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Navy Fire Scout crashes during Libya operations
A U.S. unmanned helicopter crashed June 21 while undertaking a reconnaissance mission as part of NATO's continuing air campaign against Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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Navy's cyber unit scans horizon for new challenges
The Navy's Fleet Cyber Command/10th Fleet is looking beyond situational awareness to new challenges.
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Info dominance vital to the 'kill chain,' Navy intell czar says
Vice Adm. Kendall L. Card, director of Naval Intelligence and deputy chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, discusses how the Navy is improving its electronic warfare and cyber capabilities as it prepares to face current and future challenges.
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Navy lab seeks wide-area surveillance system
The Office of Naval Research is seeking an autonomous persistent tactical surveillance system that will be able to link intelligence data collected from reconnaissance and surveillance systems into the command-and-control systems used by small tactical units communicating with their headquarters.
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Soldier Radio Waveform passes lab test for interoperability
Military test engineers have successfully completed the testing in a laboratory setting of the Soldier Radio Waveform to communicate real-time data across waveforms installed on radio platforms from multiple vendors, announced the Joint Program Executive Officer for the Joint Tactical Radio System.
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Navy goes full speed ahead with next-gen IT projects
The Navy is making progress with its two major IT consolidation programs, CANES and NGEN, but will face significant challenges, according to officials.
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Navy walks tightrope in downsizing environment
Under Secretary of the Navy Robert Work says that the upcoming military draw down must be done right because it will have a long-term repercussions on U.S. forces.
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Navy must get creative -- and critical -- to be efficient
Reaching the Navy's efficiency goals is impossible without changing how the service is doing things now, according to CIO Terry Halvorsen, speaking at AFCEA's Naval IT Day.
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Navy needs a way to handle UAV, sensor data
With threats on the rise and manpower decreasing due to budget cuts, the key to the Navy's data challenge lies within implementation of proper procedures of tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination (TCPED), according to a official at the AFCEA Naval IT Day.
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Navy views network infrastructure as vital combat component
Navy Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert talks about the service's priorities for cyber operations, acquisition of IT systems.
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Navy rolls out regional cybersecurity centers
New naval regional cybersecurity components will support broader Navy Fleet Cyber Command efforts as the Navy takes on a myriad of network-related challenges.
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SPAWAR Atlantic gets tech tools to battlefields
SSC Atlantic's director discusses how the command has helped deploy and integrate new technologies.
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Navy leaders to share program strategies at IT Day
The AFCEA-NOVA Chapter will host its 10th Annual Naval IT Day on June 9, and Defense Systems staff members will be on hand to provide comprehensive coverage of the event.
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Cobra Judy Replacement ship fails Navy inspection
The Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey found multiple inconsistencies with the ship slated to replace the current Cobra Judy System, which is scheduled for decommission in 2012.
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Navy, Marines pursue strategies to fuse intell capabilities
Two recent Navy and Marine Corps reviews are producing new strategies for intelligence and command and control.
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Navy has some clever ideas for future robots
While the Navy has not been as gung-ho about robots as the Army and Air Force, it certainly envisions a greater role for robots in its future fleets and capabilities, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said May 17 at the Ocean Tech Expo in Newport, R.I.
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Was a stealth Chinook used in bin Laden raid, too?
It might be possible that a stealth MH-47 Chinook chopper, treated to reduce noise, infrared signals and radar, was used in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound in addition to the modified Blackhawks.
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Navy to reconfigure 8 Fire Scouts bought from Army
Purchased from the Army, the Navy wants to have the unmanned helos up in the air by 2013.
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Calling all gamers: Navy to crowdsource piracy problem
The Navy is turning to crowdsourcing in an attempt to generate fresh ideas for how to combat piracy on the high seas.
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