Defense Systems

Army Corps of Engineers awards support contract

L-1 will provide the Army Corps of Engineers with software design, development, operations support and call center support.

Defense Systems

Army taps six to provide pRFID tech

The $75.5 million contract calls for the companies to provide passive radio frequency identification technology to the Army Product Manager for Joint-Automatic Identification Technology.

Defense Systems

SWATS to protect troops in combat zones

Soldier-Wearable Acoustic Targeting Systems is a member of QinetiQ’s Ears Gunshot Localization System family of products, developed to allow military personnel to respond to sniper fire immediately and accurately. The Army’s Rapid Equipping Force has put in its first large-scale order.

Defense Systems

Army chemical sensors to get upgrade

ICx Technologies is on tap for the upgrade under a contract potentially worth $711 million over seven years.

Defense Systems

Lt. Col. Geesey new head of MC4 product management office

Geesey will work with Defense Health Information Management System which develops electronic medical records and other health software systems.

Defense Systems

Army awards two modeling, simulation tasks

The two five-year task orders call for SAIC to provide modeling and simulation support to the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, Ala.

Defense Systems

Unified DOD messaging system closer

The entire Defense Department is now close to having a single solution for DMS communications, following a recent award by SPAWAR.

Defense Systems

Army gets new medical CIO

Lt. Col. Hon Pak was director of Advanced Information Technology Group.

Defense Systems

Army to receive SIPRNet support from L-3

The Army will receive personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision and other items and non-personal services for SIPRNet.

Defense Systems

Biometrics Task Force reveals 2009 research funding areas

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Defense Systems

MIDS-JTRS enters aircraft testing and integration phase

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has placed a $9.8 million order for pre-production sets of the next generation of aircraft radio terminals, based on the Joint Tactical Radio System software-defined radio and its waveforms.

Defense Systems

STRATCOM chief of staff gets nod for DISA directorship

Army Major General Carroll F. Pollett has been nominated for the directorship of the Defense Information Systems Agency, and command of Joint Task Force – Global Network Operations.

Defense Systems

Army business services work goes to Booz Allen

The contractor will help the Army National Guard simplify its business processes.

Defense Systems

TBI patients to be part of Army pilot text program

The Army is seeking to develop a text-messaging system to communicate with service members suffering from traumatic brain injury, which would help health care providers monitor patients as well as prompt them to take treatment actions.

Defense Systems

ITAA takes on how to protect controlled unclassified information

The Information Technology Association of America is developing a response to a Defense Department request for information on protecting CUIs.

Defense Systems

Army awards ICF training contract

The company will administer the Learning Education Training Services program for the Army’s Maryland Procurement Office.

Defense Systems

Via: C4ISR Development Army's top priority

Developing systems and capabilities for warfighters continues to be a priority for the Army, but working with industry to sustain existing systems will also receive new focus, Maj. Gen. Dennis Via said at the Army Team C4ISR 2008 Joint Symposium.

Defense Systems

New Land Warrior fighting system coming to a Stryker Brigade near you

The soldiers of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team will strap on a new, lighter version of the Land Warrior fighting system based on technology from General Dynamics C4 Systems.

Defense Systems

Army intelligence technologies advancement contract goes to Stanley

Stanley will assist the Futures Directorate, Headquarters, Army Intelligence and Security Command in the coordination of technology development.

Defense Systems

Battlespace awareness helps commanders hit targets

When Taliban insurgents nearly overran a U.S.-run outpost, air support was urgent and necessary. Military commanders in Afghanistan responded with 2,000-pound bombs, a Hellfire missile from an unmanned air system and other munitions. They monitored the battle on live video feeds by using the Persistent Surveillance and Dissemination System of Systems.