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Air Force awards deal to fix some Global Hawk software
The $16.2 million contract modification to Northrop Grumman is intended to correct deficiencies in ground station software.
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Bill would mandate a streamlined satellite program
An amendment to the Senate intel bill would put into law what the military has been trying to do anyway.
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ARL scientist zooms in on a better way to search confiscated images
A new interface for DARPA's Visual Media Reasoning system spares Intelligence Community analysts a lot of time and frustration.
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Military establishes space-focused center to counter China, Russia
The Air Force and Rand Corp. have established the China Aerospace Studies Institute to focus on the persistent threat China and Russia poses to U.S. technological and military superiority.
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Army awards contract for WIN-T Increment 2
The Army has awarded General Dynamics $219 million for full-rate production of systems for its battlefield network.
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Navy awards $60.9M deal for maritime drone program
Northrop Grumman will supply support for its BAM-D Global Hawk.
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Airborne 'stealth launch' of CubeSat said to be underway
DARPA and the Air Force are readying a program to launch small, inexpensive satellites on short notice.
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Navy awards a second $478.6M contract for joint tactical radios
The award to Data Links Solutions, identical to the recent deal to ViaSat, brings the total committed to MIDS JTRS terminals to nearly a billion dollars.
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Army tests giving ground forces control of Gray Eagle payload
The tests of the One System Remote Video Terminal are part of a long-range plan to improve UAS interoperability.
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Air Force awards $145.4M to keep BACN flying
Northrop Grumman will continue to support the system that lets Global Hawks act as all-purpose, around-the-clock communications nodes.
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DARPA wants to put real-time links into tiny satellites
The Pentagon’s research arm is looking for lightweight and low-power communications links for CubeSats.
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Air Force looking for low-cost, disposable attack drones
By relaxing its usual requirements, the service is hoping to make UAS inexpensive enough so that their loss could be "tolerated."
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Army gets OK for next stage of tactical network
Increment 2 of the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical, being built by General Dynamics, will go into full-rate production.
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Army tests satellite-independent battlefield radio
The service has developed a method for improved communications without the need for satellites by using vehicle-mounted, high-bandwidth networking radios.
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NATO gets its first AGS surveillance aircraft
Northrop Grumman and its industry partners deliver the first of five UAS that will be part of a system-of-systems ISR capability.
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Navy's third high-bandwidth satellite ready for duty
MUOS-3 expands coverage to about three-quarters of the globe; the fourth and final satellite is expected to be launched later this year.
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ISIS fallout: Satellite intel contract hits its ceiling 3 years early
DISA's contracting organization raises the ceiling on a $286.5 million deal for intelligence services while it makes plans to re-compete the contract.
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The elements of a lighter, faster command post of the future
The Army is adapting commercial technologies to make its deployed communications hubs easier to ship, set up, tear down and use.
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Mabus says delays are hurting UCLASS development
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus voiced some frustration over the delays in the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike program, which Congress wants to focus more on strike capabilities.
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