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Network strategy helps Army cross budget minefield
The Army's Network Integration Evaluation is modernizing the way the Army develops, acquires and fields technology, and is also helping it maneuver austere budget conditions.
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Army PEO Integration shifts, creates new command
The Army is creating a new command, the Director, System of Systems Integration, to manage new technologies and the Army's Network Integration Evaluation exercises.
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Army must balance tech upgrades with shrinking budgets: Price
The Army must juggle its aggressive efforts in network integration and modernization and also deal with constricting budgets, said Brig. Gen. N. Lee S. Price.
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US, South Korean exercise finds glitch in intell software
U.S. and South Korean military intelligence analysts experienced repeated problems when the Distributed Common Ground System-Army went offline recently during a training exercise.
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Unmanned, manned aircraft harmonize at Army demo
The Army exercise showcased data sharing and control capabilities between unmanned, manned and ground systems.
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Army to deploy enterprisewide logistics sytem
The Global Combat Support System, one of DOD's largest ERP deployments, would allow soldiers to track deliveries of vital supplies to the battlefield.
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Army makes strides in data center consolidation
The Army IT Agency is touting its major efforts to reduce servers and energy consumption.
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Army to dedicate new C4ISR center at Aberdeen
The Aberdeen Proving Ground will hold back-to-back ceremonies Sept. 15 to mark the completion of the transfer of 11 organizations to the facility as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process and also the establishment of the C4ISR Materiel Center of Excellence at the proving ground.
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Cyber domination requires joint mindset
It's been more than a year since the Defense Department established its cyber components, but they all still must overcome one key challenge: their own traditional structures.
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Unmanned aerostats furnish vital geospatial intelligence
The Army is receiving vital intelligence from tethered aerostats with reconfigurable sensor payloads that can stay aloft for weeks or months.
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Army Signal Corps marches efficiently into the 21st century
The Army Signal Corps is upgrading its training, equipment and roles to support cyberspace operations and get away from its draft-era mentality.
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Better image tagging improves warfighter situational awareness
As networking makes all types of data readily available to warfighters, technical planners are continuing to enhance techniques to make sure warfighters can find the files they need.
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Army to issue ITES-3H RFP in 2012
The 10-year, $5 billion Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 Hardware contract will support the Army's requirements for commercial hardware and more.
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Army's Prophet Enhanced system offers mobile intell
The Army's intelligence arm is building combat muscle as the service readies to expand the mobile Prophet Enhanced ground signals intelligence system that it says is proving vital through its flexibility and mobility on the battlefield.
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Army aims for optimum quality control of geospatial products
The Army Geospatial Center is helping DOD improve stewardship of geospatial products, says Joseph Fontanella, the center's director.
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Army taps General Dynamics for tactical IT hardware
Common Hardware Systems-4 contract will standardize Army procurement of tactical IT systems and services.
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Military strives to lighten the load of comms gear
The military has multiple strategies for reducing the size, weight and power of warfighter communications equipment.
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Army to hold large-scale manned-unmanned air system demo
The Army will hold the largest demonstration to date of manned and unmanned aircraft systems interoperability Sept. 15 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
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Harris gets order for WIN-T highband networking radios
Harris Corp. will supply more than 100 highband networking radio systems for the Army's Warfighter Information Network Tactical Increment 2 under a $16 million follow-on contract from Lockheed Martin Corp.
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