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Air Force to reorganize test centers
Moving personnel will more effectively integrate cyber concerns with testing and evaluation of weapons systems, Air Force officials say.
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Targeting trouble in tough terrain
Systems seek to nail down mortars and sniper threats in the difficult terrain of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Air Force issues software pre-solicitation
The Air Force is seeking software to be used by the Global Cyberspace Integration Center to help test command and control, and cyber systems.
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Navy adjusts schedule for maritime surveillance UAS
The Navy has made minor adjustments to its development schedule for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance unmanned aerial system.
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Marines draw up wish list for UAS
The Marine Corps wants to expand the capabilities of two unmanned aerial systems still in the early stages of planning.
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Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center tech deal awarded
L-3 Communications Corp. will furnish advanced technologies and other support services to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic under a contract potentially work $87.4 million.
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Army retrofits Shadow UAVs with laser targeting
The retrofit kits for the Shadow UAS will add weapons targeting capabilities to its existing electro-optic and infrared surveillance capabilities.
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Army brings real-time weather to artillery targeting
The Meteorological Measuring Set Profiler will give Army artillerymen a 'nowcast' of weather at target locations by integrating data from multiple sources.
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Opinion: C4 interop with NGOs key to future Navy ops
The Navy’s new maritime strategy places improving integration and interoperability as priority one; not only among its fellow DOD services, but also international organizations.
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Air Force restructures TSAT program
Officials are reworking the controversial Transformational Satellite Communications program contract, which will delay the launch of satellites until 2019.
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C4ISR Contract Watch: Navy awards contracts for F/A-18 computers, CEC production
The Navy issues two contract awards, to General Dynamics and Raytheon business units.
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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.
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NECC forges joint command and control with SOA
The Defense Department aims to establish a new C2 environment that will offer a less expensive way to develop C2 capabilities, a faster way to deliver them to warfighters, and a more flexible way for users to shape them to their needs. In that environment, DOD could rapidly deploy forces to respond to conflicts.
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DCGS coming to NetCents
The Distributed Common Ground System is a family of programs with common elements designed to meet the military services’ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance needs.
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NECC the sum of its parts
The Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC) will replace the Global Command and Control System (GCSS) family of services, which includes GCCS-Joint, GCCS-Army, GCCS-Maritime and the GCCS-Air Force.
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CACI will develop simulation software for Army training
CACI International Inc. will develop software simulations for the Army’s use in troop training under a three-year, $36 million contract.
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Two win Navy C4ISR systems work
Analex Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. have won three-year contracts to perform command and control life cycle support services for a programs office of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego.
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