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Military airship programs plagued by wide range of problems
The Defense Department has invested more than $1 billion in at least nine airship programs across the military services in an effort to provide persistent surveillance to ground troops, but so far has almost nothing to show in operational airships.
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Army gets helping hand with cloud architecture
Quality Business Engineering will provide cloud computing architecture and engineering services to the service during an 18-month award.
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Army cyber pros pitch in with network evaluation
The Army Cyber Command maintains a team of specialists to help review and test equipment for network vulnerabilities at the service's Network Integration Evaluation.
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Army moves to enterprise progressing, but not without challenges
The Army is looking to life beyond BlackBerry, and possibly beyond separate network classifications.
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Ground sensors play key role in battlefield snooping
New efforts seek to fuse systems for faster force reaction, greater situational awareness
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Army purchases Puma small UAS for units in Afghanistan
The Army has awarded a $20.4 million contract to AeroVironment to furnish its RQ-20A Puma small unmanned aircraft systems for use as a surveillance platform in Afghanistan.
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Army to close the 'gap' on intel training
A new contract awarded to Lockheed will ensure soldiers receive instruction in a variety of analytical and operational disciplines.
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Army invites contractors to NIE industry day
The U.S. Army will host a Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) Industry Observation Day on June 1 at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, N.M.
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Flynn nominated to head Defense Intelligence Agency
Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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Army's newest insignia reflects critical nature of EW
The Army has chosen golden yellow and black as the colors for the collar insignia and shoulder straps of its new Electronic Warfare warrant officers and noncommissioned officers designations.
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Army event to focus on battlefield network improvements
The Army will assess capabilities and emerging C4ISR technologies that it will need for battlefield networks in the immediate years ahead during an upcoming event at Fort Dix, N.J.
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Enhanced sensor systems to help Army shed light in the darkness
The Army has named five winners of $1.8 billion in contract awards for its Warrior Enabling Broad Sensor program.
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Army awards unattended ground sensor contract
The Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to furnish Scorpion I and II unattended ground sensor systems for force protection and intelligence gathering purposes.
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Army won't rush into cargo-carrying UAV buy
Despite the Marines Corps' forward march on cargo-carrying unmanned aircraft in Afghanistan, the Army seems to be taking its time. So what's the hold up?
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Encryption takes on a whole new meaning with smart phones
Army and Marines have to reconcile various classifications for encrypted data.
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New details emerge on Army cloud initiative
The scope of work that nine companies will provide under the Army's Area Processing Centers Army Private Cloud program include furnishing the Army with "mobile data center" services and even cybersecurity assistance as part of a grand strategy to help the military service scale back its data-center footprint.
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Raven tactical UAV to get sensor boost
Aerovironment's Raven RQ-11B unmanned aerial vehicle will get a new miniature, gimbaled sensor payload that will give warfighters better situational awareness via higher visual fidelity and continuous observation of an item of interest.
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Blue Devil Block 2 airship has friends in high places
A pair of influential U.S. senators are upset about Air Force plans to cut the 370-foot-long Blue Devil Block 2 airship program and have informed the Defense Department that they believe it would be "a significant failure to stop work and not deploy" the platform to Afghanistan.
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Cloud migration requires well-mapped acquisition strategy, panel says
A successful cloud migration requires careful planning and risk assessment to succeed, according to a FOSE panel.
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