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AF IT Day: Lt. Gen. Basla says operational rules on horizon
The Air Force needs to work out what its missions and responsibilities are in cyberspace, a top service official said Oct. 11.
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Air Force launches third GPS Block IIF satellite
The Air Force successfully launched the third Global Positioning System IIF satellite on Oct. 4 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV-Medium rocket, the service said.
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Air Force wants better knowledge of high-altitude airborne LIDAR capabilities
The Air Force is seeking white papers that would help it determine the capabilities of industry to produce Airborne Light Detection and Ranging systems and products and determine a forward path for expanded use of the technology in tactical and strategic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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AF to base first 'Space Fence' facility in Pacific
The Air Force will establish a Space Fence radar site on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands that will begin operating in fiscal 2017.
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Northrop wins Air Force contract for airborne comms node
The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract modification to add beyond-line-of-sight command and control capabilities to the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node information gateway system.
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Air Force plans robust competition for small launches
The Air Force has decided that all of the bidders that applied for the Orbital/Suborbital Program-3 contract will be eligible to compete.
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Intel community must find more efficient ways to process data, says ISR chief
The entire intelligence community needs to find more efficient methods to process ISR data into decision-making information for joint warfighters, says Lt. Gen. Larry James.
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Next-gen GPS III satellites undergo first readiness test
The contractors that will deliver the Air Force’s next generation GPS III satellites report that they have finished the first launch readiness exercise on the road to achieving launch availability in 2014, Lockheed Martin said in a Sept. 5 news release.
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Cyber Command inches closer to unified command
The U.S. Cyber Command might become a unified combatant command in the foreseeable future.
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Air Force steps up cyber weapons development
The Air Force has issued a request for proposals for assistance with cyber weapons.
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Air Force presses surveillance satellite into full service
The Air Force said Aug. 20 that it would begin operational use of a new Boeing surveillance satellite designed to track debris and other satellites in space.
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Air Force adds UAVs to combat exercises
The Air Force has added MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles to its top combat exercise as it prepares to experiment with news ways to conduct air campaigns in future years in contested air space.
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Air Force wants smart software for ISR analysis
The Air Force wants software that can help analysts identify targets from an unconnected patchwork of high-and-low resolution imagery data.
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Military services mull future of large UAVs
For manufacturers of large unmanned aerial vehicles, there was only a hazy picture of what direction that market will take at the recent Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International's Unmanned Systems North America 2012 conference.
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Air Force consolidates cyber/IT operations to improve performance
Maj. Gen. Craig Olson, PEO, Air Force Business and Enterprise Systems, on transition of the BES portfolio to his successor, and his new position as head of the Air Force's Command, Control and Communications Information and Networks program executive office.
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Air Force plans acquisition shakeup post-Afghanistan
Noting that some of the key Air Force systems used over Iraq and Afghanistan would be vulnerable in a hotly contested environment such as the Pacific theater, the military service is focusing on acquiring more stealthy aircraft systems in the months and years ahead.
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Air Force wants collision-avoidance technology for drones
The Air Force is seeking information on industry qualifications and capability concepts as a precursor to issuing a request for proposals for its Airborne Sense and Avoid Program for unmanned aircraft.
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AF Weapons School grads part of military's cyber elite
In June a half dozen airmen graduated from a cyber warfare course taught by the Air Force's elite Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base.
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AF extends airborne comms relay program in Afghanistan
The Air Force on June 27 awarded a $782 million sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman to continue supporting a key airborne communications relay system in Afghanistan through September 2015.
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