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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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Navy begins test of tube-launched UAV
A Navy rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle designed to be fired from a sonobuoy launch tube will enter what is planned to be a final phase of testing under a $10.5 million contract award to Lite Machines, of West Lafayette, Ind.
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All solutions go
After three years of wrangling, Defense Department and civilian agencies are finally digging into the Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contract.
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The digitized battlefield
If survivability is the major goal of any system designed to be carried by soldiers into combat, the Army’s Land Warrior system has demonstrated its qualifications.
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Land Warrior Systems
15-month deployment of 240 units ended spring 2008. Next-generation deployment of 1,000 units due for early 2009.
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Interview with Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson
Army CIO Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson spoke with Defense Systems contributing editor Barry Rosenberg about some of the challenges he’s tackling.
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ICS Is the heart of the future
The core of the Army’s Future Combat Systems, the networked hub of Land Warrior, and the rest of the digitally enhanced warfighter systems are elements of computer systems built largely with commercial components.
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Army studies biofuel cells for sensors
The Army is investigating whether a new type of fuel cell that uses biologically active enzymes as a catalyst could provide a longer-lasting power source for unattended ground sensors.
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