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iRobot 310 gives soldiers safe access to danger zones
iRobot has won a new contract from the Army’s Robotic Systems Joint Program Office to furnish its 310 small unmanned ground vehicle designed to assist soldiers, combat engineers and explosive ordnance disposal crews on dismounted operations.
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Army, Northrop partner to upgrade joint tactical ground station
Northrop Grumman has won a $31.2 million contract from the Army to modernize the Joint Tactical Ground Station to improve the missile defense capabilities.
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Army extends ManTech's work on DCGS-A
ManTech International has won a $45 million task order to continue furnishing key services for the Army's primary system for processing and sharing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data gathered from manned and unmanned sensor platforms.
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Army works to develop tactical smart grid
The Army has conducted a proof of concept for a smart grid that might support future tactical operations in a much more efficient manner than is currently done, according to an Army news story.
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Network validation effort sets stage for Army’s upcoming NIE 13.1
It’s no easy task getting the communications equipment on hundreds of vehicles ready for the Army’s semiannual Network Integration Evaluation.
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Raytheon gets $164M Army contract for AEHF tactical terminals
The Army has awarded a three-year, $164 million contract to Raytheon to deliver ground terminals for Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite communications.
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Army awards $7B contract to 12 for software/systems engineering work
The Army has awarded indefinite-delivery, indefinited-quantity contracts to 12 large systems integrators to compete for upwards of $7 billion in software and systems engineering services work.
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First Army Gray Eagle UAV flight from home base scheduled
Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan., are preparing to launch the Army's largest unmanned aircraft system in an inaugural flight from their home base on Oct. 10.
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DOD takes entrepreneurial approach to tactical radios/waveforms
The Defense Department’s 15-year, multibillion-dollar effort to build new, standard tactical communications networks is shifting to a more entrepreneurial approach, filling the need for mobile waveform technologies with commercially available solutions.
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Army awards contract for secure smart phone technologies
The Army has awarded TT Government Solutions a contract to help it develop secure smart phone technologies.
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Army prepares to field WIN-T Increment 2
The Army has received approval from the Defense Acquisition Board to proceed with limited production and fielding of the second increment of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) system.
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Plethora of communications options compound challenges at the tactical edge
The quest for comprehensive situational awareness leads to a burgeoning array of communications technologies.
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Distributed common ground system comes under fire
The Army Test and Evaluation Command finds that the services’ integrated ISR system is flawed, with each service confronting its own set of challenges.
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Why network modernization must remain funded
Excessive reductions in modernization leave the Army unprepared for the next war.
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UAS imagery can have more tactical value when viewed on mobile devices
Smart phones and tablets are emerging as essential UAS imagery viewing platforms.
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Army PEO C3T managing tactical comms at the terrestrial, aerial and celestial tiers
MG N. Lee Price, Army program executive officer for command, control, communications (Tactical), on the challenges of managing tactical communications at the terrestrial, aerial and celestial tiers
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Sharing intel between echelons key challenge for Army Geospatial Center
Joseph Fontanella, director of the U.S. Army Geospatial Center, on the challenge of sharing geospatial intelligence between echelons.
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Army seeks bids for mega ITES-3 hardware contract
The Army has announced that it is accepting proposals from companies that want to win a spot on its next-generation $5 billion IT Enterprise Solutions 3 Hardware (ITES-3H) acquisition program.
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Army establishes standard for geospatial data storage
The Army is working to establish a data content standard for geospatial-intelligence used by ground forces that would improve management and sharing of featured data generated by intelligence agencies, the Army, and the Marine Corps.
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