Defense Systems

Federated architecture from the ground up

Although many DOD officials agree that a federated enterprise architecture is a good idea, they must first decide what approach to take.

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The right stuff for cyber warfare

In a press meeting at the LandWarNet 2008 conference in August, Gen. Kevin Chilton, Air Force commander of the Strategic Command, spoke about the structure of U.S. cyber operations and his priorities for the workforce and technology.

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Data Packets

Navy brings NGEN requirements to industry; C4ISR news; and priority No. 1 at the Air Force

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Navy offers more insight into NGEN

The Navy this week gave more details about the schedule for awarding its massive enterprise network system.

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Navy endeavors to reduce energy consumption

The Navy, with assistance from EDS Corp., plans to consolidate the 2,700 physical servers that power NMCI to reduce energy consumption and space requirements.

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Alion lands Navy ship deal

The company will manage the design and acquisition of a new surface ship under a $127.8 million contract.

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Navy warfare center lands C4ISR support

QinetiQ’s Systems Engineering Group will assist the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego’s command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs through the $206 million contract.

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Navy employee stole some $120K in computer equipment

While no secret technological information was taken, private information from 14 employees and contractors who worked at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory had been found on CDs or zip drives.

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Virtual Perimeter Monitoring System support contract awarded

3e Technologies International Inc. will provide surveillance and physical detection technology to the Navy and the Transportation Security Administration the contract.

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Navy outsources training center support

General Dynamics Corp. will support training programs designed for the Navy and other DOD agencies, which are overseen by the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center.

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Navy, Alion team to develop helicopter training technology

Alion will assist the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando, Fla., in developing Mission Rehearsal Tactical Team Trainer technologies for the Navy’s SH-60B and SH-60F helicopters.

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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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Navy awards contract for Tactical Data Link Systems

SAIC will support the Navy’s Tactical Data Link Systems, including the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, the Command and Control Processor Subsystem, the Tactical Digital Data Information Link and the Common Data Link Management System.

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Navy to compete Distributed Common Ground System–Navy contract

Navy officials said they are planning a limited competition, based on security restrictions, for the DCGS-N Prime Mission Product contract.

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MIDS-JTRS enters aircraft testing and integration phase

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center has placed a $9.8 million order for pre-production sets of the next generation of aircraft radio terminals, based on the Joint Tactical Radio System software-defined radio and its waveforms.

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Navy awards continuing contract for CNI support

Under the contract, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will continue to provide engineering, design and integrated logistics services in support of the Common Network Interface program.

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Navy seeks white papers, proposals for C4ISR

White papers and full proposals detailing research and prototype development as it relates to net-centric command operations are due by Sept. 16, 2009.

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Navy awards training contract to Raytheon

The contract calls for Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC to assist the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center.

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Navy helicopter data link system to be built by Harris

The $53 million award calls for Harris to build the Ku-band Common Data Link Hawklink system for the Navy’s Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System helicopter.

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Navy unveils NGEN requirements

Navy holds industry day to issue NMCI NGEN Requirements.