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Recruiting technology goes cutting edge
To interest new recruits, the Army has experimented with new technologies and even built a 14,500-square-foot facility that opened last summer, which resembles an Apple store or video arcade more than a military recruiting station.
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TRANSCOM marches on with DPS
Defense Personal Property System is the automated, end-to-end management system for movement of household goods for members of the armed services and Defense Department civilians that automates much of the process of pre-move counseling, scheduling, tracking, invoicing and claims-filing for household goods shipments.
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Gerin: Army must streamline contracting
Improving and streamlining contracting are among the initiatives the Army plans to focus on moving forward, Army Secretary Pete Gerin said at a Nov. 18 event.
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Army, Marines task SAIC with network planning
The Joint Network Management System contract from the Army’s Office of the Project Manager - Current Force calls for SAIC to provide network planning and software support services.
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COTM device to give Army units better situational awareness
The device includes a satellite communications hub and two satellite COTM systems that will be installed on Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles.
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Army puts FCS network through paces in demo
C4ISR On the Move testbed shows Future Combat Systems prototypes in action.
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Special Report: DCGS Integration Backbone forges joint ISR ground
The technology provides a common ground picture for the services' ISR platforms.
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Joint training for joint ISR
After the Army criticized the Air Force for not being responsive enough to its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance needs, the Army established in 2007 its own aviation unit in Iraq.
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Northrop disputes Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program award
Among its criticisms, Northrop Grumman said its design cost significantly less than that of its competitors, a factor it said was not given sufficient consideration.
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AMC blazes trail for Lean Six Sigma in DOD
The Army Materiel Command is breaking trail for the mandated process improvement system, which advocates say has universal applicability. However, critics warn it can inadvertently limit an organization’s ability to respond to changing circumstances.
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Army disputes GAO take on protests
The Army is concerned that GAO’s position — that contractors now can protest an agency’s decision under the fiscal 2008 National Defense Authorization Act — will “effectively graft the Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 15 requirements” onto the task order process, according to the decision document.
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Army Central Command to receive assistance
The award calls for SAIC to assist the Central Command’s Directorate of Command and Control, Communications and Computers, primarily at command headquarters in Tampa, Fla.
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Medical Research and Materiel Command awards grant
The $100,000 grant from the Army enables Teksouth Corp. to study ways that data in electronic health records could be structured to improve the analysis of disease and population health trends in the military.
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Failing to protect data may risk battlefield strategies
Controlled but unclassified data is leaking to the public from DOD Web sites, defense contractors and other sources, and causing increasing concern.
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Army to get automated biometrics toolset
The Army’s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems awarded the one-year contract under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services program.
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The right stuff for cyber warfare
In a press meeting at the LandWarNet 2008 conference in August, Gen. Kevin Chilton, Air Force commander of the Strategic Command, spoke about the structure of U.S. cyber operations and his priorities for the workforce and technology.
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Network backbone unleashed
Army deploys first stage of Warfighter Information Network- Tactical program in its march toward net-centric battlefield communications
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