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Army selects provider to support logistics C2 system
Raytheon Co. will provide logistics support for the Army’s Battle Command Sustainment Support System under a three-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that could be worth as much as $90 million if all options are exercised.
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Army combat support system takes next big step
The Global Combat Support System-Army tests an integrated enterprise resource planning logistics system aimed at pulling 10 independent financial and logistics systems together.
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Army builds major biometrics repository
Army Col. Ted Jennings, project manager for DOD biometrics, discusses the challenges of building a central repository and ways biometrics are being used to protect local populations and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Android, iPhone platforms dominate Apps for Army
The Apps for Army challenge not only demonstrated a new model for dealing with the military’s notoriously cumbersome acquisition process. It also demonstrated the growing momentum Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating systems are gaining inside military networks.
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Chiarelli: Network must cover more than the battlefield
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli tells LandWarNet conference that Army's network vision must be expansive.
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Army becomes net dependent, CIO says
The Army has realized that the network is its primary resource, and traditional weapons systems are fading in prominence, CIO says.
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Lockheed awarded WIN-T transmission subsystems work
General Dynamics Corp. has awarded partner Lockheed Martin Corp. a $71 million contract to provide communications hardware and equipment for the transmission subsystem as part of their work on the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 project.
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Army moves closer to private cloud with release of RFP
Private cloud plan key to reducing data centers, and also aims save money and energy while beefing up cybersecurity.
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Apps for Army winners revealed
Apps for Army competition yields winners that address physical training, mental health, disaster relief, mapping and recruiting.
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Cobham delivers digital intercoms for Army vehicles
Cobham Defense Communications has gotten $26 million in contracts from Northrop Grumman Corp. to provide digital vehicular intercom systems that will be used on wheeled and tracked Army vehicles.
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Army exercises display future of battlefield communications
Proof-of-concept exercises at the White Sands Missile Range show progress of integrated and joint radio programs and an associated aerial network layer.
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Army picks contractor for key communications upgrades
The Army has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology $21.4 million in task orders to upgrade voice telecommunications switching capabilities at two key facilities as part of the ongoing convergence of voice and data network capabilities.
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Forward march: Army e-mail overhaul still a go
Army CIO Jeffrey Sorenson is working with the Defense Information Systems Agency to get enterprise e-mail off the ground.
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Forward march: Army e-mail overhaul still a go
Army CIO Jeffrey Sorenson is working with the Defense Information Systems Agency to get enterprise e-mail off the ground.
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DOD moves to shift $3.9B to pressing wartime needs
Defense Department planners want to shift a significant chunk of funding away from programs that are struggling or of low priority to more pressing needs to support the war effort in Afghanistan, reports Kate Brannan at Defense News.
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Army looks to sensors for faster fire support
The Army recently demonstrated that a network of sensors can coordinate precision fire support to sharply reduce the time it takes to acquire and engage enemy targets.
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Virtual simulations help hone survival skills
Military leaders, industry officials and academics are working together to develop simulated environments that can help soldiers reduce the threat posed by improvised explosive devices.
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WIN-T gears up to deliver on-the-move comms
Army Col. William Hoppe, project manager for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical network, talks about his observations on tactical communications needs in Afghanistan and about the latest developments in satellite communications and on-the-move communications.
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Army expands global infrastructure to better assist soldiers
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, Army CIO, spoke recently with Defense Systems about the second Network Service Center Operational Evaluation, the Apps for the Army program and several pressing issues related to extending global networking capabilities.
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