 billion).
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Launch delayed for Air Force communications satellite
Construction glitches uncovered during testing will delay launch of the first advanced extremely high-frequency communications satellite from 2009 to 2010.
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Army to upgrade Firefinder radar systems
A joint venture between Raytheon Co. and Thales Group will upgrade Army Firefinder radar systems under a new contract.
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Aircraft test squadron gets contract support
Aecom Technology Corp. will provide support to an aircraft squadron focused on research and development under a new task order.
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Lockheed builds training and simulation muscle
Lockheed Martin Corp. is purchasing Universal Systems and Technology Inc., a provider of technology services to the Defense Department and other government agencies.
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Navy technician sentenced for computer theft
Victor Papagno sentenced to 18 months in prison and order to pay restitution for stealing 19,000 high-tech items from Naval Research Lab.
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Marines get help with training to defeat IEDs
Science Applications International Corp. will help the Marine Corps learn the basics of how to defeat improved explosive devices under a new contract.
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C4ISR Contract Watch: Navy awards contracts for F/A-18 computers, CEC production
The Navy issues two contract awards, to General Dynamics and Raytheon business units.
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Profile: JITC puts the "joint" in JTRS and other DOD systems
Only one organization can put a Defense Department-approved seal of interoperability on an information technology or communications system: the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Joint Interoperability Test Command.
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Cyber wargame highlights security challenges
Senior-level government and industry officials in a two-day cybersecurity simulation exercise that concluded December 18 said it demonstrated the importance of a cross-sector, integrated approach to cybersecurity. The simulation also illustrated some challenges the Obama administration and next Congress will face in terms of cybersecurity, they said.
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DOD RFID efforts converge
The Defense Department is moving on multiple fronts to get suppliers to comply with mandates for passive radio-frequency identification
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Army Reserves to get SIPRnet cafes
The Army Reserves has hired STG to install sites that it will use to access the Secret IP Router Network.
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DOD awards thought leadership deals totaling $260M
Six companies have won indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts from the Defense Department to improve management processes and thought leadership.
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Army approves Cisco Unified Wireless Network
The Army has listed the Cisco Unified Wireless Network package on its Information Assurance Approved Products List.
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Contract Watch: Telos leads NETCENTS integrators in 2008 buys
Telos had more than $230 million in new sales from the Air Force’s NETCENTS program in fiscal year 2008, the most of any of the program’s eight prime contractors, the company announced Dec. 17. The Ashburn, Va.-based company also announced it had received more than $100 million in new NETCENTS orders during the fourth quarter.
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Boeing gears up for DOD intelligence demand
Boeing Co. has completed its acquisition of wireless surveillance technology provider Digital Receiver Technology Inc.
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Lockheed CEO hails approval of space based defense study
At the Reuters Aerospace and Defense summit in Washington, Lockheed-Martin chief executive Robert Stevens praised Congress' approval of $5 million for an independent study of possible space-based interceptor missiles as part of U.S. anti-missile defense.
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Navy stores metadata in multimedia files
The Navy Video News Service has a new approach to storing metadata, embedding the captions and other pertinent information directly on a photo or video.
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Pollett assumes command at DISA and JTF-GNO
In his new role, Army Lt. Gen. Carroll F. Pollett will face BRAC challenges, assume responsibility for DOD's Global Information Grid operations, and serve as DOD's chief network warrior.
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