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Common sub radio room buzzes on the horizon
The Navy’s Common Submarine Radio Room (CSRR) appears to be moving full speed ahead. With interoperability tests completed for two classes of the fleet’s submarines and a third under way, the automated communications system has been designated as operationally ready for the submarine fleet.
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Key elements of global defense
Current plans for a U.S. missile defense system include airborne lasers and other systems but will rely primarily on three systems that are either brand new or still in development.
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JTRS breach is a technicality
Reports of recent and sudden cost overruns by the military’s Joint Tactical Radio Program are inaccurate, officials from the JTRS joint program executive office said.
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The need for speed
As DOD deploys faster IP networks, high-speed encryption solutions will keep pace
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Partnerships flourish for Armys FCS program
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — Army vehicles are no longer simply a way to move troops, weapons and supplies. Under the Future Combat Systems program, vehicles are now sensors in a networked battlefield.
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DOD uses RFID for logistics tracking
Radio frequency identification is already established in the realm of defense logistics, helping to keep tabs on the mountains of materiel moved through the military services’ supply chain. But RFID applications are also moving beyond those needed for supply chain visibility.
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Blue force blues
U.S., allies try to reduce fratricide with improved coalition combat identification.
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Marines try plug and play SIM
The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab looks to simulation to help build warfighting skills
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Fighter helmet provides 'see-through' display
Using a helmet-mounted display that projects computer-createdsymbols directly on the helmet’s visor, F-35 pilots will also be ableto see a 360-degree infrared image of the ground beneath them duringnight flights.
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Army tests solar
The Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center runs two solar projects that emphasize soldier-portable systems.
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Rough seas ahead for usv
Unmanned surface vehicles might be the Navy’s future, but they have obstacles to overcome.
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Congress wants closer eye on threats in orbit.
Almost a year after China used anti-satellite technology to explode the Fengyun 1C, its own weather satellite, Congress chose to up the ante on satellite protection.
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Serving those who served
Serving those who served-Hire a Hero uses social networking to help veterans
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Standard for unmanned systems..
One such set of standards is specified in the Navy’s Unmanned Surface Vehicle Master Plan: the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems which specifies data formats and communication methods for unmanned systems.
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Swarms of small satellites could provide the edge
If DARPA has anything to do with it, the U.S. military’s space future will be built around small, fast and agile satellite systems rather than the big, slow and ponderous systems it now relies on.
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Following the Sun
The defense sector explores solar energy as a way to power field operations.
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