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Gates: Larger workforce crucial to acquisition reform
The Defense Department will convert thousands of contractor employees to full-time government employees and hire a large number of additional acquisition professionals to improve the way it purchases military products and systems, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.
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DNI, DOD launch secret spy satellite program
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed a classified memo March 30 that would establish a program to build a multi-billion dollar, next-generation spy satellite network, DOD Buzz reports.
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Senate panel approves Carter as DOD acquisition chief
The Senate Armed Services Committee on April 1 approved three Obama administration nominees to assume top posts at the Defense Department, according to media reports.
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March to consolidation
A decade of Army IT backroom network consolidation comes to fruition in the Global Network Enterprise Construct.
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Defense Security Services gets program assistance
CACI International will provide program management and support services to the Defense Department's Defense Security Services agency.
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Navy awards contract for energy harvesters
The Navy has awarded a small-business innovation research contract to MicroStrain to develop a technology that can power wireless sensors on its aircraft.
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Army hires contractor for global ISR support
The Army has awarded a $22 million contract to CACI International Inc. to furnish support services for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.
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Industry Recon
Raytheon unveils a troposcatter system, Lockheed Martin demonstrates a soldier exoskeleton, and General Dynamics introduces an all-weather laptop.
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JTRS: Networking the last tactical mile
Dennis Bauman, joint program executive officer for DOD’s Joint Tactical Radio System, discusses how the system will provide a powerful network for warfighters on the tactical edge of the battlefield.
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Tomorrow's network
The Air Force's vision for NetCents-2 is to establish a standards-based network infrastructure.
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Rifleman Radio offers combat lifeline
The first Rifleman Radios are scheduled to roll off the assembly line this July in a low rate of initial production, General Dynamics officials said.
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Soldier notebook serves as intelligence tool
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is continuing to push the development of the Tactical Ground Reporting system.
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The third collaboration button
Defense Information Systems Agency officials are laying the groundwork to develop a third collaboration platform that will incorporate and advance the most successful features of existing collaboration tools.
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DISA's path to enterprise services begins with e-mail
Defense Information Systems Agency officials think the path to ubiquitous network support for warfighters is in cloud computing.
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Unmanned vehicles break ranks
The new era of unmanned vehicles is redefining the nature of warfighting.
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Data packets
In a report, the Government Accountability Office outlines four key technology areas of the Army’s Future Combat Systems program that are still too immature to assure that they would be successful in the program’s current schedule.
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Unmanned aircraft get smarter
The refinement of unmanned aircraft used for surveillance and attack missions is resulting in systems that are faster, stealthier and smarter than their predecessors.
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GAO: Weapons programs still beset by cost overruns
A recent Government Accountability Office report reveals continuing high development costs and delays in many of the DOD’s major programs.
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Group questions drop in defense fraud cases
Despite a boom in defense contracting under the Bush administration, the number of fraud and corruption cases initiated by government investigators dropped substantially, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
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