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Smart-phone apps head to battle zones
Spurred by the Army's smart-phone plans, scores of sophisticated mobile apps, many designed for use in battlefield conditions, have arrived in recent months.
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Army to take Afghanistan fight to the Web
The Army is looking for a new type of soldier -- one that can take the fight in Afghanistan to the World Wide Web.
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New Army lab will speed up radio testing
New testing laboratory will put radios through realistic evaluations to judge their technical maturity.
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Army to field-test cognitive radios at NIE
The Army is testing a technology that may eliminate the need to manually set frequencies for military operations.
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Army chooses winners in battle of the virtual worlds
One of the winners named in the Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge is NonKin Village, in which trainers can create a virtual foreign village to help U.S. troops explore interactions with people of other cultures.
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Senior Army acquisition official resigns
Michael O'Neill abruptly resigned from his position as assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition.
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Dempsey says military must adjust to viral reality
President Obama's nominee for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said June 1 that U.S. armed forces must be able to adapt to viral events such as the so-called Arab Spring.
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Subcommittee puts Emarss in a funding tailspin
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has proposed cutting $524 million from a key manned aerial reconnaissance program operated by the Army.
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Army readies on-demand imagery tool for battlefield use
The Army will deploy this summer in-theater DARPA's Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team system to enable soldiers to download on-demand video from the service's aircraft onto mobile computing devices.
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Army to fuse aerial intell into common ops view
MUSIC will bring together manned and unmanned aircraft systems to share a visual operational picture among pilots, UAS operators and troops on the ground.
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Dempsey's low-key style good sell for JCS role
President Obama's appointment of Army Gen. Martin Dempsey May 30 to serve as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wraps up a major reshuffling of his administration's national security team.
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Giant airships would keep longer watch over troops
The Army has partnered with contractors to develop giant airships with advanced surveillance capabilities -- one of which boasts the ability to stay aloft for as long as three weeks at a time.
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Is the Army trading its robots for mules?
Pack-bearing robots aren't working out in tests, so the Army is considering a return to a proven older method of the four-legged variety.
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Army eager to learn lessons from upcoming battlefield tests
Field evaluations will set the stage for the planned deployment of the Army's long-awaited software-defined radios, mobile tactical communications and networking systems.
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Army field evaluations to include battle phones
The Army plans to put its prototype operating system of a smart phone known as the Joint Battle Command-Platform to test during the upcoming Network Evaluation Integration at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.
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Chiarelli/Lawrence push Army to redouble efforts to achieve network flexibility
The Army must have a network that is flexible enough to meet constantly changing requirements and emerging technologies, officials say.
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Defense cuts may motivate branches to work together on IT
The need to be more efficient and innovative could lead to improved cybersecurity and information sharing across DOD, officials said.
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Army enterprise e-mail faces sharp funding dropoff
A House subcommittee hesitates to fund e-mail migration until the Army shows its homework.
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Military follows commercial lead in immersive tech
The defense industry is doing its best to try to keep up with immersive, interactive technology developments in the commercial home entertainment industry that are happening at an extremely rapid pace.
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